Magnolia House

Getting closer... to a working studio

Still lots of little details to work through, but Cynthia started laying out where things go today, and I started reworking the barn doors.

Backyard War-Zone. Last Dumpster (I think)

Once again, we have used the side yard of our house as a junk yard, as debris from the latest clean-up and refurbish has accumulated. I think this is the last one for a long while.

This is mostly rotted and termite eaten wood from the shed, and some of its contents (old shelves and the like).

So now our yard it pretty close to being a blank slate, and the landscaping can begin in months to come.

We still have a pile of rocks that are all pretty cool from Mr. Almen's rock-hounding days (the previous owner), and a stack of used bricks.

We'll figure out how to incorporate them in the yard somehow. In the mean time, visitors enjoy the opportunity to dig through the rock pile for treasures.

Our friends Wade and Jenn visited last night, and their three boys left with a couple of bucket fulls of cool rocks.

The pile in the middle of the back yard is a three tiered fountain that will be one of our features in what will be a garden and patio oasis. Needs a little rework, but what hasn't?

The new back fence was painted by our roomie Sascha. She endearingly refers to it as "my fence." She did a great job.

 

A quilt with two missing squares...

This is for the Allmen girls. Cynthia found these quilt squares behind one of the drawers in the girls bedroom upstairs...

Recognize them?

Studio South Wall

So here's the latest progress on the studio, The south wall is pretty close to done.

The barn doors have new supporting posts and a threshold. They still need a little care, but I'll save that for next weekend.

The door came out of the garage attic. The horizontal board is where our old cast iron laundry sink will go, so Cynthia can clean the clay and glaze off of things, including her hands.

Here's a reminder of where we started. An old garage on a wood foundation, with 1 X 12's as walls (and no studs!).

It's all sitting on pole barn type construction now, with new 4 X 4 posts all the way around.

 We managed to reuse about two walls worth of the old boards, and had to go new on the others.

Another couple of weeks and there will be pottery happening here!