Once more unto the breach; a return to familiar ground

september 2009 that will buff right out

Before explaining the mess above, let me take you through the easy upgrades around the outside of the house. We made small stones out of larger stones to make a edging wall...

modern man gardens with the tools at hand

And we continued to make bad wires safe.

But the major work happened inside, as it always does, right in the middle of our livable area. This time we set our sites on the Master suite. Astute readers are quick to point out that this was the last place we were ever going to touch. We had staged our lives to allow the house around us to fall while the bedroom remained safe, clean and someone civil. If a house be a man's kingdom then certainly the bed be his throne (well at least a close second). And this was supposed to be the safe place. But sooner or later poor judgements and impulses can get the better of anyone and this throne room was looking damn nasty one day:

that panelling had to go

and so it did

fin. well, almost fin. just a little more paint...