poppyseed

our little house has a small addition on the front - a small foyer. the foyer was added just before we bought the house and because it was tacked on 70 odd years after the house was built, it doesn't have any heating duct work in it. it does however, have a small built in space heater. that said, us lorimers are too thrifty to actually use the spaceheater. so instead we lived in a somewhat chilly home all last winter. this was a stark contrast to our last home where we could not control the heat and lived in tropical temperatures all year long.

last year during our open house, tim and tracy suggested we install a blanket or curtain over the opening to the foyer to stop the warm house-air from getting sucked into the chilly foyer. that seemed like a good idea, but it wasn't something we got around to doing til yesterday. we now have a wool blanket separating the two spaces, and the difference is quite dramatic. i'm extremely pleased. my next attempt at keeping out the cold will be to buy or make some winter curtains, because whenever i'm beside a window (either in bed or on the couch) i feel a chilly draft. they're not even old windows. i haven't actually heard of 'winter curtains' before, but i'm sure they existed back in the days before central air.

further on the home-improvement/efficiency front, i'm about to head to canadian tire to buy a new showerhead. while brendan loves our shower because it's so tall that he can stand comfortably under it, i find that it's just high-enough that at my height i can't escape the spray when trying to shampoo my hair. but more importantly, we need a showerhead with a hose for filling buckets, cleaning paint trays and the like.

 

that is all.

 

it's all i see these days.