Renovations

We’ve lived in this house for more than three years.  We’ve made a few changes here and there as time has gone by.  

In the bedrooms, we painted, ripped out nasty old carpet and put in laminate floors (yes, we touched up the trim).

We took down the ceiling “decor” in the living room.  (Yeah, I don’t know why they did that either, but then, we painted our bedrooms orange and yellow, so…)  

Just this week we finally got around to fixing the hall.  I don’t have any photos, but there was a wallpaper border (The hall border).  And the walls were taupe.  Ick.  Before they were taupe, the walls were this color, with trim this color.  Yummy, huh?  

Well, we took about six partial gallons of whitish paint that have been languishing in the garage (only one of them was ours) and mixed them together to get a lovely, buttery, eggshell color of whitishness.  And painted all of that drab taupey color.  Oh, plus the inside of the front door is now Royal Blue (per sonars, who did not want me to paint it “that sick green” as in Barf green). 

The kitchen border used to look like this, but it is no more.  

And now the brick benchey thing that used to be in front of the fireplace and living room window is gone.  (See the post from yesterday for pics.)

We figured there was some kind of 2x4 frame in there supporting a brick facade.  Turns out there were eight million bricks stacked in there, though only the outside layer was mortared.  It took a masonry chisel, a three pound hammer, three hours and a lot of banging (watch iiiit), but Partner ripped out the whole thing down to the fireplace face (good thing that went to the floor, huh?).  

Now we’re not sure what we want to do.  The window there has some rot under it and so we may reframe it.  Or we might put in a sliding glass door.  There’s a sort of double door on the other side of the fireplace that we’d like to turn into a sliding door too.  We’d have a lot of window out onto a patio.  Whuddya think?  

Oh, and here’s another picture I was trying to post last night.  Sonar X8’s desk, inspired by this.  But now it sort of reminds me of a comfy pair of blue jeans.  

And here’s the boy reading the classics.  

 He was smaller then.  

Comments

[Anonymous]

How about a big picture window with reading bench/nook, storage underneath the seat and cushion? You could sit there while Sonars played outside and watch. Or could nap while rain falls. Or...cozy next to fire in winter?

Possibilities abound.

Hugs from London.
Astraea

[Drythe]

Wow! You guys have done some awesome work. I especially like Sonar X8's desk. Makes me consider scrounging/painting/sawing one for Agents 007 and 005. (Of course, just one would NEVER do.)

I'm afraid to offer you suggestions; I am notoriously bad at all things house-related, with the exception of hanging pictures and cleaning. Oh, and spray painting. But I'm only allowed to do that in the yard.

Thanks for the pics!

Love,
Drythe