well, okay. really we're still cooking with electric; we aren't touching the kitchen for a good while yet. but you know--it's an expression. an idiom. one that i hope means, "we're busy doing stuff!" or some such thing. because we were busy this weekend. i started it last weekend by getting two chairs and an ottoman off to the upholsterer, making room in the living room. and i put up the tree last week, which just made me smile, smile, smile. it's a vintage evergleam aluminum tree i bought off of ebay and i LOVE it. it's in excellent--not new, but excellent--condition. we have a sad and paltry assortment of ornaments, but we'll get there. we have years.
then george bought us a new television and tivo, so he moved the old tv, tivo, dvd player, and cable box up to the bedroom (where there is, as yet, nothing else--i hope to remedy that this week by buying a bed, finally). and today we cleared both dressers (huge vintage ones from a yard sale this spring--veneered and not beautiful, but roomy and well built) out of there and into my craft room. we also set up the blocking table in there, and then i moved all the drawers and yarn i could find back into the room. it looks better, as does all the space it was occupying before :) he is a happy husband. *and* he spent a long time today mopping--with a commercial bucket and mop (a commercial mopping bucket is way cooler than it sounds)--the linoleum tiles in the living room. they've been covered with dried plaster and paint since at least the last renovation. he mopped with simple green then a couple of times over with water, and i went behind him with a putty knife to get the plaster globs up. there's still plenty of paint on the floor, but at least it's a reasonably clean and smooth surface now. i wish the tiles were in good enough shape to keep as the surface treatment--i love linoleum--but they're just wrecked. we'll be putting maple hardwood flooring down after more renovations are finished. but at least now we can use the room--w00t! the reupholstered chairs should be home in a couple of weeks; meanwhile, we're sitting on my old vintage chair (old as in i had it reupholstered in the late 1990s; vintage as in a hand-me-down from my parents, who bought it in the late 1950s), a beanbag, and dog beds :) that is, unless george brings the ikea lessbo sofa upstairs.
eventually, we're planning to build a mod-looking platform for our queen bed for the living room, making a big lounger sofa, and the lessbo sofa will probably return to the entry parlor. but we also have to get our new bed for the bedroom before we can do that, so it may be a few weeks, at least, before that happens.
meanwhile, the second-floor bath continues to be disgusting. i have fantasies of ripping out the old vanity, sink, and faucet fixture and putting in some kind of cabinet i find at construction junction (what's your function?) that i'll cut just perfectly (because i have *so* much experience with power saws and sanders) to hold the green glass bowl we bought at the highland park yard sale as well. i took one look and knew it would be the perfect vessel sink. but i think that's a project that will have to wait, not only because of my stunted carpentry skills, but also because the faucets that make me drool cost way more than i think i could bring george to want to spend right now. (yes, i could go buy one myself, but i'm terrible at keeping things from him. and he'd flip out when i told him what i spent. so i wait.)
my study is the sad room right now. it's piles and boxes and bags of everything imaginable. it's the de facto storage room right now. i hope to get it more organized--or at least consolidated and into covered containers--before more of the dropped ceiling lives up to its name. (ever since we took a tile out to see what was awaiting us after we remove it, it's been sagging and slowly dropping tiles onto the floor. ew.) and before the hvac and insulation guys start work, which will be soon.
but my priority project at the moment (when i'm not--gasp!--working) is knitting the last gift we have for christmas to send off in the mail. just two little-girl sleeves left; you wouldn't think it would take me long. cross your fingers that i can finish them during the game tomorrow! (because then i can cast on something for me!) :)
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