how i spent my memorial day weekend

it's been a while. but this belonged here and not somewhere else in cyberspace.

we have officially tackled the last untouched room on the 2nd floor of the house. see previous attacks here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here; not pictured: the painting of the dining room and kitchen.)

clearly, this was small potatoes compared to some of the other projects, but it still took some work. the sunroom needed some love so we could turn it into the new office. the old office, of course, will become the nursery. first, i had to run power to the sunroom since it didn't have any. the easiest way to do that was to cut out a chunk of the back stairwell plaster (vomit!) and run a new line to the basement from there.

a hole was cut in the old wall board of the house and an outlet box was installed and properly insulated (the subtitle of this project is "how to avoid all possible drafts"...it gets cold in the sunroom in the winter.) and two new breakers were added to the breaker panel in the basement and viola...electricity.

a second outlet was run to the other side behind what will be the new baseboard.

speaking of drafts, something needed to be done about the open seam at the top of the ceiling (at the old exterior wall of the house. it pretty much just goes straight into a crawl space on the third floor and lets anything (bugs, cold, etc.) in.


but, we'll get to that. first, the room needed to be painted.

before:

after:


and now, back to that ceiling seam. well, a nice sealed crown board ought to do the trick.



so, it was mostly just painting and some baseboard work. and the electrical.

either way, we are going to replace the old (unused) door to the stairwell before we block it off with a new bookcase. the computer will move soon and work will begin on filling the nursery.

that's all for now. peace.