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Monday, September 19, 2011

House of a thousand nails

September 19, 2011

Alok has been making progress on the house. The massive cabinet that was formerly from the butler's pantry (that was here) has been moved so that it is no longer in the middle of our new hallway:


It was where that lovely wall is on the right

Here is the lovely wallpaper that was behind this:


He has also been working hard on tearing up this nasty old floor, as seen here:



Like everything in this house that we want to remove, it has about a thousand nails holding it down.


Close up of the multi- layered floor

Here is the busy little bee:



In fun news, we ordered a ton of speaker wire today for our surround sound/outdoor speakers, as well as wire for cable and internet. We are slowly moving into this century. Very, very slowly. Alok even went ahead and bought a few speakers that were on sale, despite his argument that in ceiling speakers are "horrible" and not worth listening to:


Speakers

Now, our house is continuing to resemble that of a lumber store... or maybe a haunted lumber store. (Alok swore he heard footsteps in the attic today).


Living room


Dining room


Apartment area


Foyer

Almost liveable, right? 102 days sounds good. ;-)

Jessica

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