The "all-season" room...
There is one space in this house I wasn’t really sure I would like. I really thought I would eventually remove the “glass wall” and just open it back up as a covered patio.
Now, it is one of my favorite spaces.
The “all-season” room.
I call it that because it is basically a glassed in covered patio…floor to ceiling operable windows and a glass door. Concrete floor…brick walls.
I really thought it would be a “sauna” on hot, humid days, but no. Even on the hottest days this summer it stayed comfortable. Very pleasant.
I suspect it will stay relatively warm in the winter and will make for comfortable bird watching.
(In this picture you get a peak at a few of the transom windows I replaced…they were arched and to “de-tradionalize” this house I changed all the transoms to rectangular windows…LOVE!)
You might remember this little vintage chair from its “makeover feature.” Matt is moving this week so we have rehomed it!
I brought my bar stools from the last house but they are too tall for my counter-height bar here…so I wanted to use them in this room. The big problem was finding a good bar-height table. I looked on line but everything I found that would work was super expensive. While cruising through Hobby Lobby one day I found the perfect iron base table…only problem was the top was a tad too small. No biggy…I bought a bigger round pine top at Lowes, stained it and sealed it, removed the small top (four screws) and added the larger top.
Presto, bingo! Perfect “bar table” for my bar stools and perfect for evening dining!
The rug…a leftover from our old “guest room.” The new guest room has carpet and it isn’t terribly offensive so I decided not to use the rug in there. It is perfect for this space since it is really an “indoor/outdoor” rug.
The two most important elements…heirloom pieces that have humungous sentimental value.
The first…the stained glass. This is a piece my mom and dad made together YEARS ago…he has been gone 25 years so it has to be 26+ years. Dad had built a frame for it and it hung over their dining room window.
This past week my mom passed away and I inherited this piece. I really have no windows it would fit without some serious modifications so I decided to build a frame for it, line it with LED lights and hang it in this room. (Yes, I still need to paint the frame! And the ceiling. They are on my very long list of things to do!)
I love it…it is seriously one of the prettiest elements in this home. Maybe because it has such a profound sentimental value…but beautiful in its own right.
This table….
You may remember my post about “Visiting History” last year. These boards came from the building my dad worked in during my childhood. They sat in my yard for over a year because I just wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with them.
This week I hand sanded them just enough to get the gunk off…
…sealed them with poly…
…and attached iron hairpin legs (you can buy them here). Perfect little side table for this room! I love that you can still see all the mill marks and nail holes!
So a room I wasn’t quite sure would make the cut has now become one of my favorite spaces in this house and is home to a few of the most “valuable” things I possess.
Beautiful….
