Inside The Hodgepodge House
While I was working on the outside of the Hodgepodge House, I was simultaneously working to make the inside worthy of the name.
When we first visited the house, we saw the fireplace, in all its plain whiteness, and said almost simultaneously, “that’s a tree.”
So, I painted a sky on the ceiling, and made a tree in the living room…
…which of course lights up at night:
We always wanted a secret passageway bookshelf, obviously. We didn’t really have the space for that, so I turned my closet doors into the next best thing:
…which of course lights up at night.
We got a set of kettles as a present, and the handles were shaped in a way that didn’t allow for easy hanging. I took that as an opportunity to make a space door in the kitchen. The obvious next right step!
On the day I created it, I put a tarp up across half the kitchen so Ron wouldn’t see it until it was finished.
When I heard him come in, I poked my head around the partition and said:
“I need three things from you. One, I need you not to look behind this tarp. Two, I need you to not ask any questions. Three, I need you to be okay with that.”
“Okay. Cool. Can I make a sandwich, though?”
We so get each other.
I welded brackets to hold the lids in place out of old kitchen tools and scrap metal, then painted corresponding planets for easier placement. Pluto will always be a planet to us, and if you look at the very bottom of the door, you will see our little planet with a heart representing.
