even more clever uses of bamboo…

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

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

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He was splitting and cutting bamboo…

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

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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.)

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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,

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

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

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

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I had mentioned our stairwell makeover, earlier.

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

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

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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

4 comments:

  1. Oh how lovely! What an awesome use for bamboo and cool looking to boot!!

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  2. Thanks for stopping by, megs! It's all working really well and it helps that we love how bamboo looks. :)

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  3. ha! too funny! i must say i like the shutters a lot though!

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  4. Thank you, kendra. :) You're so sweet for saying so. We like them a lot also.

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