Hallway Plans

We are still working on the final details of the bedroom

which I can't way to share with you and 

 are now making plans to give our hallway

some long awaited attention.

Yesterday was not as warm but the sun shone strongly so I snapped some

what will be the before photos of our upstairs hallway. There

is tons of work to do to transform this space and

I can visualize  what it will look like so clearly.

The horsehair plaster walls are

so uneven and I have just the fix for them.

As we are on an almost non budget we 

have decided to go with  Martha Stewart beadboard wallpaper 

for about three times less than real beadboard. We 

will take it 3/4's of the way up the wall 

for a dramatic effect like the above photo of our mudroom and cap it with a nice

chunky chair rail. All the door mouldings upstairs are from 1878 and 

do not match the arts and crafts trim on the landing and in most

of the downstairs. So the question is do we do a simple

shaker style cap like at the top like this one or something more

moulded like the doorways?

I really love the all white look of this hallway, so crisp and clean and how

about some smaller hooks to hang some pictures from?

Canadian House and Home Magazine

It is going to be a lot of elbow grease 

painting out all the old shellac covered 

 doorways, all 6 of them and  2 built-in cupboards.

I just love this linen cupboard and it's drawers below.

They are so deep and hold all kinds of stuff. When I pulled
out one of the drawers many years ago, I discovered this
incredible hand blocked wallpaper. I was in awe over it for such a long
time and was told it is french by a local museum staff at a museum nearby.
The colours are jewel red, blues and greens and it must have covered the
entire hallway at one time.

Todd installed one of our new $19.00 brushed nickel track lights here but it 

will be moved further down the hall and replaced with my all time favourite,

a moravian star light in an antique bronze finish.

I would love for this weird bulkhead to go like yesterday

as it seems to suit no purpose whatsoever and is

such an ugly distraction.  I love the colour of the old oak floors 

and think they will just pop once we paint all the trim white.

I loved the original push button light switches when

we moved in but not the hazard with old wiring. We 

bought up to code safe push button light switch boxes 

to put behind the old brass plates and had them rewired.

I'll have to give this one a little polish with spring 

cleaning soon.

This south facing set of windows and 36" wide niche has great potential and 

looks out over the farm fields across the street. Todd installed another

of the new track lights.  

I think a chaise would be divine here

as a little reading, studying or blogging 

getaway and a think that would be 

a great wall for pictures and 

artwork

So for the longest time we thought this 

cupboard was a writing desk positioned to 

capture the southern light but a neighbour

thinks it is a place to fold linens.

I use it to store all our old home history records, wallpaper pieces and

other important historical pieces collected from the renovations. 

So what do you think it is, a writing desk or a linen folding desk

or maybe both?

So much work, so little time,