Entries now closed. Be sure to check the blog regularly — there will be another contest in May. Amy was the winner of our January contest to win a Love The House You’re In Collage — and that’s her classique mid-century modest home, above — as immortalized by collage artist extraordinaire Mel Kolstad. To win our April contest, all you have to do is:
Leave a Comment answering the question, “What project is at the top of your to-do list month?” If you want to leave a tidbit on its style, that would be cool, too. Please read all the rules here before entering, they all apply.
This month’s contest rewards regular readers — I’ll pick a winner late Monday night. Yay on all of you who check in daily!
“I LOVE Amy’s house! The minute I set eyes on it I got all nostalgic – this little beaut reminds me of the neighborhood in Green Bay, WI where I grew up. I loved the challenge on working with REALLY tiny “bricks” and making the “wrought iron” railing, and the fact that Amy wanted her family in the photo because they’re so supportive of her. That’s what it’s all about.”
Thanks, Mel! Read more about her work on her cool blog, Ephemeraology.
P.S.: Not to tantalize, but Jenni and I are putting the finishing touches on Mom’s bathroom today (Friday). Big reveal to come this weekend. If we survive. 🙂
Kara says
Landscaping. Gotta get that water to move away from the house so we are regrading, re-downspouting and replanting.
Jane / MulchMaid says
Beautiful collage, Mel! They just keep getting better!
We have two main projects at Longview Ranch this month:
1) complete the replacement of our cracked, red-painted, concrete patio with a more appropriate, exposed aggregate patio. We need sun and some dry weather for our contractor to pour though…and it’s not looking good: this is Portland Oregon! (pics of this project are in several posts on my garden blog at http://mulchmaid.blogspot.com/
2) toddler-proof the house for our three-year-old grandson who will be coming with his older sister, mom and dad (our son) to stay in June when they relocate to Portland from Minot, ND. Yay!
clampers says
Closing on our house! We just signed the purchase agreement last night!
It’s a light pink 1968 rambler.
Jane / MulchMaid says
Congrats, clampers! You are going to have so much fun!
Ann-Marie Meyers says
YAY! Welcome to the ’60’s.
Eartha Kitsch says
Congratulations! Nothing like the excitement of a new older home!
Just another Pam says
Happy joy joy, Clampers!
Having 1966 gray brick….ick….and granite I ran pink past lez boys but the whining sent me back to my second choice of black. Nice but not pink. You scored!
pam kueber says
congrats, clampers!
clampers says
Thanks everyone! I’m so excited to finally put all the great information on this site to use. 😀
Kerri S. says
I hope to replace our generic ceiling fan with a mid-mod style fan and light and add a swag lamp to the same room.
SAS says
Oh, goodness, where to start? I guess we ought to focus on getting pictures up on our very bare walls.
lady brett says
our wedding is our main project this month!
but even that can’t change all of the house things on our to-do list right now – top project is to finish the raised beds for our veg. garden (the herbs and fruit are already chugging along), and a certain storm and large oak tree moved “replace the back porch roof” from the bottom to the top of the list rather quickly!
Just another Pam says
Wishing you much happiness, Lady Brett!
Wendy M. says
Making curtains for the kitchen window and the slider in the pantry area. I’ve been waiting for a collection of Michael Miller fabric in aqua to arrive at our local fabric store and it should be in soon…
Good luck to everyone else on their projects!
Eartha Kitsch says
Great job, Mel! and Congratulations to Amy! We’re still working on our upcoming exterior house painting extravaganza next month. We’ve got big ole paint swatches painted all over our house. I guess this month, we hope to FINALLY choose which aqua isn’t too blue…and isn’t too green….and that we BOTH like.
I love reading what everyone is doing. What a bunch of busy bees we all are!
punkrockmartha says
as unglamourous as it is, my most important project will be putting up new gutters to replace the evil ones that are currently directing water where it needn’t be and ruining my walls. on the plus side, this gives me the perfect excuse to repaint the whole exterior of my house! go gutters!
Janice says
We have been working on a bathroom renovation of our own, but instead of 7 days, it’s taken us 4 months and we’re still not done, We stripped this small second bath to the studs and put in new flooring, shower pan and best of all, 4 x 4 pink tile from B & W Tile (who by the way, I TOTALLY recommend, they are lovely to work with.) Hubbie and I are completely DIYing this on our own and considering we’re first time tilers, I think we did a darn fine job. This weekend we’re grouting the entire project and then hopefully, next weekend, we set in the toilet and sink. Then it’s just a matter of placing all the vintage accesories, and VOILA! we will have recreated a pink, white and black bathroom in our 1954 ranch…with the idea that it will look like it was there all along.
Pam, I was so excited to log on this morning in hopes of seeing the big reveal, but I quess I can wait a few more days! 🙂 Everyone have a great weekend with your projects!