In my first post you learned that I recently moved. I just moved to a new house and kept the old family house. I am soon to be a grandma and my youngest daughter and her ‘Sporty BF’ are living there. She is very much like mom and likes cool ‘old’ stuff. The Ratical BF and I have been helping with remodeling and adding our ‘Archaic’ touches to the interior — as eventually the house will be just for us as our up north getaway. Below are some photos of the progress.

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Wish I would have taken a before picture — this was a solid wall in our 1930’s bungalo-like house. It’s been added on to and remodeled multiple times by previous owners. It has custom made cabinets in the kitchen that you see, built by a carpenter or handyman long ago and lots of built in storage in the bedrooms, laundry, and bath.

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After making the hole in the wall, the Ratical BF used metal to trim out the opening and a huge piece of old barn wood to make the breakfast bar along with some in magliette calcio a poco prezzo expensive brackets we picked up at Menards. Our friend who we’ll call ‘Barbie’ painted the wall with a mud technique over the barn red my daughter started with when she ferociously went through and painted every wall in the house.

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In a later post I’ll show you how we used both rusty and shiny metal to trim out the rest of it and added a nice little touch and focal point.