Emily has a habit of taking steamy showers for an excessively long time. Consequently, the wall paper in the bathroom has loosened up a bit around the edges. I just found a hand sized place where it apparently turned loose- and she tore it off so I wouldn't notice. This was only marginally effective- that was Tuesday. I found it tonight. When ( Read more... )

( Painting in it's new frame )

( Floor! )

The floor is finished!!!

I'll have pictures as soon as I mop up all the glue smudges and move everything back into place. I still have some bits of trim work, door facings and baseboards, to put into place and I am having to wait on my thresholds to get here but actually laying the floor? Done.

First, no, I haven't finished the floor... I ran out of glue. This has taken so long because I am being lazy about it- I need to cut that out ( Read more... )

( Because I am not assuming this is as interesting to everyone else as it is to me )

Today at work I was so tired that I kept trying to figure out how to afford to do what I want (at least partly) about the doors to cover the shelves I am going to be building in the living room as a supernumerary pantry. What I want to do is have 8 doors with punched copper insets in an oakleaf pattern. (If any of you is into tin punching, we need ( Read more... )

I ordered the floor yesterday. It has to be sent from the warehouse to the local store before I can pick it up which takes about a week, or so I'm told. So yeah, moving right along ( Read more... )

I have been looking at my past journal entries for working the house. I notice that I estimated that it would be 2016 before it was done. Um. I'm working on the last room now! Better than I thought by a lot ( Read more... )

We did not, for a fact, go to the museum. I made the mistake of letting Emily do her shopping first which meant a trip to McKay's for reward books for her last grades and a stop by Best Buy so she could finally buy herself a new PSP. After that, she was a lot less interested in Contemporary Expressions in Glass ( Read more... )