I'm Getting a Face Lift
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And . . . What Are YOU Renovating This Summer, Glamorous Reader? Your Garden? Your Kitchen? Your Knobs? Your Pulls? Your Husband? Or . . . Are You Just Slappin’ a Coat of Paint on Your Toe Nails and Calling It a Day?
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The face lift I’m jawing about is an enchanting new garden path winding through the trees to the Ask E. Jean hovel.
Here’s the pile of muddy Delaware River rock which I’m washing (washing! my Gawd!) before laying the path.
P.S.
Yes. I did visit the famous plastic surgeon, Dr. Mihye Choi of NYU and we talked about getting a face lift, but…………NOT YET! So let’s entertain ourselves, Refreshed Reader, and hear about what you are overhauling, installing, tearing-down, building-up, and revamping this summer:
I'm Getting a Face Lift
I like your face the way it is, E Jean. Saying.
In July I finally painted my living room the deep pink of cherry buds before they open in spring. It melds beautifully with the turquoise color of my music room and the fresh spring green of my kitchen and dining room. All my art pops so beautifully against those bold colors.
Sunday I picked up a HALF TON of pre-finished butterscotch oak hardwood flooring and brought it home to stack in my front hallway in anticipation of NEXT WEEK, when a very nice man named JP is going to pull out all of the DISGUSTING wall-to-wall beige carpet that fills my living room and music room and install PROPER WOOD FLOORS. I also ordered a Tuscan green velvet couch from a company in Cali that harvests and kiln-dries their wood sustainably, provides green-certified, pet-safe upholstery (thank you, Jesus!), and makes their cushion filling out of RECYCLED PLASTIC BOTTLES.
Sorry for the shouting but I'm just SO EXCITED. I'm not always great at navigating physical beauty. It's very emotionally complicated. But beauty in my house is a total, unbridled JOY.