What Struck Me

I may as well try to get regular again. So, what’s been going on here? Well, the addition is done. It looks damn good, too. Right is a corner of the bedroom after the carpet, but before me. Left is the same corner after me.

It still needs that decorator touch. But before we do much more in there, we need to get some other things around here done. The deck isn’t built yet- probably be early spring before we get to that, but it’s ok, not like we use it in the winter. We just plain ran out of time, and really, who wants to build a deck in the winter. I’d be out there trying to hammer and stuff with mittens on. The hammer might slip out of my mittened hand and injure someone. That would be bad.

So while we wait for mitten weather to come and go so we can get back to that, we’ve moved on to updating the dining room. We had a hand-me-down dining set that once belonged to my sister-in-law’s grandmother. It was in pretty bad shape when we got it but no one else wanted it and the china cabinet, while scratched and pretty ugly, was big. Plus it had interior lighting which thrilled Pat. He liked having company over just because it gave him an excuse to light up the ugly china cabinet.

But the ugly beat up furniture began to fall apart. The china is now in the basement holding stuff I probably won’t ever use again, the chairs are all long ago trashed. We’ve moved the family computer into the den, so the room is down to the table, which sits in the center covered with crap.

We pulled up the nasty, nasty carpet (which still covers the living room floor for now… ) and found the wood floors are in pretty good shape. Yes, I know they need refinishing and if we don’t reseal them now we’ll probably wish we had. But all I want to do is clean & shine them up, throw down an area rug, and get on to the fun part- furniture shopping!

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