Tuesday, July 24, 2012

A new house and a re-styled outfit

Outside kitchen window
How to get to the front door
You asked for pictures so here are some.   This is a contemporary house in a private neighborhood off a private road just outside the Asheville city limits.  We have almost an acre of all trees so I don't need curtains on any window.   In addition to these wonderful windows, there are many skylights and clearstory windows that let in lots of light - even in the bathrooms!   There is lots of open space with room for my carpets on the lovely oak floors.    My sewing room is on the lower level - you can see the stone patio in first photo.   I donated much, and kept only minimal furniture and other necessary items.   My goals were no clutter and easy to clean.   And I have no trouble going up and down those, or any other stairs, even carrying a grocery bag with handles in each hand. 


I'm wearing a knit Anything But Ordinary top from Louise Cutting's pattern that I restyled by removing the sleeves in 2009, and a Loes Hinse Tango skirt I sewed in 2006.    Can't remember where the variegated knit fabric came from.

Windows looking onto front deck
With a pair of Turkmen prayer rugs
And here's how big the wild turkey chicks are now ... with mom always watching over




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7 comments:

  1. JudithJuly 24, 2012 at 4:11 PM

    Thanks for sharing this beautiful part of the world with us! The peace and privacy must be ideal.
    Love the colours of this outfit on you...
    ✿ Judy
    made by J

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  2. MarthaJuly 24, 2012 at 7:46 PM

    So lovely and peaceful - both you and your new home!

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  3. FranJuly 25, 2012 at 7:08 AM

    So happy to see your post and know you are doing great! Beautiful home -- and I love the wild turkeys.

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  4. AnonymousJuly 25, 2012 at 9:39 AM

    Wow, Terry - on all counts! What an absolutely lovely setting you have to live and work/sew in. That shot of you in front of the windows shows you, the outfit, and the house to best advantage.

    When you said you were moving, I imagined a single level house with no stairs, lol. It's wonderful to see you so well again and, btw, were do you find those cute flats that you wear in a lot your shots? They are feminine and stylish while at the same time... well... flat. Since retiring from the working world a few years back and spending my time in the gardens or barefoot in the house, my back & feet had taken an intense dislike to heels.

    Congratulations and enjoy your new home & studio,

    Gayle

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  5. Terri KJuly 25, 2012 at 10:27 AM

    Thank you all. Gayle, everything is pretty much on the main floor - kitchen, great room bedrooms and even the washing machine/dryer just off the master bathroom so I'm not having to go to the basement to wash. DH is designing a removable clothesline for the back deck - gotta have our clothesline! This house had everything (and more) in a house we paid an architect to design, but was already built and cost a whole lot less than building. The stairs and hills do provide good exercise

    I also go barefoot around the house all the time when it's warm.cannot wear heels and wore mostly flats even before that. Aerosoles are a good source and these came from the Vera Wang collection at Kohls. I found them in the clearance section for less than $10.

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  6. AnonymousJuly 25, 2012 at 2:53 PM

    Thanks Terri. The beauty of online shopping is that you can see and then order to try on so I may try that with the aerosoles ones. Great buy on those ones, btw.

    Isn't it wonderful to have the laundry on the main floor? We built when we moved here 5 years ago and that was one of the things on my list (along with a big main floor pantry) and it is so much easier in all respects. My sewing area is on the lower level but we have a walkout so I figured if worst came to worst and I couldn't handle stairs, I'd just go outside and walk/wheel around the house to get there, lol. My clothesline is off the deck too but it's a permanent fixture - we're too far out of the city to be affected by any clothesline ban. Hanging among the trees, it's really pretty unobtrusive less it's full of pre-washed fabrics flapping in the breeze.

    thanks again,

    Gayle

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  7. Boppingbeth (aka Beth or Elizabeth)August 2, 2012 at 5:01 PM

    Love seeing you back and feeling so much better. Your sewing is awesome, and I love the thought of your open uncluttered house.

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