Boys' quilts

Okay, so you know the saga of the beds in the Boys' room: We initially assumed they were twins, then when they were restored and returned to us we found out they were "three-quarter" size (between a twin and a full), and we had to scramble to order custom mattresses to fit, which arrived at 8am on the day of our open house.

What you don't know is that we had already bought twin-size quilts from Esh Valley quilts, a wonderful place run by an Amish woman on her farm by Paradise. Fortunately she was willing to exchange them for full-size quilts, but Dawn couldn't find two that would work in the same room, so we had to special-order them.

In the meantime, the photographers came to take pictures of the mansion. Since the Summer Kitchen and Paymaster's Office weren't ready yet, we used those quilts, even though one was a king-sized green "wedding ring" and the other a queen-sized "log cabin." Needless to say, they didn't go together.

Well, the new quilts are finally here:

On September 18, the photographers will be back to shoot the cottages, but now that the quilts are in the right place, we're going to have the same quilts in two photos! So we'll probably have to re-shoot the Boys' room, anyway.

Oh, some good news: There's a lot of interest in a room with two beds. When I found out we couldn't make those into a king bed, I thought we were doomed, and nobody was going to ever rent that room. Turns out there are a lot of women traveling together (especially mothers and daughters) that are finding us, even though I'm not advertising it anywhere.