House Work

We removed the door frames in the bedroom Wednesday. We removed the doors this morning. All new knobs and hinges, and a clean coat of paint.

Empire is installing new floors in the Bathroom and Bedroom right now. They are about done with the bedroom, same wood as the living room. The bathroom is going to be a white stone finish, with tongue and groove underneath. Some man is ripping out the vinyl tile (never fit or looked right).

Removed all the doors for the living room, that's the bathroom and both bedrooms. We have these out in the garage for sanding and painting. We struggled with sanding for about 30 minutes, and I was walking through the garage and realized we had an electric sander!

I got it for my birthday, it was a gift from Joe and Tam, and we never opened the box. There is also a saw that will see some prime use this weekend as we refit the cupboard doors. We found identical hinges to ours in silver instead of brass, and they were dirt cheap 97¢.There are matching handles... the downside is that they are ever so slightly different, and we will need to paint the cupboard doors to match the new handles. The hinges are new, not 30 years old and worn from holding up doors, so the doors don't want to close as much as they should. We had the same problem with the original painting, since the hinges got mixed all together, and we used quite a bit of parafin and sandpaper to make it fit. This time, a quick run through with a saw and they will be ready to rock.

The number of colours a room can build up over 60 years is amazing. It's like a little history lesson in an asylum. You strip away a layer and find orange cream, under that brown, below that pink, below that yellow. Madness! It will all be perfect in pistachio and almond. I'm thankful that monday is just a weekend away.

I will be in San Francisco all next week, at the $77 Holiday Inn (you get what you pay for!).

In regards to mr anonymous and his great deals for online shopping, I have required registered users only may comment. Since the only people to comment otherwise were registered, this shouldn't impact too many folks. I have found that if the computer is shared (Beth and I use the same laptop) the last person logged in can post, you can type in a name, or you have to back out, log out, log in, and then try making a new comment. This cannot affect many more people than myself, and is more of an issue with blogger than with my attempt to reduce (there was only one, get over it) unwanted comments.