Here is how the window-seat area in the girl’s room looks like right now. Sky built-in bookcases on each side of the window seat area, and built the window-seat out, making it wider and more comfortable to sit on. We need to find a cushion for the seat. Oliver finds it plenty comfortable, it seems. [...]
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This is a post, you see…about a post. A cat-tree post, to be precise. I had planned to call this post,“Behold, the cat-tree” , but Sky came up with a title more clever.I’ve mentioned before that our cat, Oliver, believes our children to be his litter-mates. He sleeps with them, which was cute…until we moved [...]
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Progress on the kid’s sleeping loft marches on.If you want to see all the posts for the building of the loft, click on the little label underneath this post that says “kids loft”, next to the time stamp- that will bring up all of the posts for that topic. Here is Sky in the midst [...]
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Here is how Sky solved the dilemma of how to hang drywall on a ceiling by himself…I dubbed it “Construction-Man yoga”. The top photo shows his technique most clearly: position drywall and hold in place with knees and feet and one or two hands…then quickly grab power- screw-driver to put the screws into place. Lose [...]
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I had a few requests for new photos on our sleeping loft progress. Here is Meg seated in the loft, she is overlooking the rest of the bedroom. The pink stuff to the right is new insulation. Our cat Oliver was very approving of the loft, he climbed right up the ladder. He did have [...]
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Sky has accomplished much this week. Day 1 of the project, he took the day off from work, to give himself a running start. Here are a few photos of how it is going… After the demolition of the ceiling, we decided to build the sleeping platform out into the room two feet and some [...]
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Sky tells me that there is a moment in every home renovation project he does, where time seems to stop…as he pauses, with sledgehammer in hand, to ask himself….”Do I really want to do this?” Such a moment occurred as he lifted a power-saw to poke a hole in our perfectly good roof – to [...]
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