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I mentioned earlier, a facelift – all three bedrooms are completed and the popcorn is gone from all but a few closets.

Aside from our weekend christmas present to see Mickey Mouse, pretty much all my free time has been consumed with getting the house setup to be here a while, and to host parties, and to have good wifi, and lights, and sinks, and – let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

With a sick WeeOne I now find some free time of an Easter morning.
I’ll post some pictures to whet the appetite and document progress.

First I’ll show an empty, finished product, of LaGrande’s room.
With the little fan – it’s got a bit of east coast beach house goin’ on.

The master bedroom had two, oddly solitary, coffers. (difficult to see here with all the lathe on the joists)

So I though it would be a small matter to install two more coffers and then to cover the popcorn with bead-board.

After a false start using sheets of bead-board – heavy and ungainly as they were – I could tell it would come together nicely with 3′ 1/2″ strips.

Then the trim, oh the trim! About 230 lineal feet of that corner bead.

And the final color of wall paint…

…and it’s move-in ready now – as soon as my hands recover from tearing out all this freakin’ ivy!

getting the kitchen floor re-finished in prep for listing this week – cutting it a bit close for comfort (at least most people’s comfort) but THIS is pretty fantastic looking by any measure.

The bottom half of the picture below shows sanded-unfinished while the top half shows one fresh coat applied. Today coats 2 and 3 go on. No color added, letting the natural maple of these floors (from an old gym somewhere) show through. Cool.

Gonna be walking on tippy toes in socks for a couple weeks before the newness wears off.

Ginny Weasley, Zombie Prom Queen, Peter Pan, and Rocky Balboa

So, Halloween, at my office is the biggest deal of the year.

’nuff said