It’s taken a while, but at long last, here’s a few photos of the floors being installed.
After Day One of the Installation, the upstairs hallway, the front bedrooms, and half of the master bedroom had floors. Here’s the sight that greeted me in the living room. Power tools, nails and wood scraps were scattered everywhere.
Here’s the reverse perspective from the dining room.
All of the upstairs carpets had already been removed, ditto for the stairs. But as you start to go up, the flooring in the upstairs hallway becomes visible. I’m probably biased, but I think it looks considerably nicer than the carpets. (The best comment on this photo comes from Mike whose first reaction was, “Nice airhose.”)
The two front bedrooms had their floors entirely installed on Day 1, all that remained was some molding along the baseboards and the closets. (All of the closets were put off until Day 2.) It’s a trick of the lighting that makes these two rooms appear to be different color with different flooring material. Both rooms were painted a week before the installation started and the floors are red oak (though there is an occasional piece of white oak mixed in).
The flooring in the master bedroom looked great too…
…but it wasn’t quite ready for me to put a bed in there.
(To be continued!)
Monthly Archives: July 2008
Free to a Good Home
I was up until 1:30 painting last night. The upstairs hallway is now complete and except for some touch-up work, all that remains to be done is half the kitchen. The hallway is a small area, but with four doorways, a closet, an air vent, and a half-flight of stairs, it took a lot longer than I expected.
I was really tired when I went to work this morning, but if anyone had suggested that perhaps it might have been a good idea to have waited until this coming weekend to finish, I was prepared to tell them, “You can have my paintbrush when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.”
But I screwed up last night. I left the paintbrush on top of the ladder and it’s now one solid mass of latex.
If you want my paintbrush, come and get it. It’s yours.
The Book of Disney
So do you think you know the story of Jonah and the Whale? Much to my shame, all I knew about it was that Jonah was swallowed by a whale and then I start comparing it the story of Pinocchio. (I know a little more of that story, though I’m not entirely certain how Pinocchio got out of his whale either.)
Last year, Kate and Luke moved to Lancaster so Luke could attend seminary and lucky for me, on Monday, he posted a transcript of his first sermon, “Eeyore Goes to Tehran.”
Kate once described Luke as being the more “graphic” of their duo. At the time, we all laughed at the possible multiple meanings of “graphic”, but I’ve since come to realize that Luke fits quite a few of those meanings. Given that new knowledge, I was more than a little curious to learn what he was up to.
It turns out that “Eeyore Goes to Tehran” is a retelling of Jonah’s story, starring Eeyore as Jonah. The sermon puts the story of Jonah against a contemporary backdrop, but still manages to be thought-provoking. For that alone, it’s worth the read, the inclusion of Eeyore takes nothing away but instead keeps your interest. As a bonus, I at long last know how it was that Jonah escaped from the pelican whale!
I do wish I’d been able to see the delivery in person; but perhaps I’ll manage that when Luke delivers the story of “Piglet in the Lion’s Den.”