April showers

April showers bring May flowers... but they also bring all the deck furniture cushions inside for days on end.... We'll survive! 

Cozy reading nook

Loft fun

To celebrate Liz and Andrew's upcoming nuptials (they got engaged last weekend!), Mary hosted a girls weekend for Liz and her two besties in Atlanta. We created a staging area for the girls to enjoy a bridal-themed slideshow, with champagne and sweets of course, while they got ready for a surprise bridal shower!!! It was so much fun dressing up our loft area. We loved the projector so much we've left it set up and look forward to enjoying many a movie night here. 

The full monty

From this panoramic view, you can see how theater suite connects to the bath (door #1 on the left), the hall (door #2), and the chihuahua bedroom (open doorway). 

Final lights hung

Loft

In vino veritas

Finally finished priming and painting our upstairs wine rack -- to keep the good stuff on hand as opposed to digging around in 'the cellar.' ;) The tray on top is an old pan used by soldiers in the Civil War era to cook over their campfires. Within, we've gathered some vintage liquor bottles found in our attic (!) during our initial renovation phase (way back in 2010), and some not so antique wine paraphernalia. This little guy (the wine rack) fits perfectly in the corner of our small dining room and has come in quite handy. The artwork above is of Mary's beloved camels, procured from India, and is painted on antique paper (that's actually obsolete government documents on letterhead!).