Abigail Martin

03/17/2025

03/17/2025

03/17/2025

I just wanted to thank everyone here for their suggestions on 2 of my previous posts about improving my Dining Room! Because of YOU, this is what I did and I absolutely LOVE the before and after results!
1. Lowered the chandelier.
2. Added two additional curtain panels.
3. Changed out the “busy” chair covers.
4. Bought a larger centerpiece.
5. Changed the old rug.
6. Changed the wall art from the metal piece to a canvas print and two candle sconces.
7. Changed the placemats to a runner.
8. Added a larger plant and plant stand.
9. I will also be having the entire downstairs painted to a bright white in a few weeks. BM Chantilly Lace.
So, thank you all so much to everyone! I really love this group!

11/08/2024

So beautiful ✨🤍

11/08/2024

My 612 sq ft home....

11/08/2024

Thoughts ??

11/08/2024

Another old home, shrouded for years in mystery, is Rosemount Plantation, in Green County, AL. It was once called "the grand mansion of Alabama", but for the past 3 decades, it has been restored and abandoned multiple times. A doctor is said to own it and apparently poured a lot of money into the exterior restoration a few years back, but it's current status is unknown. I am distantly related to the Glover family who built it in the 1830s, but I've never seen it and no longer have any living relatives in the vicinity.
*Edit* I've added a picture I found online dated 2014, it shows the large cupola, one of the biggest I've ever seen.

11/08/2024

Before and After of our 1890's farmhouse guest room. The prior owners had painted EVERYTHING including the floor! My plan is to add a picture rail where the stenciling ends about a foot from the ceiling.

11/08/2024

There are bigger and more beautiful homes in America than our house but there’s only one Simsford house on the planet. It’s not just a house to us, it’s where we love, laugh and thrive. Friends and family tell us now that we are older we should downsize and move to a single story house. Clearly they don’t know that our world is here and will be till the end of our time.

11/08/2024

It took 3 years but The dining room is DONE!!!-ish…

Color: Secret Garden (Sherwin Williams)

11/07/2024

Here is our 1878 steam radiator with a moveable wallpaper protector on top and monster as the bottom leg. The steam heat is better than the forced air in our former bungalow because pollen and dust aren't blown around. The oak floor has a Greek key design around the perimeter.One of the two upstairs archways made of plaster but false-grained to look like walnut. The top of the nineteen-step stairway showing the guard dog, a new stained glass window replacing a stolen one, the "coffin niche" and an inlaid floor in pinwheel design. When one died, the body was displayed in the bedroom so it was necessary to have a niche on a curved wall to carry the casket downstairs. By this time, that was an outdated practice because this niche is placed too high in the wall. This floor was covered by linoleum which had to be removed by hand carefully with a chisel. The pinwheel design was still popular in 1898 because it can be seen in the historic Conrad Caldwell house in Louisville.

11/07/2024

Thinking about doing a classic penny or hex tile for an upcoming bathroom remodel. Wondering – how much more work is it to keep clean than say, a floor with 8" square tile and grout lines?

(photo for example / not mine)

11/07/2024

Built in 1926 by my grandpa who cut and milled all the wood. My Mom was born in the living room in 1928. I was blessed to get to buy it in 1987. It’s not fancy, but it’s home.

11/07/2024

Gorgeous ✨🤍❤️

11/07/2024

Your thoughts about this?!

11/07/2024

Well, my husband walked out, yes I'm struggling but trying to be positive
He's always loved the kitchen and wouldn't let me do anything with it
Was my pet hate that uninspiring kitchen.....
He walked, I grabbed the paintbrush 💜💜💜
All done on a budget with paint and vinyls..... and a bit of imagination and hard work thrown in the mix 🤣
As i am a resin artist I made the clock and kitchen roll holder to match Colourway 💜

11/07/2024

Redecorated my living room to celebrate 18 months clean and sober WE DO RECOVER

11/07/2024

Some people may think it's ugly, as they said on my Facebook, but I loved doing it, I loved the result and I found it therapeutic. Unfortunately, people are very rude..