Living Room Floors Furniture and Beyond

Found a better pix of Living Room floor and a really good, before/after shot.

Mid June:

Late September:

Transition to hallway looks very nice, I think:

L put the rack of shelves into Pantry. This will be great for those appliances and large pots that don't get daily use.

Did a lot of shopping yesterday. For Living Room set, possibly endtables, new TV etc. A previous trip, and most of this one consisted of looking at sofas that all pretty much looked like this:

Eh. L wants a recliner built-in - me not so much. Especially when it looks like 17 leather pillows all sewn together. It's been hard to find a compromise. The one above was less pillowy than some and I was 80% willing to relent; we came VERY CLOSE. This was at one of the larger stores in Portland, where they would "make a great deal for you in order to sell these TODAY!" I started looking for airbags and whitewalls and faked odometer readings. Can I see the Couchfax, please?

In a nod to Miss Kitty's bordello, I actually kind of liked these. They were extremely comfortable. But no recliner and a really light color with two aging cats and an, uh, "young adult" - well, as GHWB would say, "Wouldn't be prudent."

These are on the short list:

I like this. It's a little different, very comfortable. This was in the scratch and dent room, but there was another one in a brown tweed upstairs.

And there were a LOT of these, which I like too:

Maybe L doesn't care for them so much, eh?

L's fave was this one. Since these would be placed with the chair back facing the door, he liked that the back was interesting, too. We would not get the ottoman because we expect there will be a large coffee table. Even though no one in this house drinks coffee LOL.

At the end of the day, we did not get a TV (boy what IS it with the pushy salespeople? Oy! They were pushing the service agreements and we hadn't even picked out a set - those agreements are a HUGE revenue stream), end tables, loveseat or chairs, although the chairs immediately above are on the short list.

We DID find a couch and it is SO NOT what we expected we'd end up with.

More fun with this when it is delivered. Wednesday.

Yes, I did shed a tear

Don't know where to begin... now, there are some unresolved issues and a few burps to take care of. But, I have to say it still took my breath away... look here at several views of Before / During / Now:

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And a few of the details:

I am SO HAPPY!

Remember that house we used to have? Again...

(sorry for the empty post before)

Well, words fail me. Here's a rare pix of the Living Room, clean. One from the Christmas just past. And a shot of the Living Room two days ago.

The bathroom on Main Floor, 6 months ago, and today.

The stairway to upstairs. Ugly, gray carpet had already been removed. And then, today. L is in what used to be the main floor bathroom.

The previous corner of the Master Bedroom. This will now be IN the stairwell that doesn't exist yet. Cat is optional.

Looking out south side of old bedroom.



I just don't know what to say....

Overview - Before and During

Haven't posted for about a week. There are lots of pix taken but I'll try to keep the number reasonable (grin).

Here are some Before-and-Afters:

This is the preliminary drawing:


This is what we're aiming for:

This is where we are, five weeks after breaking ground and two weeks after foundations were set.

Uh, WOW.

More pix in next entry. Some adventures in mopping coming up.

No Time Like the Present

Although we don't yet have the check in-hand, DH is already starting on some of the smaller things. We talked more about the kitchen cabinet configuration. DH has a lot of vitamin and med bottles next to the sink and it drives me nuts. We will be replacing the kitchen window with a standard size and so we will have some room for a very narrow upper cabinet. Something like one of these:
This will keep the vitamins, etc. handy to the sink but OUT OF THE WAY! This is one of my biggest pet peeves in the Kitchen. That and the Never-Ending Pile of Mail and Junk at the End of Countertop.



He's also looking at adding a railing to the porch, which has nothing now.





Railing would be fairly solid, like this. We talked about possibly augering some sort of design into the panels, but haven't decided yet.