Walk, Knock, and Gawk

That's what Ken's cousin called her open house today. She and her family recently moved back in to their home after having it extensively renovated. They invited family, friends, neighbors, and passers by to come on over this afternoon and take a look around. It was beautiful, of course. They added on more square footage at the back of the house to create a modern sized kitchen. As for the rest of the house, it's more like they restored it than renovated it. I didn't walk around taking pictures of everything I loved, but here is one detail I had to pass along:

For a mailbox she had a custom made leather saddlebag done to her specifications on size, detail, and hardware. She actually googled to find someone who could do the job, and found a leather craftsman less than a mile away from her own home.

I don't think you'd need a custom made saddlebag to make this idea work - I'm sure even Ken and I could rig up some hardware to attach a recovered/used leather saddlebag and use it as a mailbox.

In our current home this idea would look really out of place, but Ken says we can remember it for our future retirement home in Montana (his new plan is for us to live in Iron Horse in Whitefish when he retires).