Workin hard

With the house nearing completion, we decided to take a few moments to go to California, ride up US 1 on the Pacific Coast and dine at Beach Chalet. We'll get back to the final cosmetic tweaking of the house shortly.

Desk chair

They said it could never be done... who are "they" anyway?

This looks like every other picture that has been posted of the windows in the bedroom. But looks are deceiving, fool! These windows are stripped and sanded. They are done (if by done you mean, ready for wood filler and sanding and more wood filler and primer and topcoat). Woot! Rachel is ready to stand on an aircraft carrier and fly a banner that says "Mission Accomplished." She was so thrilled with the windows that as a "break" she began to strip the wallpaper in the hall. I think the organic stripper has altered her mentally.

Lawdsy!

So Woody went to New Orleans to present a learned paper at a conference on the Caribbean and Rachel hung out in Belton with a sledgehammer. She took this out in 15 minutes. Including clean up.









This is the view from the kitchen into the dining room. Don't you like what we did with the French doors and the couch? (This looks like a link, it is not. I cannot make it change.)

BTW, don't worry about the hole into the attic. I have some toothpaste and handled things like this in college all the time. People will NEVER notice.

Kitchen stove

Take a look at the stove we are going to put in the kitchen (evenutally!).

Dining room demo

Look what Rachel did! I went out to the store and saw Rachel had been busy tearing down the wall between the dining room and kitchen. She used nothing but a sledgehammer, her bare hand, and teeth to get all this plaster and brick down. I helped her by sweeping the debris out of her way. And occasionally wielding the sledgehammer. When she was busy gnashing plaster off the walls. Don't be fooled by her looks she is a tornado of destruction.

Look what we did!

Lots of work has been done to the boudoir! The purple on the walls has nearly been vanquished. Only one wall of the evil violet remains. I cut and framed a pocket door with my father and it just fit. We'll be using the door from the dining room to maintain continuity.

The b'doir is also now completely rewired and (almost!) up to code. What does this mean? We can do insanely convenient things like plug in the space heaters to the outlets on the walls! Imagine that!

The window trim has nearly been completely scraped off by Rachel. I discovered what a truly hateful process this is when I waled on the single window for an entire morning. Rachel thinks there is one day of work left on this. She has said this for the past three days. I think she is doing a great job!