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Hi everyone! Thank you so much for taking time to to share your thoughts and opinions on our playroom rug situation.

If you’ve been following the commentary accompanying my original post, you know that lots of people have had lots of opinions on this topic. However, three clear favorites have emerged: the white and black damask, the pink and green circles, and the black with large pink and white dots. Click to continue »

You can "count" on me to stay away from TWB!

Many thanks to Tiny White Bungalow for the Bungalow Insanity shout-out on her blog.

If you aren’t familiar with Tiny White Bungalow, you may want to take a look at this recent blog entry to see how you too can keep your home vampire-free.

Hee hee!

As Julio will tell you, I’m not exactly decisive. I tend to agonize over the simplest decisions. Sadly, this is especially true when it comes to rehabbing the bungalow.

I can spend months researching something as simple as a kitchen faucet. But even if I do eventually place an order, I will drive myself crazy wondering if I’ve made the right decision. I’m always absolutely certain I could have found something better – the “perfect” whatever – if only I’d searched a little bit longer.

What does this any of this have to do with Photoshop, you ask? Well, we really need to find a rug for the girls’ playroom. As you’ve seen in recent photos, the floor up there is rather bare and uninviting.

playroom in its current state

I’d love for Chloe and Ginger to be able to sprawl out comfortably while they play or read books, but that isn’t really an option on the cold hard floor. Click to continue »

A few months back, a local photographer – Kim Campbell of Campbell Salgado Studio – came to the bungalow to photograph the insanity! Actually, it wasn’t all that insane – just a relaxing couple of hours of parents, kids and pugs soaking up the sunshine and smiling for the camera.

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Happy New Year everyone!

One of my resolutions this year is to get our house more organized. The scattered toys and endless clutter are making me positively crazy (as is renovation burnout, but that’s another topic for another post.)

Lately I’ve been thinking that if our house felt less chaotic, I might be able to enjoy it a bit more. So, to that end, I’ve been trying to establish a workable storage system upstairs in the playroom and in the girls’ bedrooms.

toy basket from Chloe's room

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Just in case you haven’t already heard, there’s a contest going on over at the 1912 Bungalow site.  Prizes include an Otis light fixture from Schoolhouse Electric, and two Home Depot gift cards in the amounts of $75 and $50, respectively.

Bungalow Insanity at the Holidays

Just upload a photo of your home decorated for the holidays and vote.  You can vote for your home, or for someone else’s home, but you can only vote once a day.  Voting ends December 23.  And if you don’t have a photo of your own home that you want to enter, you can always vote for us (posted under Bungalowgirl – Portland, Oregon).  A new light fixture would definitely make our season bright!  Happy holidays!

A big thank you to Dan Mark, an architect, architectural historian and house genealogist who has been following the posts on our home’s genealogy. Dan has generously augmented the information collected by Dawn of Bungalowcious with several fascinating discoveries of his own.

One Dan’s most exciting finds was this biography of Edwin Sylvester Burgan, the 1910 occupant of our home. Found on page 720 of the book History of the City of Spokane and Spokane County, Washington (Vol. III, S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1912, Spokane-Chicago-Philadelphia), the bio explains that Mr. Burgan was involved in several business ventures at the time of the 1910 census, including serving as President of the First National Bank in Spokane, Washington and serving as the President of the Burgan and Springer Hat Company of Portland, Oregon. Busy guy!

Our next door neighbors are pretty much the nicest neighbors anyone could ever ask for – friendly, kind, funny and basically just all-around-swell. We now need to add “unbelievably generous” to that long list of positive attributes. Check out amazing pre-Thanksgiving gift they bestowed upon us…

antique oak rocker

Speechless? Yeah. Us too.

Thank you Marcia and Brooks! We promise to take very good care of this beautiful new addition to the Bungalow Insanity family!

This was the status as of last night.  All the trim is finished, stained and polyurethaned.  We picked up our couch yesterday, and I am nearly done with the TV wiring.  A trip this weekend will keep me away from it until next week, but we could be watching movies in here within about a week!  And we are just two doors away from being 100% finished with this room.  I had to use a really wide angle lens to get the shots, so don’t be fooled into thinking the room is bigger than it is.  It’s only about 11×12′ in reality.

View from the doorway

View from the couch

View from outside the window