If you have been popping in to check on things here, you know that I've been focusing on remodeling our library/studio/auxiliary guest room. That room was the last of the carpet and I decided that while the room was completely empty and before the new floor was installed I would take care of all the other issues and start turning this room more officially into a capital-L Library*: remove ..read more

I took a bit of a breather before tackling the last room - like several months, but before that there was this one last little bit to share: the "transition pieces." I'm used two kinds; a T-mold and a stair nose. The T-mold was installed in October and is in the door ways and was not a requirement of the material... COOL FACT: this VPL can cover floors up to 300 feet long without requiring ..read more

Guess what! Something was early! Shocking, I know. I just happened to go to the website to look at the light fixture and it was in stock! If they sent me the email I signed up for, I did not see it. They did send me snail mail with a 10% off your purchase coupon code that I did see, so at least there is that! Annnnd it showed up intact and when it was supposed to. Of all things. You can't ..read more

The last three (3) weeks or so have been my deep, dark blue period, but only in terms of color, not mood. YEY! That started with getting the repaired and re-textured walls primed and painted a delicious indigo. It makes me so happy to see all those dark, deep walls. But I knew it would make me very unhappy if I had to break up the gorgeous sea of blue with white rectangles. And by white ..read more

I had a lot of books. Eric really had A LOT of books. Together we have SO MANY BOOKS and we've only acquired more. But as everyone knows, it's not hoarding if it's books. YEY! It's not really a surprise that when we left all those Craftsman built-ins in Portland, we lost a lot of book storage. Even though all our books are out of boxes and most of them are on shelves that are not in closets ..read more

[Deep breath in] My plan was that once the walls and ceiling were finally fixed and fancified and the outlets and switches replaced and plated, I would finally tackle the closet. But instead, I was waiting for what was supposed to be a 2-day delivery of more Venetian plaster, but was in fact a nearly 2-week delivery*. Also there was a snafu with the dimmer switch - oy. I had to switch gears ..read more

Looks who's moved into the neighborhood... Bigfoot! Delia, this is Bigfoot. Rumor has it, he's been scouting the area since Christmas (ahem) and it looks like he finally decided on a spot on our property! Eep! Bigfoot, this is Delia. He's set up his lair about halfway between the house and the road among the spring wildflowers ..read more

I have been ogling indigo/brass/wood interiors for the last year or so. I thought it would be hard to sell Eric on this, but it was not. YEY! So, I dug out my paint decks* and narrowed my choices down over a few days while checking out how the samples looked at different times of day. The hardest part was choosing a ceiling color. I did not want white. I also did not want to just carry the ..read more

I struggled to get excited about getting started with this room. I thought I'd start demo in February. And then we got DUMPED ON by the Snow Gods in Feb and I spent a goodly portion of many days dealing with snow removal, sometimes plowing & shoveling twice a day for at least an hour each time. I honestly don't remember exactly when I really got started emptying the room, but it was probably ..read more

Demo is mostly accomplished! Tearing out the carpet and pad were the least of the issues. All that kneeling and crouching wasn't super comfortable, but that part of the demolition was straightforward and surprise-free. I realized after the fact that I don't think I took a photo of just the carpet, but this one gives you the idea; dingy tan shag with really obvious seams. What you see ..read more