More cottage photos

Good morning! I have a few more photos to show you. They are not really in any particular order. I would like to hear your ideas on what to do with this fireplace. It is not functional (sadly) , but I would like to decorate it. It's white brick, and I sanded down into the layers upon layers of old paint through the years and found that vintage greenish bluish color and left it peaking through in many places. I have an old rusted gate that I've leaned up against it. Not sure whether to leave it or put in on the wall somewhere. Those old chippy blue shutters are just laying there, too. That painting is an antique that I got at a garage sale and it's rather dark in real life. I don't know if I'm going to leave it there or not. I have two sets of wall sconces for candles that I thought I may put up there when I decide about the painting or maybe a big mirror.... Any ideas???

THis next one is in my daughter's room. It's an old vanity that a lady at a garage sale practically gave me. She had already stripped the old varnish off and all I had to do was paint it and fix up a little of the veneer on the inside. We put glass knobs on it and it looks SO CUTE! Princess is going to use it for a desk, computer, etc., as well as makeup.

Here is my garden shed that we are fixing up. It was falling down - literally - and our carpenter jacked it up and put new studs and floor into it. He's putting some doors on it and I have some old windows that I bought somewhere that he's going to hinge so that I can swing them out and catch a breeze when I'm out there. We're going to run electricity and water to it from the pumphouse for the garden area. We've still got some work to do on it, but it's gone from the leaning tower of Piza to a sturdy looking garden shed. Our lab, Jake, loves it - he's got a little hay box out there already that he sleeps in at night. My husband bought old weathered wood to replace the rotton stuff with on the outside so it'll look authentic!

We had some shelves built in the tiny bathroom for storage. The bottom I had cabinet doors put on but left the top ones open. I later found an old tablecloth with light blue cutwork on it that I used for a drape over the open top. It's held back with some old blue rhinestone earclips that belonged to the old maid cousin - she really went in for glitz and glam. I have 2 jewelry boxes of this stuff! Still working on the bedroom and things to put on the wall, but I wanted to show you all my headboard. I found a couple of pieces of old iron fencing, had my dad weld them together in the middle, and bracketed to the wall (they were so heavy we couldn't attach them to the bed). I love it and it's really different!

This is the other corner of my bedroom. See the wallhanging? I'll try to get a better photo. I bought this old screen window with shelves on it from Margo at Robolady at her barn sale. We had this awful huge electric panel on the wall and this covered it just perfectly. I put some old quilt behind it to cover the panel. Works great!

Here's just another shot of part of my living room, where you can see the curtains a little better.

In my kitchen at the end of the cabinet, there's this little rounded spot which was open on the bottom. You could put all sorts of neat things there, but I decided since space was a problem that I'd put a skirt around it and use it to store paper goods and extra boxes of soda, etc. I love the little display shelf on top, too. I've started a collection of pitchers. Didn't mean to, but it's evolved into that. See the little brown spice cabinet? Uncle Claude built that, too. I keep aspirin and stuff in it that usually you'd find in a junk drawer. It's so old that I couldn't keep spices in it - it smells really musty even after scrubbing with baking soda, etc. Oh, by the way, I got a really nice surprise yesterday - Vee from A Haven for Vee tagged me. I'm going to figure out what that means and tag some other folks. I wish I had the gift for gab and clever writing that some of you smart ladies have, but alas, I do not. I am in awe of anyone who can hold my attention with words! Talk to you later!