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Evolution Of A Bedroom
Blerg. I either have food poisoning or a stomach bug today. But thanks for all the stool love this morning, guys (wait, that sounds kinda gross). And as for this afternoon, while I attempt to avoid breathing on anyone else in this house (who are all thankfully unscathed so far), I thought it might be fun to create a little "timeline" of how each room in our house has evolved, since it's definitely never an overnight transformation around here. And given our copious bedroom updates, we thought it was a fine place to start. So without further ado, here's how the room has evolved over the last twenty months since we moved in. It's still not done, but it has definitely come a long way – and it's really fun to look back on some of those "middle" stages and wonder what the heck we were thinking. Haha. Thank goodness for trial and error!
This rundown is a pretty great reminder that small changes (along with a few big ones) can really breathe new life into a room as you learn what you love and how you'd like to live. We've actually come to a place where we wholeheartedly believe that over-time tweaks are half the fun (I'd probably want to move every year if I could only do a room once and then had to live in that frozen-in-time-result without changing a thing). So here's the very first shot of our bedroom that we shared the day we moved in. Pretty much a blank canvas.
First we just plopped our furniture down on the floor and didn't even have a bed for the first three weeks or so. Getting up every morning from a ground-height mattress = not our fondest memory.
Then we got Ed the Bed since we were overwhelmingly excited to have such a giant room to work with (our old bedroom was around 10 x 11′ and this room is 16 x 16′ – so we thought something big and frame-y would look awesome in our cavernous room).
Then we got this duvet on clearance from West Elm, but John only let me get it under the stipulation that we would ebay it if we found something we liked more down the line. Hindsight = 20/20. We never should have settled and definitely should have held out for something we both loved. Oh well, live and learn. Right now it's neatly folded in our playroom just in case we decide to use it/the fabric for some other space (curtains for Clara's big girl room, etc). Otherwise it'll definitely hit ebay someday.
Next came our big ol' snowball of a chandelier, which is still one of our favorite things to stare up at before bed or squint up at in the early morning. Here it is hanging oddly low thanks to that top bar of Ed the Bed (it looks crazier in this pic than it did in person, but it still wasn't quite right).
We struggled with Ed for a while, tweaking him to remove those top posts since they were just too encroach-y with the chandelier. Oh and we got a nice big jute rug to cozy up the splintery old wood floor. Here's that phase.
Then we found two Alaskan botanical prints at a yard sale (we honeymooned in Alaska, so we thought they were sweet for our bedroom) and hung them on either side of the bed with Ramsey in the middle.
Things pretty much stagnated there for a while until Ramsey was broken during a book shoot (he jumped off the wall in the kitchen when no one was even in there) and we decided to hang the botanicals inside the bed posts instead. And then we found our new rug at a local outlet, so we pulled the old rug out (with plans to use it under our dining table or in our sunroom eventually – or craigslist it if we don't like it in either space down the line). Our new super-discounted outlet rug definitely breathed life back into this stuck/stagnating room. So grateful. Sometimes it takes changes like this to jump-start things again once you've hit a wall.
Then in a flurry of trying new things, we gave three different prints (picked up for $2.99 from Ikea a while back) above the bed along with different pillows from around the house…
… only to decide we preferred the botanicals and another pillow combination (along with some lamps that we actually bought for the bedroom instead of just using leftovers from our first house's living room).
Then we finally put on our big kid pants and decided to just give the bed a try on a wall that we previously thought would be way too challenging (thanks to an off-centered window on one side and a nook on the other side). At first it looked crazytown…
But after we re-hung some art/rearranged some furniture that we already had, we ended up here.
And then we gave Ed a little haircut.
And then we made an upholstered headboard to cozy things up a little more.
Next we finally painted the walls a darker color (Rockport Gray by Ben Moore) which definitely helped the headboard and all the thick white trim pop (John wanted to do it for months and he finally wore me down). Boy was right. We love it so much more in this moodier sleepier color.
It's especially noticeable how much the new color accents the chunky white trim around the sink nook. Such a difference!
Of course we still have plans to:
- refinish the floors
- possibly paint the ceiling a light light blue color
- furnish the entire bare wall across from the bed
- eventually turn a window into a door that leads out onto the deck
- someday vault the ceiling so it's sweetly peaked (how cozy would that be?)
… so we'll have to keep you posted. But it's pretty interesting to look back at all of these phases of evolution, sort of like a time capsule of where we were, where we were trying to go, and where we are now.
Actually when we look back in our archives, every single room in our first house evolved the same way – moving things around, using what we had, altering things to work, getting new things along the way, and hitting up lots of outlets and thrift stores along with affordable retailers like Ikea and Target to keep things wallet friendly. Did we make mistakes? Sure! Did we learn as we went. Absolutely! If we could rewind would we skip all of those wrong moves? Who wouldn't! But it's pretty cool that even with those mistakes, you can come pretty far (and learn a ton about yourself and what ya love) by just giving things a shot and letting a room evolve over time. Sometimes over a long a$$ time. Haha. But the journey is part of the fun, right? Our first house took us 4.5 years to figure out, so maybe we're getting a tiny bit faster in this one?
Although some other rooms are completely untouched, so maybe not. Haha.
It's funny how some things stayed, like:
- Ed the bed (although he did get that trim)
- our free hand-me-down dresser from John's parents
- our leaning mirror (which John got me as a wedding present back in 2007)
- our $50 Ikea chandelier
Meanwhile, other stuff came in from other rooms, like:
- the Hobby Lobby mirror that used to hang in the living room
- that small white cabinet from the dining room
And other items went out, like:
- the old rug
- the old side tables (both of which we'll reuse or craigslist for loot to put back into other tweaks)
Thankfully even things like those old too-small yard sale side tables were just $11, and we'll probably get to use those in Clara's big girl room (and can always resell them for at least that much) so it's a good lesson that just because you buy things, you don't have to be married to them. Undoing something like a paint color or an upholstery fabric can take a day of work, but it's hardly irreversible. And it just might be the key to making it through a not-sure-where-we're-going phase and onto another love-it-so-much-more phase. Heck, even if over time you realize that a furnishing or accessory isn't the best choice for a room, there are definitely other rooms where they can go to live (like our blue stool story from this morning). We love keeping things flexible and taking a completely reversible approach to making our house a home. It's just so much less intimidating and final than having some unspoken can't-make-mistakes rule (even if you wait for years between decisions, there's no guarantee that you'll love each choice- sometimes you just have to live and learn).
It's fun to see all of these bedroom evolution pics on one page, right? So stay tuned as we slowly work our way through all of our other rooms (probably on and off over the next few months – or years if we fall off) just to see where they've been and where they're going. The goal would be to keep these posts updated as we go, and to link to them from our House Tour page – or another page called Room Evolutions – so anyone who wants to see details on a specific room could click on that room and see these rundowns with a bunch of links to all the projects during those different phases (a number of readers have actually requested that we group room updates that way).
Have you ever snapped photos of a room over time as it evolved? Did it take more than one paint color to get it right? Were you surprised to see what stayed and what went? Were you shocked at how much of a difference some free changes like rearranging the floor plan or tweaking furniture (like cutting Ed's posts) can make? Did little homemade touches (like an upholstered headboard) end up making all the difference? I think our DIY headboard along with our giant pineapple-based lamps are our favorite things in the room these days.
What's your favorite thing in your bedroom?
Psst- This month we're making a trip out to visit John's grandma in Huntington, WV, so if anyone has an awesome house that they'd like us to crash (a la these) in either Huntington or Charleston WV, we'd love to check out your digs and hopefully stop by (just send your submission pics to email@example.com). Woot!
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Yes for house evolution! I take photos of our house around the anniversary of us buying it each year to see how far the rooms have come. It's been a blast to go back and look at so far. : )
Hey Sherry, it would be fun to also have a budget breakdown for each room on this and any other future "Evolution of…" pages. More work for you!
This was a lot of fun!! Thanx for putting it together!
My favorite pieces of furniture you have are your old bedside tables. I LOVE the style! They would be cute in a big girl room for sure! Or even a little gentleman themed boys room. you know all Mad Men look! :) and yes I now, down the road whenever that may be!!
This is so true. I am struggling with our couches and wall color right now…and I honestly feel shame that I made some mistakes! My living room is the same color and as your new bedroom shade, but I'm afraid it makes the room look too dark because our whole house feels dark. Its good to know you make changes, and that nothing is perfect immediately.
Any tips on how to brighten up a space despite a darker wall color?
oh please oh please I want your side tables if you decide to sell them!
I almost choked on my coffee when I read "Huntington, WV". We are just up the road in Ona (between Huntington and Charleston)! We bought our house just a year ago and have been living the dream making it a home together. We have a lot of work to do–a partially unfinished basement with an awkward half bath, small open floor plan, backyard deck potential, etc. A lot of our challenges have come from marrying our tastes and creating that unified vision from our untapped potential. We might not be the best "House Crashers" post, but we'd be happy to share what we've created so far and chit chat about where we could go!
You bedroom is beautiful and inspiring. thanks for sharing it with us. I hope you feel better soon! Unless it's the 9 month flu, in which case it may be a few months before you feel better ;) ;)
I loved this post. It makes me realize that it's ok if rooms take a long time to finish! Hope you feel better soon!
I did a double-take at the first photo, because I suddenly got unsure if this was for your old house. It's crazy how it looks so different with a different wall cover and no rug on the floor.
Feel better soon! Do we get extra points for counting how many pics included Burger? (3) I love how he seems to pose for the camera!
Hope you feel better Sherry!
We've been in our lil house for a year or so and the big news in our bedroom is we finally got a bedside table…not two, only one :) besides that…nada. Haha
You can see the table here
So sorry if this posts twice, the iPad is weird sometimes.
So sorry you're feeling ill Sherry – hope you feel better soon!
I found this post particularly interesting/exciting! Like other people have said, it's so very reassuring to know that a room can look just okay or even be a real mess for awhile during the process of getting to a great state. Thanks also for the reminder to just try switching things around when you feel stuck – I've been frustrated with my bedroom setup for awhile now and I think tonight I'll recruit the hubby to help me move things around. If we hate it all we'll have wasted is some energy and time, no big deal. Thanks for backtracking and finding all these pictures and post-links for us! Can't wait to be reminded/see the progress for the other rooms!!
Baby P #2??
It's like you read my mind! I was just telling the boy toy about your bedroom and all the changes it's been through and I was trying to look through all these different bedroom posts to give him an idea.
Now I can just show him this :)
Amazing how much it has changed, I love it with the gray paint….good choice!
It seems like my rooms change on a weekly basis. The bad thing is all of the extra decorating "stuff" that I am left with to find a place for =)
Somewhere I missed that you moved the bed so I got kinda confused with the pictures!! Of course, had I read the text…
And I just have to say that Random Burger in those shots made me so happy!!
We are picking a blue for our daughter's room to match her coralish/watermelonish pink damask quilt and I love the blue you picked out prior to the grey, do you remember the name? Thanks!
Oh, and PSS…if you decide to craigslist the nightstands, don't. Just email me and I will gladly buy them from you and pay for shipping. Seriously. Not kidding. They match my dresser.
so you guys inspired us (the hubs and I) to repaint our bedroom- Rockport Gray! We love it! Our ceiling was blue from our original bedroom colors but we are not loving it. I think we will paint it some shade of gray…
Hope you get feeling better soon Sherry! I just had food poisoning last week, not fun at all!
I can't tell you how much I love this post! It was really fun seeing how the room evolved. And I love seeing all the tweaks on one post. Makes me wanna see how I can make my bedroom better.
Oh and side note, I love your ikea chandelier! Seeing it again in this post just made me want it even more! On my way to their site right now…
When do you think you'll switch Clara from a nursery to a "big girl room"?
I don't want to be "that" obnoxious commenter, but I learned after much googling a few months ago that stomach bug is spread by… how do I say this… miniscule droplets of the sickies. Ew. And bleach is the only thing that kills it. My hubby had it twice in two months, and I was trying desperately to keep myself and our little girl from catching it. It seemed to work! I quarantined him to the guest room/bath and wouldn't let him in the kitchen until he was better. And I sent him in with the bleach and papertowels :) A mama friend told me that real blue grape juice works too. I drank it and who knows if it helped or not but we never got it! Feel better :)
favourite thing in our bedroom? The books I'm reading. hands down.
Next favourite – the curtains I sewed from sari fabric purcahsed at Value Village, and the two dressers we found on kijiji. But those are tied with the leaping lizard green we chose for the walls.
From the looks of it Ed's post were never meant for y'all. I forgot that you guys started morphing him back from the beginning. The room has come a long way and looks great! It will be interesting to see what it looks like in another two years.
I'd actually buy those nightstands from you if you're willing to give them up! I'd need the dimensions to make sure they work w/ our bed, but if they work I'd pay $40 or $50 for the pair.
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No brainer! Atherton's financially under water, and Hol/Palmer Park is a great wedding spot! But I don't get how Gross can be $81K and net can only be $12K. If I was running the project the net would be about 70% of gross. That is WAY too little to net... something is fishy.
Also we could have many other sources of revenue if citizens would get into the 21st century. Annex a few businesses on El Camino for sales tax revenue, etc. Been brought up dozens of times. Council is stuck in the 19th Century. Sigh.......
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March 2015
Well, if the first two months are any indication of how the rest of the year will be, I'd suggest we'd better observe the 'Fasten Seat Belts' sign and pay attention, because it feels like the planets are shifting around our personal baggage in the over-head compartment at a feverish pace. But don't panic; it's nothing a calm, quiet mind can't handle - while you're flailing about like a whirling dervish on the dance floor of your favorite music venue - until the planets calm down and give us a happy landing.
(Note: a monthly astrology report is not in the making, but we here at Ken Owen on Drums™ might consider making ourselves and our magic 8-Ball available for parties. Send us a mental message with any requests. ps to Paul Olguin: I heard that, and you should be ashamed of yourself.)
Upon reviewing the gig calendar for March, we were taken with how unique the music scene is here in San Francisco, and we humbly submit the following examples as evidence:
Soul and R&B (The Soul Delights) and Blues (Captain Casual) in a coffee shop
Western Swing (Big B and his Snake Oil Saviors) in an organic pizzeria
Classic Country (The Seducers) in a surf bar near the ocean
Jazz and surf (Jinx Jones) at a bookstore
With the usual residence gigs with Randy Craig (jazz), Mitch Polzak (country,rock-a-billy), Chris Ford (blues/country), and a very special gig with jazz organist Robert Kennedy, we can look forward to a month where we can howl at the moon and use music, dancing, and laughter to get us through any planetary mis-alignment. Please check the gig calendar for details on each show.
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And why Google Place deserves your immediate attention.
The majority of consumers, 59 percent consider ratings and reviews an important factor in selecting a business, according to the 2010 15miles/comScore Local Search Study. However only 27 percent actually use ratings and reviews in their purchase process. As it turns out, the reason for the difference in importance and usage is the availability of ratings and review content for consumers to use.
Only 23 percent of consumers have submitted a rating or review online, the study found. So if ratings and reviews are important to consumers, it then stands to reason that businesses and brands with more content will be considered and selected by consumers more often.
Tip #1 – Ask existing customers to rate your business.
Many ratings and review sites like Yelp discourage this practice, stating it affects "authenticity" of the rating. I disagree; asking for the review is simply the extension of an off-line business building behavior of asking customers to refer or recommend a business and the first vital step to getting content. Below is a picture of a point-of-purchase reminder used by a local deli near my home to increase the amount of ratings about its business.
Ideas I have seen used by businesses asking for reviews include:
Now we also need to cover some of the "don'ts " associated with reviews. Asking for a review should not be confused with paying for reviews. Clearly the practice of paying for reviews should not be considered. Avoid giving a discount as an incentive to writing a review.
Finally, leave friends, family, and yourself out of the process. Nothing is worse than a review written by an insider or promotional in nature e.g., "You have to try their lobster mashed potato special on Wednesday night for only $12.95."
Tip #2 – Make Google your focus first.
Google last week announced changes in ratings and review content for Google Places. The intent of these changes is to develop more Google-specific ratings and reviews content for consumers to access. According to its blog post "…we've heard loud and clear that reviews help you find the places that are right for you, especially when you're able to get recommendations based on your tastes and those of your friends." Accordingly, Google has removed third-party site review snippets from Google Place Pages in favor of its own content. In the past, we would have recommended that businesses target their efforts to sites like Yelp or Citysearch as these act as citations and provide benefit in optimizing Google Place Pages. And while reviews on other sites still act as citations for your Google Place Page, your emphasis should shift toward building content directly on Google.
Additionally, consumers are more apt to review a business that has claimed and built out the content on its Google Place Page so this is a good place to start.
Tip #3 – Monitor your reviews and have a response plan.
Inevitably, someday a dissatisfied customer will post something about your business, so be prepared. Here are some techniques for responding to a bad review:
Here is an example using these tactics:
Thank you for your comment. We are sorry that you did not enjoy your recent visit to our business. I would like to help correct the treatment you received, please contact me at 555.1234 at your earliest convenience so that we might improve our improve customer service.
Consumers do not expect all businesses to have five-star ratings. They do, however, expect businesses to respond and deal with issues. Ratings and reviews provide business owners with critical feedback on how consumers view their offerings, service, etc. Use this feedback to help make your business better.
Be on the look out for fraudulent or competitor negative comments. But be careful how you respond. Most sites provide a process for flagging inappropriate reviews. I was amused the other day to see a review for restaurant A that received a less-than-good review with a comment that the food was so much better at restaurant B. The owner of restaurant A simply left a comment on the review that the review was posted by the owner of restaurant B's wife.
Ratings and reviews are in high demand by consumers and can be a powerful way to increase business. Get engaged with your customers to increase the online dialogue so more consumers can help select your business.
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During the last two weeks I revisited the formula posted earlie in my blog:
with some modifications in flour composition.
Each time I return to this formula I am amazed about the eae of the mix and bake and the richness and quality of the outcome.
I won't repeat the whole process here, just as a reminder:
1. Preferment with wholegrain or medium rye, 80% hydration, 10% of mature starter, ripe after ca. 12 hours.
2. Fairly short mix, if using yeast the bulk proof is about 30 to 60 minutes, the final is 60 to 90 minutes.
I used the Shipton Mill Irish Soda Bread flour for the first time - it's a high extraction flour which has still bits of bran in it - that is why I call it "almost wholegrain wheat" in my formulas. A miche using this flour only is on my TODO list.
Added a comment with another take on this formula (30% rye), now with crumb shot:
Here some pictures:
This bread is based on the "Mischbrot" with 50% rye.
Here the straight formula:
Wholegrain Rye 23% ( used in preferment)
Medium Rye 27%
Wholegrain Spelt 20%
(Almost) Wholegrain Wheat 21% (Shipton Irish Soda Bread flour)
Bread flour 8%
Salt 2%
Instant Yeast 0.3%
The process is as in the above post.
Below a crumb shot:
Very deep, rich flavor, and a surprising lightness.
The following pictures shows the results of another bake, from left:
40% rye with wg rye in the starter, medium rye and bread flour for the remaining flours (scaled at 750g)
70% rye with wg rye in the starter, medium rye and Shipton's Irish Soda Bread flour for the rest (scaled at 750g)
An experiment with desem type starter, 100% wg wheat (scaled at 1500g)
Here the crumb shots, from left:
70% rye, 40% rye, WW
The details:
70% Rye - straight formula
Wholegrain Rye 28% (from preferment at 80% hydration)
Medium Rye 42%
(Almost) Wholegrain Wheat 30%
40% Rye straight formula:
Wholegrain Rye 20% (from preferment at 80% hydration)
Medium Rye 20%
Water 72%
Bread Flour 60%
100% Wholegrain Wheat with desem starter
I built the preferment with wholegrain wheat at 50% hydretion, inoculated with a small amount of rye starter, over two elaborations (24 hours each at ca. 18C ambient temperature).
The straight formula I used:
Wholegrain Wheat 100%
Water 75%
Flour from preferment: 30%
Bulk proof ca. 2 hours, final 3 hours, at ca. 24C
This was a first try, and I am pleased with it. It developed a great wheaty taste after three (!) days.
In a comment to my "Holiday Bake" blog Andy posted a formula for the Welsh tea bread Bara Brith, which I made today according to his formula with great success.
The formula mentions nothing about the baking profile - I made a 1300 g loaf in a tin, and baked for 50 minutes, starting at 230C and gradually turning the heat down to 170C after 40 minutes.
And I didn't use all of the tea. But the formula gave us a really great tasting fruit bread with a slight aftertaste of black tea.
Looks like it has no chance to age ... (Some sources say this gets even better over time.
Here a couple of pictures:
-Update 14/09/11: added some photos of 100% WW and 70% WG Rye
-Update 15/09/11: added crumb shots of 100% WW and 70% WG Rye
Initially I only planned to bake two kinds of bread that fitted well into a family holiday schedule:
7.00 being woken by our 5 year old
7.15 to 7.30 preparing pre-ferment (rye sour or biga)
8.30 breakfast
9.30 to 19.00 being busy with having fun
19.30 to 22.30 baking time
As it turned out this schedule worked very well, but peer pressure from TFL and the family made me bake a much greater variety of bread, specifically: Bara Brith, Pain de Campagne with variations, 70% Rye sourdough with variations, Potato Bread, 100% Wholewheat Sourdough, Pizza, White French Bread
Unfortunately I can't post many pictures as the camera charger gave up during the holiday, but I will bake some of the breads again in the near future and post photos then.
Notes about the formulae (explicit formulae follow below):
Bara Brith: I used Elizabeth David's recipe – it is a very dry dough, so I added a bit more milk. The original uses 150 ml milk per 450g flour, I used 170g milk. I also used a different flour mix: 400g strong white flour (Hovis) plus 50g wholewheat flour (Tesco's strong stoneground organic). Very nice result. Below my first try, with a bit of Welsh countryside:
Pain de Campagne after DiMuzio (I have his "Appendix Of Formulas" on my phone). Once by the book and once with biga and 50% wholewheat. Both turned out nice, but the latter one could be tweaked.
Potato Bread (after Elizabeth David). I used the original formula – this uses 4.4% salt. As I had no idea how potatoes would affect salinity I went for it. Nice bread (smell, consistency), but too salty. Couldn't eat it. I'll retry with 2% salt.
French bread: 300g flour, 200g water, 6g salt, 2g instant yeast. Mixed and proofed in the evening, retarded in fridge and baked before breakfast.
100% Wholewheat Sourdough, inspired by DiMuzio and Andy, great result, formula given below.
70% Rye sourdough with variations. Details given below.
It was quite amazing to see how all of this baking fit in with our busy holiday schedule, without putting too much strain on family life.
100% wholewheat sourdough:
Straight formula:
Wholewheat flour 423g (100%)
Water 317g (75%)
Salt 8.5g (2%)
Yield 748.5g (177%)
Flour from Soaker: 33% at 75% hydration
Flour from preferment: 33% at 75% hydration
Soaker (kept in fridge for 12 hours):
Flour: 141g
Water: 105g
Preferment (kept on bench for 12 hours, at 22C):
WW flour: 141g
Mature rye starter (80% hydration): 25g
Adjusted Dough:
Salt: 8.5g
Soaker: 246g
Preferment: 246g
Bulk proof at 24C: 1.5 hours
Shaped into loose boule,
Final proof: ca. 2 hours
Reshaped boule into loose envelope shape (as in some of the Pane di Altamura videos)
baked immediately at ca. 230C for 30 minutes without steam.
Complex taste and quite open crumb for a 100% wholegrain bread.
Photos of the bake on 14/09/11 (a 750g loaf)
The dough after final proof (could have done a little longer, but started to get fragile)
After shaping (right into the oven from here):
And after the bake:
The crumb of the 100% wholewheat bread is not great, nowhere near the nice open structure of the bread I made in Wales, although I think this one tastes even better. I attribute the crumb appearence to a number of causes:
I rushed this bread (a mix of family duties and misjudgement of the dough development)
The starter was slightly over its maximum
The flours I used here were quite different: I am running out of stock and had to use a mix of Canadian high gluten wholewheat with low gluten wholewheat (both from Waitrose), whereas for the holiday bread I used Tesco's strong organic stoneground wholewheat.
I stretched the dough too much when shaping.
I'll work on this and report back in a separate post.
70% Rye with variations
Update 14/09/11: Got the percentages slightly wrong when I wrote my notes - this now reflects what I actually baked. Must have been tired ...
These breads are based on the German Mischbrot formula which I posted earlier
Straight Formula:
WG Rye flour: 70%
WG Wheat flour: 30%
Water: 75%
Salt: 2%
Instant Yeast: 0.3% (optional)
WG Rye flour from preferment: 28% at 80% hydration, (using 10% ripe WG rye starter, 12 hours on bench)
WG Wheat flour from soaker: 30% at 74% hydration (12 hours in fridge)
WG Rye flour from scald: 22% at 80% hydration, after cooling kept in fridge
I used different amounts of instant yeast to stagger the breads – I could only bake one loaf at a time.
Bulk fermentation ranged from 45 min to 2 hours, final proof for 1 hour at 22C.
The loaves were shaped with wet hands into rounds for freestanding bake.
I made 4 variations of this bread; all had a wonderfully complex taste:
Without soaker and scald, with 20% sunflower seeds
as given
as given, plus 20% sunflower seeds
as given, plus 3% caraway seeds
Despite the quite strong taste these breads go very well with all sorts of foods, even jams. Stilton cheese complements the bread flavours especially well.
Photos of the bake on 14/09/11 (two 750g loaves)
A very pleasing bread.
We're packing for our holiday in Wales, and the prospect of having 10 days of Chorleywood bread from the local shop let my wife say:
Juergen, You'll bake the bread, won't you!
This will be my first holiday to take electronic scales, thermometer, dough knife, scoring knife, silicon baking sheets ...
Did I forget anything?
This is my first attempt at bagel-style bread - Obwarzanek Krakowski :-)
I used the bulk formula given in the wall street article. Thank you, GSnyde for the inspiration.
My version of thar formula reads:
Wheat flour (T55) 90%
Light Rye 10%
Water 48%
Sugar 3%
Salt 1.5%
Instant Yeast 0.5%
Butter 2.5%
Scaled at 100g per obwarzanek.
Bulk rise 45min at 26C, saped, rested for 10 minutes
boiled with 1 tsp honey in 4 l water
baked at maximum heat without steam fot 14 minutes
I am very pleased with the looks. They taste deliciuous, very slightly sweet. Quite authentic, as far as I can remember from my two visits to Krakow. They could be a bit chewier.
Have to work on joining the ends.
My Wife and I decided to reverse some of the effects than my good bread had on our waistline (nice bloom ...).
The diet of choice for my wife is the "Scarsdale Meical Diet", carried out after a book she got in a charity shop years ago (British edition of the "Scarsdale Medical Diet" by Tarnower, 1985).
This diet calls for "Protein Bread", which hasn't been available in the UK, so the editors provided a recipe.
Please take a look at my outcome first:
The original formula (tinned loaf on the left):
Wholewheat Flour 78%
Soya Bean Flour: 22%
Water: 72%
Vinegar: 0.8%
Sugar: 1.3%
Salt: 0.8%
Instant Yeast: 0.87%
I baked this bread according to the recipe, and it turned out edible, but quite dense with a strong soy bean taste which didn't integrate well with the wheat flavour (in my opinion). My wife's remark: Not quite your standard.
However, she was happy (only having 1 slice a day), but I wasn't.
I researched the Internet and TFL about adding soya flour, and found that nobody recommends adding more than 10%. Hm.
I then thought I could use the original proportions, but do things I learned about here on TFL to improve the outcome:
My second approach to "Protein Bread" (bread on the right in photo above) was using a wholewheat sourdough and a soaker, and not use sugar and vinegar, and I added more salt.
Wholewheat Flour: 78%
Salt: 1.6%
Wholewheat flour from starter: 29%
Hydration of starter: 100%
I made the soaker from the remaining water and wheat and left it at ambient temperature for about 5 hours.
The starter matured for about 14 hours at 28C.
The dough had a nice feeling after I mixed soya flour, salt, soaker and starter, and id didn't need much development.
During the 2 hour bulk proof I folded twice. The final proof in a basket took about 90 minutes.
The result is very different from the yeasted loaf (I expected it to be): Not dense at all. And the wheat clearly dominated the taste in a nice way. Quite appealing, actually.
With the background taste of soya I can imagine this bread alongside Japanese dishes such as Miso-braised mackerel, or even with Natto on top (Do I hear a scream from the Japanese corner?) I'll try that after I finished my diet...
This experience reminded me of the cartoon Yakitate Japan ( I saw only the first episode), where a baker explains to the young baker-hero that good bread is made with the topping in mind. Does anyone know where I could get Yakitate Japan DVDs in the UK?
Inspired by the recent blogs about Pane di Altamura by Franko
and David Snyder
and by the then hot weather I decided to try out this intersting bread.
In Britain I found three suppliers of Italian flours, so I ordered some.
I got semola di grano duro rimaccinata (the semolina used for bread) by Divella, from near Bari. The grains seem to be a blend from European countries.
I also got tipo 00 soft wheat flour "La Farina di Don Arcangelo", and durun semolina by the same make, both from Altamura. The semolina is coarser and makes wonderful pasta.
Here a picture of the flours:
No 1: TRS fine semolina (durum), which is availlable in Asian shops. Origin: EU countries (to compare)
No 2: La Semola di Don Arcangelo, from Altamura
No 3: Semola di grano duro rimaccinata by Divella, milled near Bari
No 4: La Farina di Don Arcangelo, from Altamura (tipo 00)
No 5: Shipton Mill No 4 organic strong white flour (my current standard flour, to compare)
To try out the Italian flours I wanted to make a bread I knew well: I used the Pugliese formula I learned at the Lighthouse Bakery with two changes:
1. I used 20% semola rimaccinata and 80% tipo 00 (for biga and dough)
2. I found an interesting baking profile in Italian bread blog: Preheat at maximum temperature, bake for 60min with no steam and turn to 200C immediately.
The result is quite amazing, my best Pugliese yet. The taste is not as sweet as the one made with English flour, but it has more depth, and an amazingly elastic yellow crumb. A good contrast to the thick crunchy crust.
Next I tried an Altamura style bread, but I got rushed, and the temparature in our kitchen dropped.
Not quite understanding the durum leaven I mixed too early. The resulting bread took a long time to raise, the crumb is uneven and it tastes very sour. But I am satisfied with my first attempt, I really like the consistency and feel of the semolina dough.
Here a picture of the loaf:
All in all it is great fun to work with these flours,
and it is really wonderful to find so much inspiration here on TFL.
Special thanks to Franko and David,
The inside of the Altamura bread:
I think the main problem here was fermentation control: The temperature in the kitchen dropped by about 5C during the last elaboration of the starter, and the effect was more drastic than on wheat or rye starters. I used the starter far too early. Lesson learned
The sources for the flours:
http://www.mattas.co.uk for the Divella semolina
http://www.mediterraneandirect.co.uk/ for the altamura flours - they seem to be out of stock now (as of 8 July 2011)
DeCecco has an online shop (for European countries) where they sell Semola di grano duro rimacinata. They are based in Puglia,but like Divella they seem to use grains from all over the place. I didn't try that (yet).
For some time I have been looking for German bread formulas, although not systematically. Some time ago I came across Meister Süpke's Blog about sourdough, and setting up a German group at my Son's school gave me finally the incentive to try out Mr Süpke's formulas for bread using the "Detmolder Einstufen-Führung" as I agreed to provide the bread.
Bread according to these formulas (see German Baking Day) can be made with various amounts of wheat and rye using a stiff rye starter at 80% hydration that has been refreshed with 5%-10% mature starter and kept at 24C to 28C for 12 to 18 hours. The Detmolder single step process uses a small amount of commercial yeast in the final dough.
The yeast content raised some questions: Is it necessary? Is the bread loosing sourdough characteristics? Are the bakers in Germany giving up quality in favor of quantity?
From Meister Süpke I got the answer that he could make the bread without yeast added, but in order to get through his schedule he has one hour for the final proof, which is being archieved by adding 1% yeast or less.
Another answer comes from Daniel DiMuzio's book Breadmaking: For some formulas he says one can add up to 0.7% of instant yeast without changing the character of the bread significantly, e.g. p.232, San Francisco Style Sourdough
Well, I wanted to know if the yeast does more than cutting the prooving times short, so I did some comparative baking.
First some pictures.
The 60% Rye loaves:
The 30% and 100% rye loaves:
Quite surprisingly, there is hardly any noticeable difference in the appearance the bakes with and without yeast. The slightly higher volume of the loaves with altus are due to the additional amount of altus in the dough, I didn't scale those down to 500g.
The loaves with altus were also a bit chewier and tasted more earthy. There was a slight difference between the 60% rye with and without yeast, the sourdough only version being milder. And the 100% rye with yeast maintained a bit of the starter's fruity notes.
The only striking difference loies in the times for the final proof, as shown in the table with the formulas below.
This experiment would suggest that the yeast is not necessary, but it is a great tool to fit this type of bread into a production schedule without the loss of quality. I would be very interested to hear if anyone has different experiences.
Now to some details about the process:
All the breads in this comparison call for a rye starter with 80% hydration. For the 60% rye batch I used wholegrain rye flour, for the others I used light rye flour (Type 997). I am maintaining a liquid wholegrain rye "mother" at 200% hydration, which is very reliable and worked well as a seed culture.
The starters were made in two elaborations (same process for wholegrain and light rye starters):
1. 100% flour, 80% water, 10% mother fermented at 24C for 16 hours
2. 100% flour, 80% water, 10% starter from (1) fermented at 24C for 16 hours
This way the original liquid "mother" makes up just 1% of the starter - no worries about the wrong hydration or grain. The starters rose well to about four times their original volume, and had a nice tangy smell. The light rye starter developed a very nice fruity-flowery smell.
The altus (fresh "old bread", 80% rye) has been added to the water for the 2nd elaboration to soak. No aditional water added. There was very little difference in the starter consistency with and without altus.
At my son's school we are starting a German expat's learning group to give our children some idea of German culture, like watching Biene Maja, playing Mau Mau and .. of course... German supper, usually some bread with different toppings such as sausage and cheeses and cold meats.
This gave me the push to start investigating how to make tge breads I miss over here. It's not the multigrain ones - I have a craving for different kinds of "Mischbrot" - bread that is made up of (light) rye flour, and wheat flour. Usually it is leavened with a rye sourdough, and some yeast is added in the final mix.
The overall percentage of rye can vary from 30 to 99% (100% would be a rye bread, "Roggenbrot") If there is more than 50% rye it's called Roggen-Mischbrot, if it's less than it's a Weizen-Mischbrot.
Meister Suepke gives in his Sourdough blog a general formula for the process called "Detmolder Einstufen-Fuehrung", bread made with sourdough which has been made in a single stage (as opposed to the intricate Detmolder 3 stage process), and he also gives hints how to scale this to different wheat contents.
I found that his formula corresponds very well with many of the rye formulas in Hamelman's "Bread", so I played a bit with the ratios and was very pleased with the outcome.
== Update 23/06/2011: Added some new photos and formulas at the end
== Update 12/05/2012: Added link to Google Docs spreadsheet
Enough words for now - here is a photo of what I made for the supper tomorrow: 80% rye with soaker according to Hamelman (tin loafs, could have baked a bit longer), 60% rye after Suepke (ovals) and 30% rye after Suepke (fendu)
Here the procedure:
All breads use the same sourdough:
100% wholemeal rye
80% water
5% ripe starter
The sourdough has fermented at 23-25C for 14 hours
The doughs (The percentages are in a table below):
The procedure is roughly the same for all breads:
Mix and work the dough, rest for 30 minutes, shape, proof for 40 to 60 minutes, bake at 220C for 25 to 35 minutes (500g loaves)
The soaker for the 80%rye is prepared at the same time as the sourdough: pour boiling water over the flour, mix and cover.
The doughs with more wheat should show some gluten development.
/* Update */
On the evening of the bake I couldn't wait - I cut the breads and posted the crumbshots above.
And I tasted them - the lighter breads are very satisfactory - beautiful elastic crumb and a rich taste with a good level of acidity - this is what I wanted.
The 80% turned out lighter color than I expected - I think I baked a bit too early and not long enough, but the taste is very promising (this bread should be cut and eaten at least 24 hours after the bake, it will get darker by then).
For reference here is the table with the percentages following Suepke's formula. I scaled the water down to 70% for 20% rye Mischbrot which works well. Sourdough as above.
Fresh yeast
Fermented flour
Here is the aabove table in Google Docs:
You can export the spreadsheet as Excel (with all the formulas) and scale the dough according to your needs.
You can adjust the expected dough weight, hydration of starter, surplus amount of starter and scaling weight.
Happy Baking,
Using the above percentages and procedures I made 3 different "Mischbrot" variations:
1. 30% Rye using wholegrain rye starter and flour and caraway (about 2%)
2. 50% Rye using light rye starter and flour, and bread flour
3. 50% Rye using wholegrain rye and wholegrain wheat. The flours for the final dough and the water have been mixed and left to soak overnight.
Here a photo:
The 30% rye is among the most delicious breads I've made so far. Light and hearty, and goes well even with jams, despite the caraway. (I get the feeling that I will have to bake lots of those in the coming weeks...)
The 50% mixes were inspired by my search for Kommissbrot (German army bread), which has been introduced during WW1, but found its way into the shops (and is still there). Originally it was - according to WiKi - a 50:50 wholegrain rye/wheat mix with sourdough and yeast.
The 50% rye with light flours is not bad, but a bit boring, but the wholegrain version certainly will stay in my repertoire: A very rich, complex taste with a strong wheat component and quite a bit of acid, like a mix between a 100% rye and a levain with wholegrain. The crumb feels light and springy, despite its look. I'm very pleased.
WARNING - This post contains some disturbing bread images!
First of all - I trust my liquid rye starter. He hasn't got a name yet, but I trust him.
Last Sunday we were having some friends over, some with wheat intolerance, and I decided to make the 100% russian rye (from Bread Matters), that always works, I thought.
And I had made a few nice batches of Hamelman's levain with wholewheat, and somehow the Polish Rye we made on the baking course I recently visited felt not so far from that, and I could make it with my rye starter.
I took the starter out of the fridge the day before where it had been for some weeks, taste and smell OK, and made my pre-ferments.
The stiff pre-ferment for the levain was coming along a bit sluggishly, but the liquid one for the russian rye had some bubbles soon (although not enough bubbles, in retrospect).
I expected to make some levain loaves like these from an earlier batch:
Good oven spring, nice open crumb, delicious ...
Well, now come the images... You have been warned, I am not responsible for your bad dreams.
They all tasted delicious.
But ...
This is the levain. The top loaf proved for 3.5 hours at 26C. Seriously underproofed.
I didn't trust my finger test!
I will use this one for experiments with old bread.
The bottom loaf prooved for 9 hours. Great taste, crumb not ideal.
With the Russian Rye I expected no problems, but it rose very slowly.
The photo speaks for itself ...
After 11 hours the dough had risen to a level I expected (usually it takes half that time) and I baked it.
My starter was simply starved, and I didn't pay attention to the warning signs.
As I said, I trust my starter, still.
Currently he is being pampered with some fresh flour ...
Happy baking,


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Thoughts on colored plaster????
Hey all,
We are in the middle of our pool build and we have received a quote on Pebble Tec and Fina and I can not justify 11K and 9K respectively for an alternative finish. We are already way over budget so they are not even an option but I was wondering what everyones thoughts on colored plaster was? I spoke with my PB and he threw out a ballpark figure of $1200 to $1500 for color additive for our 1000 sq ft pool. He said that they have better results with blues than grays and that modeling was more common with grays. I want a BLUE pool. I want to avoid any shade of green. As I said, Tec and Fina are out. I also got a quote on DiamondBrite and it was only a few hundred dollars off from the Fina. Thanks
What part of the country are you in, I think I am moving and setting up a plaster company.
We pay under $4.00 per sq for Pebble sheen here.
We are in MD, between Baltimore and D.C. So what you are saying is that my PB is ripping me off on Pebble???? I didn't even get a quote for Sheen b/c I knew it was the most expensive of the Pebble Tec finishes. I just can't justify even $9K for Fina when I know that money could be spent elsewhere (landscaping). Where are you? There are 16 pools in my neighborhood of 30 homes (only 2 are fiberglass) and of the 14 remaining Gunite pools only 1 has an alternative finish and 1 has dark gray plaster. Our neighborhood is only 8 years old so all the pools are relatively new. I don't think it has really caught on here too much here. I would guess it is b/c most people open in May and close in Oct so they don't use their pools all year, it is expensive and we can't really use our backyards all year either.
When we built our pool, we had a budget we wanted to keep. Our builder priced everything we wanted, extra's if you will, separately. White plaster, colored plaster, pebble finishes, fire pit, arbors, etc. So we could decide where we wanted to put our $. due to cost, we elected to not do a pebble finish. It was around $4k additional over white plaster. With everything else we wanted, pebble finish just didn't fit in the budget.
It's not the deepest blue of pools with colored/pebble interior, but it's blue enough for us. The shallow, which is 27' long only goes to 4ft at it's deepest, so of course, is the lightest.
I am not a big fan of dyeing white plaster unless the owner understands that mottling is often going to happen and there is little that can be done to stop it. They also tend to have some fading over time. Neither of these are defects.
On a personal note, I happen to like it as it gives a unique character to a pool.
I am not a big fan of blue plaster. Sometimes, the blue dyes have more fade than grays do.
Most of the blue you see is a reflection of the sky.
10k seems really high for just labor and materialc. A seven man crew at $400 a man is $2800. Acid wash and clean at $600 equals $3,400 labor including the acid wash. That would leave $6,600 for the pebble tec. A pool that size taking 8 batches would mean $825 a batch, something seems off or is it just me?
We are in the middle of resurfacing our pool in central Texas. Our original plaster from the previous home owner has a slight blue tint to it. We chose to go with Sun Stone Pearl (Aqua Blue) for the durability. Our pool is 15X32 rectangle and the cost is about $4500.
we have two estimates for diamond brite and pebble tech fina and they are both around $3500 for a 750 sq ft pool so seems like you are being over-quoted. I am also in MD
I would not recommend dyeing the plaster. The mottling is more prominent in those types. You are adding the dye into the plaster in the mixer, so you don't get the advantage of a pre-mixed, predetermined color. If you don't want to pay for Pebble Tec products, you can do a quartz additive to white or gray plaster. Just put in a 30% quartz and it should give you what you are looking for.


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Short, Strong Signals
March 25, 2015|
Methylation increases both the activity and instability of the signaling protein Notch.
March 25, 2015|
Methylation increases both the activity and instability of the signaling protein Notch.
March 24, 2015|
Dozens of researchers called on science and natural history museums to sever financial relationships with fossil fuel companies and philanthropists who fund climate change denying scientists and organizations.
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A census of adaptive immune system components in human skin reveals a variety of resident and traveling memory T cells.
March 1, 2015|
Global warming could lead to lighter-colored insects with waning immune defenses.
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March 2015's selection of notable quotes
February 25, 2015|
Babies who ate peanuts were less likely to develop an allergy to the food by the time they hit kindergarten, according to a new study.
February 23, 2015|
A leading scientific voice among global warming skeptics received funding from the energy industry while publishing claims that climate change is not driven by human activity.
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Genetically modified T memory stem cells persist in patients for more than 10 years, and can differentiate into a variety of T cell types.
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Gut bacteria in mice spur regulatory B cells to differentiate and release an anti-inflammatory cytokine.
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Microorganisms continually challenge our assumptions of what life can achieve.


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Keeping Your Picky Eater Healthy
I'm someone who loves to eat, and relishes the fresh foods available with each changing season. So, I was both surprised and disappointed when my toddler son hit a picky eating phase. I try to prepare healthy and varied foods, different things to taste and try. Despite those efforts, he hit a several month streak where he refused to eat most things- including foods he'd at one time loved.


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