Small progress

The area under the stairs was filled in before, but now we are making a door underneath so that it can be used as storage...

And the bathroom is nearly done with the exception of some of the fixtures.

Just when I thought I couldn't dig no more...

....I'm back to digging....but while extracting some dead plants from the yard I found this key:

And this morning for no particular reason we started to scrape away all of the rust and dirt off of the train I found last summer. It reads: Pennsylvania RR Co Washington 44
If anyone has any idea how I can try to narrow down a year for it, please let me know!

It's not an exact match, but the closest I could find to it online....this is the sort of thing that will drive me insane until I figure it out. All you train collectors, put me out of my misery...please.

It's starting to come together...

A little base-board trim...

 More doors frame, hung, and trimmed....

 And the bathroom starts to get tiled

I'm annoyed at myself because I feel like I should be more excited about these things...but I guess it's a little anticlimactic the second time around....

Got Clean?

Ohhhh Yeaaahhhhhh....

I love you washer and dryer. Please never leave me again.

Door Resurrection...just in time for Easter

We're trying to use the same doors we had before--after all of that sourcing and fitting, and despite the warping, splitting, peeling.....and the slight change in the height and level of the floor.

As Joel put it...they need a lot of love at this point. One of the meter closet doors below needs to be really tweaked.

 And the antique knob on the bedroom door no longer turns ...hopefully some taking apart and WD-40 will do the trick..if not, it's back to square one.

Flooring (again)

Yesterday a couple of guys came to sand and seal the floors. 

 They seem redder than the ones upstairs, probably a different type of oak.

Maybe too red? We're thinking about a light whitewash after everything else is done....but for now they'll get papered and we'll move on with finishing the trim, hanging the doors, tiling the bath, and painting....

Paperwork is tiring....

Verrrrrry tiring.

Major progress, huh? Three cats, one table...no hissing....!