dining room. although it has been painted for a long time i just have not shown it off. the windows are new though. if you look at the old picture you might notice that there is an ugly denim curtain on one of the walls. this curtain covers a hole in the wall where a window had been and was smashed out. when we moved in there were still shards of glass in the wall and window frame, but no longer!

the windows came from habitat for humanity, so it is never any guarantee that one will find a window that is exactly, or even close to, the size of the window frame. case in point, the window that is on the left side of the table is two totally different sized windows with a big trim to hide the evidence. the window business is a great example of where our two brains work perfectly together (i promise this is not newly wed bliss...we fight a lot about other stuff..hem hem, the white floor). i have an easy time picturing things in my head and just imagining random things together as a solution (the leaky basement and the front deck) and ian is amazing at knowing what the book says and how things SHOULD work, and of course is best at lifting heavy things. so the point is, at HFH there are a million windows in a hot parking lot in no order at all. so we walk and walk trying to find the perfect size only to discover that our hole in the wall (no, not our house, the actual hole is what i am talking about here) is not a common sized hole. so we decide to buy a taller window and just cut through the wall to make it fit. so we buy two windows to make up the width, different widths and slightly different heights and here you go...double paned windows that seal. hurrah!