Category: entranceway

Happy Halloween!

I hope everyone is having a safe and fun Halloween. We were lucky to do one outing today over to our extended family pods’ house for an outdoors ‘haunted house’ and family party for the kids. It was great!

Now that the windows are permitted, we are just waiting for them to come in. We are getting Marvin brand, with a fiberglass outdoor finish and the wood interior. This is what we have in the back room of our house, and so far so good, although some of the hardware is starting to wiggle and seems a bit loose after only about a year or so. The lead time for delivery is 10 weeks! So that means we are firmly into 2021 for installation and then we have to contend, we hope, with rain. It’s been another extremely dry fall in California, so we are hoping that by January, we see something! However, the dryness would be nice for our installations.

While we wait for the windows, I have put out a RFQ to a local electrician to get a quote on a ceiling fan for our entranceway. This has been interesting because our ceilings are not that high, we have a very very, small crawl space above ceiling, and we have really old wiring. It seems as though we have an electrician who is open to all of that and will give us a fair price for installation/box/additionally needed work to get it done.

Says it ionizes air!? That is impressive, no?

Next question is; what style fan!? I have a few favorites in mind, but some of them need a taller ceiling than I have space for- and I should say, I want a ‘fandalier’ which is sort of like the mullet of lighting fixtures!? It has a chandelier/multiple lights and a fan! Trust me, we need this air flow in our small house which has no central air and has been getting SO hot in the summer and fall. Also I realize I have to choose the correct scale for the room, not too low down, and so it will not overpower the space- another reason shopping online, while often a better deal, can be harder for me than in person.

https://www.overstock.com/Lighting-Ceiling-Fans/Miyaka-6-light-Metal-3-blade-29-inch-Rustic-Bronze-Ceiling-Fan-with-Remote/20981057/product.html?option=34890136

Here are some ideas. How has having a celling fan worked in your space and what do you recommended?

https://www.overstock.com/Lighting-Ceiling-Fans/Modern-Chrome-Crystal-Ceiling-Fan-3-Light-Chandelier-N-A/30889442/product.html?refccid=QH6YELNHX47Z3H2IUS7FO2J4HI&searchidx=12&kwds=&rfmt=

Staying in Touch & Entranceway

Hey Guys! I should say gals too, although at this point I have literally 0 readers, that is okay, someday when I have enough posts and get a bit more cohesion with my website I have no doubt I will have more traffic and followers, ha.

I’ve been up since about 6:00, just thinking about Christmas gifts, chatting with my husband about the upcoming elections and making coffee, as well as browsing the web and looking at Etsy, Pintrest, and emailing an old friend I have not heard from in a while. I really haven’t heard from him in a while and he is in his early 70’s, we met when I was a sales rep in his area and we worked together, he ended up being such a great mentor and business partner, and when I worked in Santa Cruz we would go out for a meal. I hope he is okay – he had a surgery just before COVID and had lost his wife early in 2020. I’ll update if I hear from him, which will be a huge relief.

Besides my framing project (see framing post, here), I’ve been thinking about a wallpaper project in our entranceway. We have an older, at least by California standards, early 1930’s (1929?) home, and the entranceway is THE largest room in the house, almost as big as the living room. The square footage is very generous but it has a total of *6* doors or doorways going in and out of it, so it’s a tough space for flow with only a few solid, long walls- one of which you face when you enter the house. I’ve been thinking about wallpapering this wall. (Photos to come.)

Here are some ideas for wallpaper from my entranceway. Note we have a parquet floor which is kind of a complicated pattern. What do you think about these patterns?