Landscape, pendant lights, barn doors

The landscapers started today - most of our job involves a whole lot of straw matting and grass seed. This is required for erosion control on the broad shoulders of the long driveway and any disturbed areas between the house and woods/pond.  We'll let the leaves fall and then probably mulch with pine straw in the spring (we definitely don't want to mow all that). They're also doing fine grading in the back yard with rye seed and straw to hold us over until spring when we'll get some sod.  They are building the circle driveway turn-around and preparing planting beds as well. We're just planting the front foundation areas and a few bigger plants that need time to get established. The crew also planted dogwood saplings along the driveway (the ones we bought way back in May!).  The whole job should be done tomorrow.

Kitchen pendant lights were hung earlier today, but we haven't yet seen them turned on and can't figure out where they are switched (that breaker was probably turned off for the install and they may not have turned it back on).  And the barn doors are up! We love them, they turned out just as we imagined/hoped.  Big high five to our painter Paul, who somehow made the reddish mahogany front doors and greenish poplar study beams and brown/tan knotty alder barn doors all match.