even more clever uses of bamboo…

One Sunday morning, Jeff woke up with an idea and immediately went to work on it.

Meaning, when the coffee was made, I had bring it outside to him by his work table and the sawdust was already in piles.

He was splitting and cutting bamboo…

and joining the slats to very tall, narrow wooden frames…

to fix a problem we’ve had ever since one of our oak trees fell over (for no clear reason, and did not hit the house, only the second story deck adjoining the house---which I am happy to say, is all fixed now.)

The problem was the huge amounts of heat coming into our home’s windows that were once shaded by our very, tired tree.

Two tall, narrow windows in the middle of our stairwell---

here they are. Our whole stairwell has actually been getting a makeover and was in the middle of being painted when this picture was taken.

Jeff had thought indoor shutters would do the trick, and they did.

We could have settled for blinds---I had offered to sew some roman blinds and was pretty sure we already had fabric. I had even imagined the blog post I would write to show you how roman blinds are made.

While I was dreaming and scheming about my new blinds, thinking about what I notions I would need to get: grommets, cord…pausing a bit,

…‘cause I don’t want to get ahead of myself. I do like to really think things through…

Jeff stepped in with an idea that formulated in one night and two days later had materialized and is doing its job brilliantly.

I’ve learned to work quickly around here if I seriously want one of my ideas to happen.

I had mentioned our stairwell makeover, earlier.

Well, this was a thought we both came up with---a bamboo handrail.

I don’t think I could be any happier with it.

Because this, I love and makes me smile just about every time I run up or down the stairs.

Thank you, so very, very much, for stopping by! Your visit also makes me smile…every time.
~dale