The world's most expensive waste basket

[dreamshark]

After a thoroughly dismal October we finally had a short taste of Indian summer last week, so I impulsively took a couple of days off work and dragged Richard down to Lanesboro for an overnight bike trip. One nice thing about November - you can get a room in the nicest Bed and Breakfast in town with no notice and no reservations. So we did. We managed to get in a little biking each day on the Root River Trail. We also did a little shopping, coming home with a case of local wine and a hand-made solid oak Amish wastebasket.

	Habberstad House in Lanesboro From the outside this is the most splendiferous of all the Bed and Breakfasts in Lanesboro (and there's some competition for that, believe me). Yet somehow this was the only shot we got of the outside. Oh well, if you want to see the whole thing, you can go to their website.
	Habberstad House - balcony of the Scandinavian Room Actually, I guess this is a picture of the outside too. Just a very small piece of it.
	Habberstad House - Living Room Tastefully decorated in pseudo-Victorian furniture and a remarkably restrained collection of antique bric-a-brac.
	Habberstad House - original Lincrusta wainscotting We were fascinated by the mysterious substance on the walls. It looked like tooled leather or tile, but was actually a very thin pressed sheet like plastic. Turns out to be Lincrusta, a miracle wall-covering that was new, exciting technology back when this house was built.
	Scandinavian Room We chose the largest room in the main house because it has 1) a private hot tub and 2) enough room to move around in. This room is actually in a cleverly disguised modern addition to the original house, so they dropped the whole Victorian pretense here and went for a Scandinavian pine theme.
	Scandinavian Room Continuing the Scandinavian theme with a magnificent hand-carved bed. And the decadent comfort theme with piles and piles of pillows.

Comments

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Lovely place. Thanks for the pix.

K.