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4:10am May 5, 2015

Before and after photos of furniture my mom refurbished. It started with a plain brown wooden hutch, which she painted white on the outside and bright green in the inside. I didn’t know where she was going with the celery green paint, but she wanted it to look like it was glowing from within, and that worked really well. It reminds me of some Swedish furniture design I’ve seen where light or bright colors are used to make the room seem brighter at dark times of year. (My current apartment in Vermont seems to have been made under similar principles.)

The final picture shows green seat cushions on the chairs to match the green inside the hutch. I think she also replaced the handles on the hutch, she found something both unobtrusive, elegant, and cheap. So it wouldn’t distract from the main features.

I’m continually amazed at my mom and Anne and their ability to make and refurbish furniture. They can take something mediocre or even ugly and turn it beautiful.

My mom is preparing to sell the house (sort of a portable trailer-like thing, two of them, joined by a porch) before she moves. So she’s fixing up all kinds of things in ways I could barely have imagined. She also turned a bank of fluorescent lights into lamps hanging off wood panels that go where the fluorescent panels used to be. Things like that. And doing all this with myasthenia and autonomic dysfunction is no small feat either (I can say this with certainty, having inherited both from her).