More pictures of the hobbit-hole. Some make more sense if you've seen the original house photo gallery.
Chandelier over front entrance is about 3 feet tall. It's one of the things that hooked me on the house, illogically, because it looks like Elves made it. I am totally going for ironwork-and-curlicues with this house, to go with what was already here.
I replaced scraggly impatients with marigolds.
Random pictures of living room (front door has dragonfly chimes from Tibet)
Stowed under the stair is a small wheely-desk from Ikea on which I can plunk down laptop and pay bills in front of TV. Also Samhain's Fortress of Solitude.
Kitchen. (Door with pet door leads into garage. To left of it is a half bathroom, to right is a HUGE pantry. I'm standing with my back to the sliding glass doors leading onto the patio; the living room is off to the right with a wall dividing it from kitchen.)
Office, plus OFFICE CLOSET. I had these shelves installed in what had been a walk-in clothes closet. All modular/adjustable, and I can add hooks, rods, or other goodies later as needed.
Highly prosaic pictures of highly bizarre bathroom. Note steampunk and ironwork fixtures. Towel rack with leaf is oil-rubbed iron, as were those in master bath; I'm still peeved the painters lost one of them but at least I found the brass leaves for the shower curtain. (Large oval bathtub big enough to slouch in comfortably, yay). Toilet/shower is separate room to left; HUGE walk-in closet is behind mirrored door to right.
Guest bathroom at top of stairs furnished with that arbiter of high style and fashion, Targét. Looks pretty good for $50. (Matching carpet as well.) Did I mention goofy toilet seats? The master bath is a rosebud; this one's a seashell.
Outside, around 9:30PM. Warm. No mosquitoes. From left to right: jasmine, wind chimes hanging from eucalyptus tree that's hanging over this whole picture, table with miniature red rose and yellow mums, laptop, annoyed cat, me, cape honeysuckle (overhead) which attracts many hummingbirds with its flame-orange blossoms, (below feet) 12 dollar bucket o' many flowers from Ace Hardware, weird red flowers on plant stand whose name I forget, strawberry pot of many cooking herbs, small but prolific plum tree.
At last, I have my Rivendell Bed! Recycled iron, rubberwood from a fast-growing eco-friendly tree. Yes, I need wall hangings. It matches my Nana's 120-year-old chair.
And finally, first Christmas in my new home. Which is still not very Bag-end like, but little by little... it grows.
