The old guest bedroom - much improved.
Mish designed the metal frames and had them made in the city. The shelves are cheese boards from Gouda. We saw them about two years ago in New Plymouth and thought, bookshelves! And here they are.
It took our builders a few hours to navigate the frames in and get them solidly anchored to each other and onto set points on both walls, and then to thread those long wide boards boards carefully in from acute angles.
They were immediately decorated with books that were lying around the house, and toasted. It's exactly as the designer planned it.
Then we began to trek the book boxes in from the garage. First draft:
Some rods to hold sections in place and fine tuning of categories to follow, but we're chuffed.
Second batch of Seville marmalade made yesterday.
We discovered they'd dried out a bit from being on the tree too long and probably erratic watering too (must do better). But we made a batch anyway and it turned out way better than expected. Tart and delicious.
Today Mish has been silicone painting. The tiler had to use a white silicone product for our brass coin splashback so Mish has chocolate painted it to match the grout. Note her legendary blue tape in action yet again.
Kitchen is done.
Last weekend, a birthday trip to Havelock North, about four hours north of here. Our cottage view:
Relaxing weekend and a green drive through paddocks. Drove around on the annual arts trail and talked to some interesting people: a florist who works with resin, a stone carver, a paperworks gallery owner, and a German sculptor who used to live in Berrima and knows the artist whose wife bought our Robertson house. Small world.
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