Spring cleaning has begun at the Hardy Smith House

Sunny, cool, windy day at the Hardy Smith House. The northeast coast is about to get socked with another round of punishing snowstorms. I read in the news they just finished cleaning up from the monster storms two weeks ago.  Philadelphia is about to add another foot or two to the 70" inches they got so far this February! I had to mention that weather tidbit because it is such an amazing statistic.

Last night, I did some painting in the bathroom. The perfecting continues.  I even added some greenery at the top of the linen closet. I will add some spring color to that soon :) The full length mirror leaning on the side of the closet will be hung on that side. Just have to get the right hanging hardware for it. The greenery with a touch of spring color adds a nice accent to the top of the closet.

Tonight, a few church members from next door came over take away an old sofa left in the house when John bought it and a queen sized mattress-box-spring set for a 'garage-yard sale' tomorrow.  My patience finally paid off, that sofa and mattress set is GONE! Spring cleaning has started at the Hardy Smith House!  In the picture with the chandelier, you see the back window is boarded up. The other two windows out of view of the photograph are boarded up also. All three windows were blown out from the strong winds recently. I plan to paint the outside of the boarded up windows with a cute, floral design of some sort. I am no artist. Once the warm weather comes and stays, I will be out there painting :)

I look forward to seeing the formal dining room clean again. John plans to build a 'trap door' in the corner of the room that will lead to the downstairs area that John plans to utilize as additional storage space or possibility a recreation room once the area has been cleared of flint rocks, bricks, access dirt and sealed to prevent and or minimize water runoff damage from flooding rains.  So far John has excavated about 50 or so large flint rocks.  There are a few rocks he could not get out of the area due to their size. So we will have to put a chain around them and pull them out with the truck.

Yard work will begin soon. First, John plans to take down a dead water oak tree in the back yard with a chain saw, cut up and store the wood for burning in our beautiful fireplaces. We plan to use some of the bricks and flint rocks to build a walkway and short driveway in the front yard. Then tilling and reseeding the front and side yards with new grass will start. I am excited about getting outside to play in the dirt for awhile!

That is all to report today. Keep checking my blog for updates on the non stop improvements at the Hardy Smith House.