Boudoir Edition, is mostly complete, as revealed yesterday. Acceptance inspection is this afternoon.
Work on the Gun Room of Argghhh! continues apace - the wiring is almost done, the light cans installed and tested, and a surprising number of code violations/dangerous conditions from the previous owner fixed.
Here's 'Vic" trying it on for size.
The builder and cabinet/rack maker and I brought a few of the boys out to check the fit and such... and see what they thought about it all.
With the boudoir done, and SWWBO now able to hang out all day at the New Castle (still working on a name for the demesne overall) we'll probably start moving in this weekend.
The Armorer's sister, however... still lives in remodel he11.
Gasp! Sputter! Hack! Sneeze! The sheet rockers are at my house. They leave dust everywhere. They also leave really large piles of mud in unusual places. Like the middle of the floor. Silly me, I thought it was supposed to go on the ceilings and walls. It looks a little like meringue, but I don’t think we’ll taste it.
Although there is really no point in cleaning at all right now, we are still trying to pretend we are civilized. Someone at work commented that I wear clean clothes everyday. I’ll bet they’ve lived in a home while it was being remodeled.
I never entertained the notion that I would have to dust my plates when I set the table, but I do. I also have to rinse off the pots and pans before I can cook. Little piles of wood shavings and nails and screws are appearing in odd places, as well. Like in my knife rack and on the stove. It is not safe to walk barefoot in my house right now.
Before the sheet rockers came, we got insulation. We are very grateful because we have had heat indexes above 100 degrees recently and the house was hot even with air conditioning. Of course a good deal of the air conditioning was comforting the squirrels and birds as it leaked out of the house. I do not think they were grateful. Some of the insulation escaped from where it was meant to be and meandered around the house. It wasn’t too hard to sweep it up on the wood floors, but the carpeted stairs were tricky. I would have just left it alone, but I didn’t want the dog or the cats to eat it.
Our regular crew got to work on replacing some more of our windows. Ed and I had been carefully moving our bedroom furniture away from the windows each morning. We have kept all of out toiletries in a box in the bathroom so it would be easy for them to get to that window, as well. This has been going on for almost a week. Yesterday, I asked the foreman when they would get around to it. He replied, “When the replacements come in.” Replacements, what replacements? The ones that came were 41” windows. We need 48” windows. The window guy is going to take a bath on this order.
Most of the furniture from the living and dining rooms has been moved into the bedrooms. Things are a bit, well, stuffed. I had a treasure hunt last weekend trying to find some skewers for the grill, but I was victorious! I just had to move two tables and several boxes to get there.
You will have to use you imagination for this. Our large upright piano is now in the hallway to the bedrooms. The hall has a jog in it and the piano is too big to turn the corner, so it just sits in the hall. Suffice it to say, it is a good thing we are not obese people or we couldn’t get to our bedroom. Erin is practicing for a solo audition at school. There is no room for the piano bench, so she must stand in the hall, play the piano, and sing. The girl has talent and fortitude! Pray she does not choke on the dust!
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