'Fall'ing into the season ...

Fall is here and the pumpkins are up ...
... we LOVE this season at 100 South Meadow!

Small steps ... big payoffs

We've made some progress in many areas of the house in the last several weeks ... so decided to share a couple of the updates.

We finally decided on window treatments for the kitchen. The period wool fabric we chose lets in light while providing a bit of privacy. We chose very primitive securements for the curtains (antique nails and garden twine) to finish the look. Many thanks to Grandmother for her help!

We also finished off the laundry room recently. We went with a wide pine paneled ceiling painted the same color as the plastered walls and floor boards. A square window lets in amazing light -- and since it faces the back yard, we didn't adorn it with anything other than trim. A shelf made of leftover flooring holds our laundry supplies and some goods from an antique store in Western New York (including an old Rochester-made whiskey jug and Cape Cod cranberry crate). A rug, found at a yard sale of another historic home in Lancaster, finishes off the room. Because a door (just to the right of the camera view) in this space is the gateway to all that the back yard holds, we wanted to blend the "outside" with the "in" ... and make it a room that is easy on the eyes of its passerbys.