Photos: The Little Library, All Fixed Up

Just for reference, here are three photos to show what this room looked like when I began:

This was Caleb's old room.  Victoria used it sometimes as her crafting room.  Then it became a catch-all.  I don't get along very well with 'catch-alls'; they offend my sensibilities.

This was once my little office and sewing room, before Hester and Lydia got married and I moved my sewing room downstairs.

Now for the 'After' photos:

I made the Lone Star quilt in about 1992, I think, from a stack of squares I found in my mother's basement.  Each square was just big enough to cut two diamonds from.

The new mattress for this twin-sized captain bed just arrived today.

The window over there on the opposite wall looks right into the new addition.  Into the large closet, to be exact.  Maybe I should put a mural behind the glass?

The books are all children's; I'll put our commentaries, reference books, and biographies in the bookcases downstairs on the main floor.  There are still a lot of children's books in plastic bins.  Haven't decided where to put them yet.  Maybe in the bottom part of the bookcase over there in the far corner, though I doubt they'll all fit in there.

The window in this dormer looks toward the north.

Hannah made that beautiful crocheted rug.

The door on the left opens into a fairly long closet; I'm using it for my winter clothes.  The door on the right opens to the upper landing.  Victoria's old room, which will be my new sewing room, is on the other side of the far wall.  The little office is on the other side of the wall on the right.

A doll blanket made for Victoria about 15 years ago.

The little office.  The door is temporary; on the other side is the addition -- which is larger than the original house.  It will be our bedroom, and has a very large closet and a big bathroom.  Someday, someday.

This is the closet in Victoria's old room.  You can tell by the gap in the floor where the original wall was, when we got this house.  There was a little door on the right... a long, skinny, unusable closet with a short bar on the left, a few narrow shelves on the right, and doors to a large under-the-eave cubbyhole right behind that big bookcase.  I made a white curtain with eyelet lace edging to hang from the rod in front of Victoria's clothes.  

The cubbyhole is empty now.  Larry is going to finish the floor and the frame around the edges.  We'll remove the shelf, brackets, and rod.

I brought some of my quilting/crafting/sewing/smocking/embroidery books up from the basement.  There are several armloads to go, but I threw in the towel for the night.

A little tin vintage sewing box my late sister-in-law gave either Victoria or me.