January 30, 2007 – 2:15 pm
Now that some of the house repairs are beginning to die down (well, actually it's more like outright ignoring), I can get back to other methods of shortening my life through external tasks. Tonight that means wandering around on the cold streets to go see some bands. I've already got my flask of Jim Beam, […]
January 24, 2007 – 10:31 am
The Ugly Tile has largely been banished to the hallways and interstitial areas of the house. We have painted, stained and finished 3 floors of the house, more or less. for some reason the 2nd floor is all hardwood, while the 1st and 3rd floors were only partially hardwood (4th floor was 100% Ugly Tile). […]
January 22, 2007 – 12:11 pm
3rd Floor Painted, originally uploaded by Jimmy Legs. More exciting tales from the Land of Flooring! Fresh on the heels of our 4th floor refinishing, we moved down a floor to deal with the Gross Tile of the third floor. The floor is covered with this ugly institutional type tile, I guess it's linoleum or […]
January 17, 2007 – 11:57 am
4th Floor Refinished, originally uploaded by Jimmy Legs. The floors are pretty much done for now! What an exhausting procedure. Considering what we were up against, I think the floors came out well. We're still a couple of Louis Cattorze chairs away from getting added to the House Tour, but we're managing. For some idea […]
January 16, 2007 – 11:14 am
4th Floor Unrefinished, originally uploaded by Jimmy Legs. I had Friday and Monday off from work. Sounds like a relaxing 4-day weekend! However, the opposite is true, it was a near-constant tumult of rental vans, heavy equipment, runs to the hardware store, and fitful sleep the entire time. Our friend kept saying that refinishing our […]
