light

One thing about my house is, there is no shortage of dramatic light here.


The red room is variously named but mostly called the banjo room. It is a great setting for playing acoustic instruments. Once in a while a few friends and I play guitar, banjo, mandolin, and violin here late into the night.



The room gets afternoon sun. Yesterday, the late afternoon sun came through the window on the left, causing these haunting rays.

The east bedroom, everyone calls the log cabin because of its knotted pine finish. It offers a dreamy view of the sunrise which, this morning, was as enchanting as always:

The living room faces west/northwest. At dusk the recessed lighting reflects in the windows and the orangey reflections complement the purple blue sky. Orange and blue are complementary colors.


There are no home projects currently. This spring will include tiling the upstairs shower, enlargening the garden, sealcoating the driveway. If I have the energy, possibly recessed halogen lighting in the kitchen, and putting an opening in the wall between kitchen and living room. If I can save a few pennies, a white pergola over the deck.

shadow forest spirits

Sunflowers Dec 27


Connecticut fog, my back yard
becomes a deep, surreal landscape
yet playful

ethereal sunset

soundless

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inside...

the Living room floor is still a mess but the walls are grand

Above the door to kitchen, I installed a mantelpiece-style molding, with crown molding flaring outward.

before molding (door to kitch on left), I took this photo of paint swatches & loose wiring. You can see that the door to kitchen originally had no molding

crown & door moldings, final!

cutting chair rail using compound-miter saw.

Cutaway of new door molding was needed for light switch. It works for me, I think it somehow makes the house look older.

switch plate installed. You can see how I cut the right side to blend into door molding.

light switches & wall repair. The wall repair was because there was only one switch before, & I had to widen hole.

drywall cutout in shape of hole around switch box, for reparing wall cut

cutting door side molding, to fit light switch

wall repair at a location where I split wiring to go to various rows of

recessed lights

angle view showing flared-out crown molding around door to kitchen, a 3-weekend project:

front door, closet, glimpse of chair rail up stairs

Rosette over front door corner. Georgian molding on left side of front door. Crown-molding corner half-finished.

Crown molding piece installed:

Brittania Blue, runner-up color. It is the warmest blue I could come up with but still not warm nuff.

before trying blue, experimenting with earth tones. Around October.

original room with front-door trim pulled off

happy pretty snow

looks like we're getting an inch

wilted sunflowers

unreachable apples remain on the tree

sneak preview of living room, showing hepplewhite ivory against white trim. actually the white is peach tinted. still a couple weeks from finished.

around town

It was as good a day as any to check out the foliage. I barely had to walk out the door. For this, I am grateful.

*** today is a Toofer! two posts today. be sure to read on about the recessed lighting! ***

pumpkin-farm down the street!

Glastonbury - Hebron town line

bliss on Foote's farm. Usually they are grazing but for this moment they strike a pose!

sun hitting leaves on Boston Hill Road

Rte 85 guess where

Burnt Mill Rd. on the way to Coventry

After the harvest!

Gilead is in a highland area, and Rte 85 runs along a ridge. Gilead is the northernmost village of Hebron. It is comprised of mainly...this

that white house is actually across street from church

Cornfield next to church!

Typical traffic situation!

More of downtown Gilead

Foote's again

Rte 94. Foote owns farmland on both sides of the road, and keeps the farm in immaculate shape! Foote family has been a big landowner in the area since ye olde times. Their land includes the woods next to my house.