Home Work
Since day one, we’ve been talking and daydreaming about outbuildings on the farm—a barn to replace our pile-of-barn (or POB as a friend recently called it), a workshop for Ben so he can move off the back deck and into … Continue reading
renovation
Billy Bookcase—Hacked
The additions of storage and organization in our hardest-working room, the pantry/laundry, continue with a trio of IKEA‘s Billy Bookcases. But, in our ever-cockamamay way, we didn’t use the pieces with their intended purpose. Instead, we performed an IKEA furniture … Continue reading
Smart Storage for the Pantry/Laundry
The last few weeks, Ben and I have been working on the pantry/laundry room. We have covered the walls and ceiling in bead board panels, and installed shelf brackets with pine planks as floating shelves on the wall above our … Continue reading
Recovering a Roller Shade
As with any house that has been lived in by elderly folks for decades upon decades, we inherited some really choice window treatments. Old, stained lace valances, some lovely sheer drapes with green leaves and vines printed on them (touching … Continue reading
We’re cookin now!
The phrase “in progress” or even “under construction” are good descriptors for our kitchen space. Many things have changed—we moved the sink to a different wall and demolished an entire wall of the room—but some things remain the same—we are … Continue reading
Window Treatments for Warmth
Waaaaayyyyy back in, well, summer, I fell in love with these gorgeous drapery panels from West Elm. They were on sale and I snapped up enough to dress all the first floor windows in the farm house. The color and … Continue reading
Dreaming of Spring
Cockamamy Farm is a victim of this crazy polar vortex the weather folks are calling “Winter Storm Gorgon.” We were blanketed with several inches of snow and now temps are down right scary. The high today is below zero. Fahrenheit. … Continue reading
2014: The Year of Make It Better
Wow. Last night Ben and I were updating the calendar and to-do list on our kitchen chalkboard walls. He did the math and realized that we are just 90 days from owning Cockamamy for a solid year. How did that … Continue reading
A Very Happy Holiday
Wishing you a very merry Christmas and a wonderful holiday season, dear friends! We hope that y’all are enjoying a respite from the rush and craziness and stress for the next few days. Santa came to the farm a few … Continue reading
Bringing Junk Zombie Home
Several weeks ago, our friend Melissa told us about an upcoming sale at Junk Zombie headquarters—an historic stone house about 20 miles from our place. The couple who lives there have made a business out of adopting so-called junk and … Continue reading
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