Hanging Art Work

We are definitely not doing things in the right order. Mom and Dad have passed family paintings on to us kids this week and they need to go somewhere. My Mom's Mom was an artist and there are lots of paintings that we all love. I was named after this Grandmother and she could never figure out why I can't even draw a stick figure if I have her name.

We hung one of Grandmother Mary's paintings in the back hall. The hall isn't painted yet and won't be for sometime. But the wall was screaming for art work; now we get to see this beautiful piece of art when we come and go. My one Grandma's wood on the ceiling the other one's painting is on the wall. We are surrounding ourselves with family history in the back hallway.

The painting on the Pantry wall is the view from our favorite place to get coffee on  Grand Cayman Island. The blues in the painting are gorgeous with our "Yellow" walls.

Love getting our art work up where we can appreciate it. We only have dozens more to find places to hang them for us to enjoy.

Chewey to Chewey

We love the back hallway ceiling so much that we are going to use the family wood in the front entryway also. The front entry is a little more formal than the back hall. So we planed the boards three times to get the rough look gone and you can really see the beautiful grain.

What makes the boards so unique is that there are varmit holes. This is where mice or racoon or skunks or whatever have chewed through the wood to get to the wheat that was stored in the bins. They add so much interest to the wood we want to be sure the holes are noticed. We spent an hour matching chewed holes to each other.

 We have separated the boards into chewed on boards and non chewed.

 Look at the beautiful grain with this Red Oak. So excited to see this go up. Now to find a light that will go with the slightly rustic wood, the formal tile I have chosen for the floor and the very formal hall tree that goes into the entry. No small task but I know the perfect light is out there. Also I am all about low maintenance and being in the country I want something I can run a duster over to clean.

 Here we are putting the Lanai wood up for the boards to be attached to. Bill is anxious and wanted to just start putting them up. I asked, "Don't you need the drywall up first?" Oh, yeah and the electrical needs to be run before we drywall. So he just put short pieces of drywall up to let him put up the boards. We can still run all the electrical and drywall later.