One of the many things I have learned from living in an old old house is patience!!!!!! We live in a society that wants everything NOW ,but the reality is some things take time. I have grown as a person in that regard. I am the first to admit I would like things finished faster in this house but sometimes the funds are not available.I have a half painted front porch (need to buy more paint) and as much as it drives me crazy to see it when I walk out my front door , I take a deep breath and say to myself ALL IS WELL IN MY WORLD!!!! I know it will get done before it is too cold to sit out there.There is satisfaction when a project or goal is accomplished little or big. I LOVE scratching things off my list as projects are completed!!!!! We had been talking about adding driveway gates for a few years now and the end is in sight!!!! We have all the material, now we just need the time to complete!!!! I remind myself daily that I am living one of my dreams (living near the lake in a victorian house!!!!(No,it's not the Queen Ann Victorian with the wrap around porch but I know one day we will be living in one!!!!!)
We are finally building a bathroom on the main floor!!!! we actually started a few months ago but we have been so busy that I have not posted. We had been thinking about adding a powder room on the main level for guests since we have the main bathroom on the second floor.I really hated people having to go upstairs to use the bathroom and it was difficult for older people to climb the stairs.
We figured out the space we would use for the bathroom.We would use two closets next to each other and a few feet from our dining room. The first closet we used was the entrance closet. It was a very long narrow closet and then there was a closet in the dining room ( which used to be an old bedroom originally).The dining room closet was also under our staircase. This powder room evolved into a full bathroom with the addition of a shower. Our upstairs bathroom only has a clawfoot bathtub so everyone wanted A shower.
This addition of a shower complicated our design. It took longer to figure out positioning of everything but somehow once we knocked out walls and opened up the wall under the stairs we gained more head room and the space opened up magically!
