{"id":724,"date":"2010-01-09T13:56:25","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T20:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therealverticalhouse.com\/blog\/?p=724"},"modified":"2010-01-09T13:56:25","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T20:56:25","slug":"kitchen-window-casingssills-our-gingerbread-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therealverticalhouse.com\/blog\/?p=724","title":{"rendered":"Kitchen Window Casings\/Sills &#038; Our Gingerbread &#8220;House&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it finally happened! We finally have window casings and sills. Last year we didn&#8217;t really bother heating the kitchen (well, not \u00a0counting the space heater we would stick under the sink to keep the pipes warm) but this year we have a radiant heater! I&#8217;m so excited to no longer have to avoid our kitchen in the winter. I mean, it was SO COLD. Our kitchen is north facing, so it stays in shadows all winter. Cold, cold shadows. It&#8217;s amazing how well this radiant heater works though! And we no longer feel the drafts blowing in!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Windows Before by verticalhouse, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/verticalhouse\/4255064839\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4013\/4255064839_248d73d430.jpg\" alt=\"Windows Before\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The windows before we started work. Well, these are just the windows above the sink&#8230;there are three sets of windows like this in the kitchen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Kitchen During Work by verticalhouse, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/verticalhouse\/4255158013\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4013\/4255158013_ef4cccd000.jpg\" alt=\"Kitchen During Work\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During the work. This is under the above set of windows. The sink has been pulled out to run the baseboards behind it and install the window sill.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Window Sill! by verticalhouse, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/verticalhouse\/4255925702\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2707\/4255925702_08a1fb0c36.jpg\" alt=\"Window Sill!\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During work. Measuring the sills.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Window Casings!!! by verticalhouse, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/verticalhouse\/4255166505\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4001\/4255166505_721a034f0a.jpg\" alt=\"Window Casings!!!\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The kitchen is still disarray in this shot, but you can see a completed window &#8211; with casings and sill. All that is missing is a couple coats of paint. I plan on painting everything when the weather warms up a bit because I think painting in these temperatures is a waste of time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Kitchen Window Sill by verticalhouse, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/verticalhouse\/4256849141\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4011\/4256849141_f37dfe6aa6.jpg\" alt=\"Kitchen Window Sill\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>a sill a sill a sill! Now to fill them with trinkets!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Tiny and Sadie by verticalhouse, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/verticalhouse\/4257588380\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4064\/4257588380_88ab72596e.jpg\" alt=\"Tiny and Sadie\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sadie and Tiny say hello by the heater<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Sadie by verticalhouse, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/verticalhouse\/4256815877\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2747\/4256815877_90fbd42028.jpg\" alt=\"Sadie\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After weeks of work, we can finally put our kitchen back together. Sadie missed her &#8220;spot&#8221; by the window&#8230;although she loves having it back!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Living Room by verticalhouse, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/verticalhouse\/4257070216\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2763\/4257070216_7cb943159f.jpg\" alt=\"Living Room\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our living room scattered with kitten toys, records, and dvds. We were on a Bill Murray kick (Stripes is on the tv) while we made our gingerbread house.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Gingerbread &quot;House&quot; by verticalhouse, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/verticalhouse\/4257130916\/\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2797\/4257130916_7c49b004bd.jpg\" alt=\"Gingerbread &quot;House&quot;\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>hahaha it took us like 10 minutes to throw that thing together. We actually forgot about it  before Christmas, so the novelty of a gingerbread house was gone when our tree was out the door, but I knew it wouldn&#8217;t last for a year so we just kinda half assed it. More like quarter-assed it lol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it finally happened! We finally have window casings and sills. 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I&#8217;m so excited to no longer have to avoid our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[447,449,738,63,29,448,320,446,434,445],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealverticalhouse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealverticalhouse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealverticalhouse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealverticalhouse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealverticalhouse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/therealverticalhouse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealverticalhouse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealverticalhouse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealverticalhouse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}