The World Through Diamond Windows: Don't touch anything! It is supposed to look like we live here...Not like we actually live here.

Sunday, February 21, 2016

Don't touch anything! It is supposed to look like we live here...Not like we actually live here.

The house tour was on a Thursday. The trucker and I rolled the rug into the house on Tuesday. Rolled on a dolly it is 22' x 16'. The furniture was delivered about ten minuets later. We were encouraged to have the houses decorated for Christmas so for the week leading up to the tour. I totally ignored my children and fed them a diet of Dunkin' Doughnuts for breakfast. Before you judge I made sure they ate at least half the egg and cheese croissant before their allotment of munchkins. Chipotle for everything else since it is a balanced meal in a tortilla. The first floor was off limits. There were a number of "Mommy Dearest" moments that week.

This was the picture of the house that was included with the tour tickets. It is a wonder anyone bothered to show up.

We are not "that house" any more. We look a little more legit.

This was taken just before we ripped the stoop out.

Lets Go Inside.

Entry Vestibule

Jamie, of Parker's Petals, had held a class the week earlier at Jonathan Adler and shared tips and inspiration. No my arrangements will never be as good or even in the same neighborhood good as Jamie's but they are better then they were before her instruction.

The Entry Hall with Living Room to the left.

The antique French fabric made up nicely on the consignment shop bench.

As discussed in an earlier post that we have no real symmetry. Nor do we have any great place to put a big tree so I measured up my children and went to the tree yard. Each child got their own tree to "decorate" under strict supervision. It was Martha gone mad. Favorite ornaments were "missing". Anything I deemed unappealing was covertly dealt with while they slept.