Moving Along...

Last night was an experience I have been waiting for a long time. I got to sit and read a book in my own house! Most excellent. I didn't have a glass of wine of anything fancy going on but to just sit on my sofa (surrounded by unplaced furniture) and read in my own place was excellent. Now I feel guilty though...back to work!

The wicked wall paper is dead!

BTW...to give some scale to that dresser, it is 5 feet wide. If you scroll down a ways, there is a picture of this same wall with the old wallpaper. Here I have to admit to some half-ass-edness. I want to enlarge this room but it is not the room I want to start on so in order to at least make it livable (without inciting dementia) the wallpaper could not stay but it was on so good that I decided to paint over it. I would never do this on something that was going to stay but as I think only one wall may remain, it was a quick and easy fix. It made the GF very happy, too, which is always a bonus. She is used to me not doing something because I'm going to do something "bigger or better" later and then nothing ever gets done and we live with the old thing. Know how it goes? GF did all the painting. I spent a couple hours patching areas that looked like it might peel or was bubbling but overall didn't put too much work into the temporary fix. We haven't decided what to do with the trim. I thought she'd just paint over it when she was painting and maybe we still will. So happy it's not what was there before! Gurgh...I still gag a little when I think about it.

GF will probably be moving in soon. With the help of GF's dad, we got the swamp running this weekend and it will cool the AZ Room (and half of Mesa probably) so that will allow us to bring the beasts over and the beasts and GF go together. I will do a good post on the beasts soon.

What have we learned today? I'm a procrastinator, I half-assed my bedroom, I made the GF do the bulk of the work. I made GF's dad do the rest and the Beasts are on their way.

Pipe Dreams

Meaning I must be hitting the crack pipe a little too hard if I think I can afford all (any) of this. But below is an existing plan of the house and lot and what my current thought is for its future.



Existing Plan
1 Entry
2 Living Room
3 Kitchen
4 Breakfast Area (or very informal dining room)
5 Master Bedroom
6 Walk-in Closet
7 Master Bath (3/4)
8 Hall Bath
9 Bedroom 2
10 Bedroom 3
11 "Loft" (with Carport below 11 and 12)
12 Separate room on the Loft level - was once an outdoor space
13 AC unit sits on flat roof above a powder room and back door
14 Kitchenette (not shown) with Laundry Room below
15 Arizona Room (unconditioned but has a swamp cooler) with Spa (came with the house)
16 Storage (unconditioned)
17 Shed (large - with garage door)
18 Patio

I did not include a plan of the area under the loft which drops down to carport level and includes the laundry room, a large storage room (7 x10) and the mechanical closet that opens to the carport.

Here is my current thought:



1 Entry - large pivot door
2 Living/Dining
3 Kitchen
4 Informal Dining (or maybe some arcade games!)
5 Family Room (with the entertainment system - carport to remain, below)
6 My Office
7 Arizona Room (conditioned) configured to be the Kennel for the Beasts
8 3 Car Garage and Work Shop (my Pièce de résistance)
9 Master Suite (not fully resolved)
10 Bedroom 3 - Guest Bedroom and GF's office
11 Bedroom 2 - My temporary office and the cat's room. (GF's Dad is allergic)
12 Hall Bath
13 Storage (reduced to allow outdoor access from Master)
14 Covered patio with relocated Spa
15 Pool (GF's Pièce de résistance)
16 Grassy Area - entire width of yard for the Beasts to run.

Note the "proposed plan" is a bit misleading because the garage is actually at carport level, which is about 4' down from the main floor of the house. The door into the garage that appears to be in a wall in my office is actually into the laundry room below.

That's all for this installment.