Mirror Installations + The Zuber Screen and A Gracie Panel!

Hi Everyone,

Before we get into today’s topic, I apologize if you were expecting the HOT SALES to come out 24 hours ago or so. Yesterday afternoon, I had to have a cyst removed from my back.

This is practically unheard of in terms of timing. I sent a photo to my PCP, who saw me on Tuesday and then sent me to the surgery department on Thursday, who scheduled the surgery for the next day! I was lucky because they had a cancellation. Well, that procedure was yesterday, and a few hours later, in significant discomfort, all I could manage was doom-scrolling through Instagram.

Anyway, I’m feeling much better today, and all the Hot Sales are up to date. Please check them out. My favorite is Serena Lily, with some of their deepest discounts ever. Also, there are so many beautiful clothes at Nordy’s.

 

Okay, here’s what’s happening on the home front.

 

We left off the other day with the delivery of the Gracie panels. Of course, I had to check them out and then, just as quickly, carefully rolled them back up and put them back in their tube.

 

 

Above is one of the four wall panels of Gracie’s Hampton Garden. I haven’t booked the paper hanger yet but will this coming week. The photo doesn’t do it justice. It’s just as beautiful as I hoped it would be!

 

I received the alabaster chandeliers from Brass Light Gallery in Milwaukee three days ago. I opened one box, but I only opened the plastic. I don’t have a photo, but it looks fantastic. I need to get some better light bulbs.

 

I don’t know if I told you, but I returned to incandescent for the candle bulbs in the sconces.

 

Screw it. (haha pun is not intended and not even realized until editing!) I have yet to find an LED bulb that doesn’t go gray when dim. I need to buy a bunch of different bulbs and try them out. In the meantime, you can still get specialty bulbs in their incandescent form. I use 40-watt bulbs, but I never turn them up all the way up (maybe 25%-30%), so they do last a long time.

Bob, the electrician, needs to send his dudes over here. I contacted him to come back two weeks ago, but he refuses to make an appointment. Eight light fixtures still need to be installed. I intensely dislike having to be a nag and chase after people to do their job.

 

This is one thing Robert, my GC, has never done to me unless I’m forgetting. haha

 

If I need something done by Brendan and Eugene, I never have to wait more than a few days, usually sooner.

Speaking of B and E, they graced me with their presence this week for three mirror installations and the Zuber screen in the lower entry.

One mirror is over the Milling Road Chest. I’ve had that mirror for years, and it weighs a ton. No wait. That’s not right. I think it weighs at least two tons! It’s also missing a couple of rosettes. They are here somewhere, I believe. But if I can’t find them, rosettes are not difficult to come by.

 

The second mirror is the Ballard Design smaller Louis Phillipe mirror.

 

The one below isn’t my mirror. It’s the one I was supposed to get, but it went missing.

 

 

I got it for under 200 bucks, and I think that included shipping, so I can use that money for something else. It weighs about as much as a loaf of bread, haha. Okay, it’s a bit heavier—maybe a medium-sized cat. It is not made of wood, but who cares? I don’t have a picture of it yet because I’m waiting for the sconces to be installed.

However, the big treat is the mirror installation over the fireplace.

 

 

Above is the mirror shortly after it arrived at Dave Poutre’s frame shop on Charles Street last July.

The first shots of it in situ were taken at about 3:00 today, so the light wasn’t great. The night-time shots coming up are better.

 

I held the camera up high for this shot above.

Below, I was standing on the third step from the top.

 

Sorry, the image looks a little fuzzy and also a lot more expansive than it is.

However, you can see the proportions and overall look of things.

 

Are those Fibonacci proportions, Laurel?

 

Do you mean the Golden Mean? 1: 1.618. I always remember that because my son Cale’s birthday is 6-18.

The mirror is very close to that.  It is 45″ wide by 75″ tall, and the perfect proportion is 73″ tall. However, I felt the mirror needed to be a bit taller. That’s fine.

 

I just added the image above to my Instagram. Yes, it’s real gold leaf and beautifully antiqued.

 

 

B & E are so funny. I wish I had recorded this. I told them I wanted the mirror sitting on the mantel but also flush against the wall.

They said, “I wish you had told us first.”

Yeah, that would’ve been nice. Haha, but I told them I knew you guys would figure it out. I left the room, and an hour later, it was done and perfectly, too.

xo,

 

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