Drumroll, please…

Now: we are not quite done yet. And the bookshelves will not be left like that (had to leave room for the fellow to finish up the telephone and cable wiring; that’s done now, but my telephone won’t work and the cable’s all gone fuzzy…)

And here is where you will find me on any given day! Love my chair! And the lamp once belonged to Grandma PoPo. The spindle back chair is one of several that once surrounded the dinner table of DH’s family. Curtain in the pass through? Jury is still out on that maneuver. I sorta like it. The view out into the family room is nice. The view into the kitchen is…just that.

Sophie really does like the new room — she just hates photographers. And this really isn’t her best angle.

Still have a bit to get done  before the remodel is completely finished — mainly in the bathroom/laundry room.

Oh yeah. And the phone and cable snafu. Hmmm.

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NP: Morning news

Where’s Soph? Making short work of her new nylabone

Today’s schedule: Work. Curves. Vote. LOST.

Trim and Slim

Those before and after weight loss photos you find in the weekend newspaper adverts? The ones where the model stands at a slightly different angle in the after photo? Well, here you have our remodel at a slightly different angle from all the befores, showing off the final trim job:

I wasn’t so sure how the patio door was going to turn out…it previously had a maple finish, but I think it matches up pretty well. And in the second picture — I think that’s where the TV will go…on that short wall. The third picture is showing the oak top put on the half wall going up the stairs — and the pass through shelf, which is wide enough to put some plants. Maybe I’ll get me some English ivy growing again…

The floor is done!

The flooring fellows came and worked all day Thursday putting the floating floor in the family room and tile in the laundry/bathroom and on the stairs. And here are the results. The floor is historic chestnut and the tile is bleached almond.  The stairs weren’t grouted in the picture and the landing into the kitchen wasn’t tiled yet.  I like the floor…I love the tile:

So Monday the place gets trimmed out, the doors installed, the pass through finished and the furniture comes Thursday. Now where to put it…

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NP: As Time Goes By

Where’s Sophie? Out here in the living room chewing on her nylabone. She is resting after going completely cracker dog.

What’s for supper?: Homemade pizza — pepperoni, green olive, onion. Yum.

The floor is here!!!

…you’ll have to take my word for it. I haven’t any pictures, but there are boxes of laminate flooring and duraceramic tile sitting in the family room.

<runs in circles>

So the floor should be done Thurs/Friday.

The contractor is delivering the trim package Friday afternoon.

He is installing it Monday.

I think I’ll have my furniture delivered TUESDAY THURSDAY NEXT.

That is a week away.

Golly.

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NP: Repeat of Human Target.

Where’s Sophie? Sacked out on the floor. She had a tiring noon hour as I brought a co-worker here to eat lunch. Soph had a lot of “happy pee”. Silly girl.

Mood: Rather energized, which is quite a leap for me. Must be all that exercise at Curves.

Glued to the tube

1. Human Target was a fun lead-in to 24 last night — hello Caprica! 24 was good as always — hello Starbuck!
2. Pt 2 of 24 has disrupted my Monday evening…will have to hulu Chuck. Castle has been good — tonight’s ep looks interesting. Always good to see what Captain Reynolds is up to..
3. Tuesday…hmm…I don’t think there is a thing on to watch.
4. Human Target on Wednesday.
5. Thursday is reserved for Fringe. Is The Office showing new eps yet? Burn Notice starts, right? Seems like there was something else…watch for an edit.
6. Friday…hmm…I don’t think there is a thing on to watch.

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NP: The morning news

Where’s Sophie: Here in the living room, chewing on her new nylabone

Anything exciting going on this week? Well, my Curves adventure continues and it’s a short work week for me, due to my birthday! Yay!

Weather: Freezing fog. Wonderful

A very brief musical pause…

H and I went over to the antique store yesterday afternoon. I think I may have found the end tables I want for the family room! 1940 vintage…small scale…two tiered…cherry finish — now I have to take a few measurements to make sure the height is right for the yet-to-be-delivered couch.

Filing under the “well-whaddya-know” department:

Upon entering the antique store, I recognized the beginning of the Moody Blue’s “Nights in White Satin” on the muzak — different arrangement, but the song all the same.

It was being sung in either Italian or Spanish. And it wasn’t too bad either…

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NP: In Touch with Charles Stanley

Where’s Sophie: curled up on the couch

What’s the plan? Probably going to do some more housecleaning this afternoon. What a dump.

“We all live in a…

Yellow family room…a yellow family room…a yellow family room:

DH outdid himself this past weekend. The paint is “Candlewax.”

And will you get a load of the stain job on the window? I think it was “Colonial Oak” or something like that — didn’t much matter what it was called as long as it was a close match to the trim.

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NP: The nightly news.

Where’s Sophie? Curled up on the couch. Crate time is next.

More pictures…

Still not in a writing mood. So here are some more pictures. Walls are orange peeled and ceiling is knocked down. Plumbing guy tells me that they are waiting on a couple adapters before the heat can be hooked up. Then hopefully in rapid progression: painting, staining, flooring, trimming and the rest of the laundry/bathroom fixtures installed.

I am nearly convinced the remodel will be done by my birthday…

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NP: Some WWII documentary on PBS. And the space heater.

Where is Sophie? Laying down at my feet. Whining. She wants on my lap.

Mood: Sick of snow.

Presto Chango!

Where to begin?

How about with “how dull a blog becomes when there are no updates!”?

This one qualifies as dull dull dull then.

Not really in a writing mood — so how about a couple pictures of the family room? We’ve come quite a way since my last post, but still have a ways to go. For example, if the heat was hooked up, we were going to paint, but with an outside temperature of three degrees, we could only manage forty degrees in the remodel and that is not near warm enough. Phooey.

On to pictures:

Of course these pictures are before the orange peel and knockdown finishes on the drywall, but still — pretty cool, eh?

Open sesame!

There is a story to go with these pictures — watch for an update!

Here is before.

And the story is this…so I come home at noon one day this week for lunch. Sophie’s crate is in the dining room and I went over to her first thing to see how she was doing. She was all hunkered over in her crate and rather subdued. Not like Sophie at all. I asked her what’s the matter and coaxed her out of her crate, petted her and tried to soothe her.

Then I stood back up and looked into the kitchen.

It looked like a bomb went off! A load of debris was in the sinks and on the counter and on the floor. My kitchen window was gone and a doorway was cut for access into the family room.

Is Mumsflowers observant? Put a check in the “no” box.

Oh my gosh!

I gated Sophie away from the construction zone and went investigating…

There were three  lovely steps leading down into the family room along with a half wall framed up for a handrail.The steps were absolutely effortless to go up and down, which is a positive for when Mom and Dad come to visit — and not a big deal for me when carrying laundry down.

I went back to work feeling pretty good about how the remodel was fleshing out.

When I came home in the evening I saw where there plumbers had been there — the pex tubing for the radiant heat was on a spool hanging from a rafter.

Thinking I should check out that set up, I headed for those steps…

…and they were GONE!

Huh?

Oh. Seems there was a conflict with the steps and the channels the pex had to go.

So if you look close at the “after” picture, you’ll see where the steps WERE.