Kathryn Nicolai
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1,487 appearances
6 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 16 Sep
Kathryn Nicolai’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And suddenly I wanted to change this room.
My house is really more of a cottage.
It sits on a bluff that slopes down to a lake.
The rooms are a bit small and there are only a few closets and cupboards in the whole place.
But I have a stone fireplace and butcher block counters well treated with mineral oil.
There's a clawfoot bathtub in the single bathroom, and when you open the windows in the loft, even on the hottest summer days,
Cool air from the lake washes in.
And makes me dream of lily pads while I sleep.
The kitchen was airy and white, with wood beams in the ceiling that I hung copper pans from, and slate floors warmed up with woolly rugs.
The loft is strung with fairy lights and my bed made up with a giant sprigged cotton duvet.
So soft and inviting it is difficult to get out of on rainy days.
But this room, with my chair and the fireplace, now that I looked at it, yes, it was time for an update.
The wallpaper had a dark green and gray background, with oversized stems of Queen Dan's lace and ferns unfurling from their fiddleheads.
I'd always loved it.
It made me feel like Alice, shrunk down in the garden, but it was faded in places where pictures had hung, leaving squares of brighter colors behind them, like better tuned.
and television screens among a sea of muted greenery.
It also hadn't been pasted on very well.
There were air bubbles in places, spots where the pattern didn't match with the strip beside it, and if you looked at it too long, you might begin to feel a bit crosseyed.
So I pushed the furniture to the center of the room, tossed an old flat sheet over it, and rolled up my sleeves.
I done some reading on it and had a collection of tools to help me with my project.
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