| September 29, 2000 Guest Room
Welcome to a tour of my guest room.
On our recent trip to Georgia, we brought back a lot of
furniture that's been in our families for a long time. Most of the furniture in this room
is what I had in my room when I was growing up. It is handmade oak furniture. My father
refinished it years ago.
Here you can see the
bed, which mostly fills up the room, and one corner. On the wall beside the window are
three pictures we got on our honeymoon in Prince Edward Island back in 1993; they are
pictures of Anne of Green Gables, Green Gables (the house), and some other houses from the
north shore of PEI.
On the bed you will notice two cats -- the black one on the
end, which is Ziggy, and the white one wearing the hat up on the pillows. This one came
from Las Vegas, very exotic.
Over in the corner behind the bed is a dresser that Marty's
grandfather made by hand when he was in his 30s. He died very young, when he was in his
early 40s, so Marty never knew him. On top of the dresser are a bunch of
"babies," as we always called them in my family.
Moving around the room, you'll see the wash stand that goes
with my bedroom furniture. The windows on the right wall face the street, so they are on
the front of the house. We get a lot of sun through them during the day, as you can
probably tell. Here's
a clearer shot of the wash stand.
On the wall between the 2 front windows is my favorite part
of the room. It's an old drawer from a print
shop, which used to hold the little letters printers would use to print newspapers or
books or whatever. We hung it on the wall and I put all my little treasures in there. Some
of these things are much older than I am and were given to me when I was a little girl.
Some of them are things I've picked up around the world, and lots of them are presents
from friends. Also there are 7 very controlling and manipulative frogs living in
here now.
And here's the last wall
of the room. Yes, this room has 4 dressers. Too much is never enough!!!
Now I am off to the airport to pick up Sonal, who is coming
for the weekend. Do you think she'll be comfortable among all these ruffles and staring
dolls? :-) |
