Triumphant Return

During our trip south, we acquired a lot of new STUFF for 83 Durant. We're pretty excited about a lot of it. This picture shows the new and improved front room. We've acquired a new tall bookshelf (from my Mom, formerly from my Dad's parents' house), a blue checkered couch (from Gloria, one of Mom's friends) and the piece de resistance, an amazing old desk from my Great Aunt Sis. Check it out:


The desk is older than our house, dating from roughly 1850. Here's what happens when you open the top:

It's chock full of nooks and crannies! We love it.

In the realm of more contemporary purchases, we finally got a carpet to cover the plywood floor in the PINK room. It is not pink, as you can see:


Since we are hoping to change the PINK room's color sometime (when?) we got a carpet that looks OK with it, but that will hopefully go with a new, less PINK color scheme in the near future.