McBerkoBlog

Visitors no longer have to relive college apartment life by crashing on a mattress on the floor! We had a bed frame when this mattress was in our previous house, but ditched it in the move since the plastic feet on the metal frame were broken and would have destroyed the wood floors. This new bed was delivered yesterday. Cheapo from Overstock, but was just what I was looking for - old fashioned looking metal bed. Now if only we could find a bed for our own bedroom. We might end up moving into this one for a while. Unlike ours, it has a TV, a closet, a ceiling fan, and now a bed off the floor. Exciting day ahead of us - finish sanding and priming the nursery. (Sanding, most hated part of project; priming, looks like a room again.) Possibly the same for the hall, which we finished mudding last night around 10. Thrilling life, I know!

This 5'6" x 13' area was an odd storage area off the upstairs hallway. It appears to have been an open porch/balcony at one point, with sides walled off long ago. Under these boards we found the original exterior siding along two walls, and tons of dirt, birds' nests, and general black guck in the ceiling. Eric drew the lucky straw for the ceiling demo - fun day for him with all that raining down on him for a few hours. Old door was walled off, new door added to open from (what will be) the master bathroom. Paint the trim, add shelves and rods, and we'll have ourselves a closet.

This may not be the most exciting thing to you, but there's a DOOR on our upstairs bathroom!! Yay! That's the clawfoot tub inside the door - moving it is what allowed Bill to put the door back on. The tub is just wide enough that it can't fit through the door frame, so the door has been off this room since we started work on it several months ago. Some paint on the trim around the door (inside the bath), hooking up the clawfoot tub shower conversion kit, and we'll have a full working bath on this floor!