I started working on the townhouse, again this morning. That had Tessie doing a happy dance.

I painted the rest of the bedroom walls. Then I started to paint the rest of the kitchen walls....They kind of drifted into the front hall, and then to the rest of the ground floor. The color is called Rain Gray, by Ceramcoat. First I thought that I would just tie the front hall and the kitchen together and leave the living room white.

Then the more I thought about it, the more I wanted darker walls. All of the rest of the walls in the house are darker and it just looked like I forgot about the living room.

A couple of days ago I found the perfect carpeting for the bedroom. It is a little darker than the green on the walls....I know. In the photo it looks lighter...Not so.

It is going to be Tessie's own little forest hideaway. I think that it will look good, once I get all of the white woodwork in place.

As soon as she saw that I was working on the house, she started moving in.

First came the pile of red suitcases. Then she started zapping furniture in place.

Did I tell you that she is back to wanting mid century modern in the living room? She is.

How do I know? It is all zapped into place and I am having to work around it.

The Dollar Store bookcase is not going to work on that wall. I am either going to have to do some rearranging or build a narrower one. I am thinking narrow and floor to ceiling. We shall see.

Zar finally talked her down from the upstairs. It isn't a good idea to use those stairs. They aren't even fastened in yet. They are just perched against the second floor landing.

Bug beer and cookies will calm her down every time. The only trouble is, Zar talked her down and into the living room area...

No putting in base boards or installing the kitchen wall with the two of them sitting there slurping and chewing.

I guess I will have to go up to the second floor and install carpeting, if I want any peace and quiet...So much for the kitchen......

See you tomorrow.

As usual, when I let Tessie have her head, she finds things that I didn't even know were missing.
Yesterday, she found a "Take a Seat" chair that I had pretty much forgotten about. I don't normally do modern, so it was stashed.

When I went back into the room to finish cleaning, she was hugging this chair. She said, "This has to be 60s! It is groovy!" She is beginning to speak the language now. I think I am in deep trouble.

This is what she found. It is a Ribbon Chair that was designed by Pierre Paulin in 1966.

I was curious about the history, so I went searching. Artifort in the Netherlands, that made it, is still making them over 50 years later. That's pretty remarkable. They are still selling the real chairs.

I was surprised at the number of chairs that I am familiar with, but didn't know where they came from, are still in production from Artifort. Artifort was named by combining Art and Comfort. I like it.

If you are at all interested in "modern" furniture, you should have a look. http://www.artifort.com/default.aspx I am thinking that I may have to make a few more of their pieces for the house. If you go, you will probably have to have google translate it from the Dutch for you.....Unfortunately, it doesn't translate everything. Just go to the "collectie" section and wander down the sub categories. Fauteuils is the chair section.

I had never seen the ribbon chair in a print fabric. That gives me ideas....

Another site that I stumbled onto the other day is a Flickr group. This one is huge. It's called the 1960's Interior Design and Residential Architecture
Group. http://www.flickr.com/groups/1960houselovers/pool/ There are some great ideas here for anybody interested in the period. The collection is so large that I still haven't gotten through the whole thing.

I don't have time to sit and look today. Laundry to do and house to clean. Too bad that Tessie refuses to zap any of that out of the way. She is searching for more 60s. Back to work.

See you tomorrow.