I've been terribly remiss. The house is lookng pretty great, in some rooms at least, and I'm not taking pictures.

The living room is mostly complete - art is (almost all) up, books are shelved, all is well. We're hoping to get a real coffee table for the TV half of the living room. And then there's the curtains issue. And if I were over- ( Read more... )

How nice that the state of Massachusetts gave me yesterday off! In celebration of Paul Revere, we blew cellulose insulation into the wall cavities of the two remaining bedrooms, prepped those rooms for drywall, hung drywall in more than half of one of them, and in the spare moments, I got all the living room baseboard moulding cut and pegged into ( Read more... )

So here's the wallpaper photos for the easy room.

This is Dirk's studio. They seem to have been very conscientious about actually taking down the wallpaper before putting up new, though that may be related to the fact that the walls are in decent condition so they weren't scared to scrape. The top layer was even fairly innocuous, white with pale ( Read more... )

The second key room of the upstairs is of course Dirk’s studio.  We’re currently in a situation where he’s in the largest room in the apartment, and the bedroom has been feeling the crunch, so occasionally I get gripey at him for taking all the space.   This won’t be the case any more; now, he’ll occasionally get gripey at me because he’ll feel ( Read more... )