Most of the painting is done in the new office, including all of the wainscoating and the doors. I have a little more of the trim to finish up, a few touch-ups on the area around the entrance door frame and I'm done. We've moved in Carl's desk and the treadmill and I have a minor amount of purge work to do to finish organizing the closet with the files. We've stained the handrail that goes across the top of the wainscoating, and that'll take another day to dry, then two coats of varnish and it can be installed, probably around Thursday.
I just added back in a phone line... the same line Carl insisted we weren't using last month enough to justify having it, so why pay the extra expense. So I get to pay $41 to install the line that we already had. He is properly chagrined. I would like to say I resisted saying, "I told you so," because I am a very mature person who doesn't stoop to being snarky, but I would be lying. I did resist saying, "Nanny nanny boo boo," which was an accomplishment, I think.
For a minor project which turned major by Carl adding and adding, we've still gotten it done pretty quickly, I think. Although my muscles are protesting that assertion. The upside to this, aside from being able to move all of his files to his room and freeing up my office (and WOW, already it feels so much freer, less stressful, I had no idea)... is that he's so pleased with how his office looks, that he's motivated to do the rest of the back of the house. That will mean a lot of work over the next few months, but when it's finished, it's done and no more household remodeling to do unless we completely lose our minds and do a gutting of the kitchen and remodel from the ground up. Which we both sort of want to do, but the expense alone will probably keep that from happening.
I'm off to finish purging and painting. I'm sorry not to have more relevant topics to discuss here, like the state of the world or politics or critical issues... I think that's why I sort of like painting and doing household projects -- I am on mental vacation during the process. Maybe I'll post something really provacative tomorrow about my perspective on raising kids -- a controversial perspective, I suspect, which will probably alarm quite a few people. (Now, aren't you just curious about that?)
Posted by toni at June 21, 2004 02:56 PMPhotos, please?
Posted by: pooks at June 22, 2004 03:02 PMI plan to post pics as soon as he does the final hand rail. It's stained and drying and will take one more day of doing the sealer and then installing... so I'm hoping by Thursday. I really wish I had "before" photos of how that room looked when we unloaded it... it was so full of junk. It would be much more dramatic to see the comparison!
Posted by: toni at June 22, 2004 11:56 PM