Last Weekend's Outing

to Bait and Tackle.

Camping out

We're temporarily living on the top floor with the office/studio until the rest of the house is done. I miss all my stuff from my apartment but I'm not exactly roughing it...

(and don't be fooled--the opposite walls that you can't see are stacked with boxes)

Just like new.

This weekend just before I moved in I decided to have the upstairs tub reglazed back to it's un-mauled, pre-contractor beauty.

Before:
After:
Clean. Good.

Where's Banjo?

I had a bit of a scare today when Franklin went missing...only to find out he was hiding up the chimney.

So when I couldn't find Banjo tonight even after sticking my head in the fireplaces I didn't even suspect this harmless jumble of pillows

Aha.

We survived the first day!

We've slowly been moving my office to the top floor and now I'll temporarily be camping out up there until the lower floors are done.

Yesterday we moved my mattress and the cats.

Yeahhhh...the cats. I must admit I was very nervous--they just don't travel well. Banjo spent the entire day wedged in a corner of my equipment closet, but I woke up to find him wedged beneath my pillow....
Franklin is taking it better than I expected. He has claimed the entire house as his own, and is generally annoyed by any doors that are closed. As usual he slept under the covers, totally exhausted...
Ah...and after direct sun deprivation for 10 years....

Kitchen? Check!

Well, here it is, the top floor kitchen.

We painted the cabinets with a Dutch paint, which was kind of like trying to spread thick sticky greasy glue onto wood. The first time around we used it undiluted...and then unhappily watched gravity do it's thing until it looked like the whole surface was melting.

I think we've finally got a system down...and if it ever fully dries (and if we ever come down off our paint-fume high), it'll be hard as nails.

If it's good enough for ships, it's good enough for me.

Epic Cleaning

It's true, it's endless. But I have come to love the shop-vac.

We're cleaning up the top floor before adding another layer of sealer later this week...and Friday I start to move!
Oh...and yeah, all the fireplace bricks are now white....