Post #13
We'll continue with the last room on the second floor that I plan on showing you. I guess the bathroom isn't that important; although it is cute, every one has one.
You enter this room by going through and to the left of the room with the dollhouses. This is the view as you go through the door. I spent many hours stripping the woodwork with a heat gun and scraper. All of the woodwork upstairs is douglas fir, a beautiful pine that you don't find anymore. The closets in my bedroom, the dark red one, are like brand new, still shiny and varnished. But as it turned out, this room had never been varnished or sealed. After all of this back breaking work, we discovered that the paint that was used at one time (probably oil-based) actually soaked deep into the wood. No amount of stripper would bring it up. So I had to paint all of the woodwork over again!
I was very pleased with my choice of wallpaper and carpeting. We call it the "Rose Room."
This picture is dark because I'm shooting at the door on a bright day. The door goes onto the overhead porch. I enjoy sitting up there in the spring or summer. My girls liked to go there to tan and read.
Did you notice there are no windows in this room? This door used to be the window and the door to the porch was where the bathroom window is now. The door with the hat goes into the bathroom. At some point in time, they switched them around. I think this was done so the recovering patients could have easy access to the porch and fresh air. The bathroom was not added until the 40s; that area used to be part of the wraparound stairwell and then was enclosed, maybe when it was turned into apartments. If you study a picture on the header you can get a feeling of what you are looking at. The middle window is the bathroom and the window on the left is the lavender bedroom.
I'm showing this little stand because of the little lamb on display. It has been in my husband's family since he was a little boy. There is a black one like it on the dresser, but we found that one at an antique shop.
This bed was previously in the room that is now my sewing room. When I moved all of my quilting supplies and fabrics in there we moved this bed in here and sold the "Jenny Lind" spindle bed that was here originally. I think I like this bed here better.
On the bed is a whole-cloth quilt that I made. If you're not a quilter that means it's made from one solid piece of fabric and then heavily quilted. I bought it pre-stenciled and hand quilted it. It was a lot of fun to do, and I was very happy with the finished product. I'd like to make another one someday.
That's it for today. There's only a few more places to show you.
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