Well, it's that time of year again. In the spirit of the season, I'll be taking a break from blogging to make merry with family and friends. Hooray for the old year (thank you, and goodbye), and here's a wish for the new: May peace and joy be upon our house, and yours, and may we be shelter and comfort in the year to come.
Merry Christmas! See you soon.
Posted in Guest rooms, House on November 20, 2009|
We've had a flurry of activity the last couple of weeks so blogging went by the wayside. We headed out to Calgary to see dr. andy graduate with his PhD (hooray!) and then introduced our first guest to 963: Kathleen (aka andy's mom). Kathleen was a lovely first guest, and a good time was had by all. Here are some photos of our first guest room (the room is small so it's hard to get a picture of the whole thing from one angle). The only thing we've done to this space so far is cleaned it and set up the furniture. At some point we'll change the paint and the shelving and the closet doors, but not today. And not tomorrow. And oh, not next week either.
I should also mention that we're soliciting room names. If we had a zebra-chair and low lighting in this room, for example, we could call it the Zanzibar room. And then you, dear readers, as future guests could ask if the Zanzibar room was available for your specific dates. Now all we need is a reservation line.
Posted in Bathroom, House, Tools on November 6, 2009| 2 Comments »
I left off blogging because I couldn't post photos until my camera cord arrived, and hooray, it's here! So back to documenting 963 in all its glory and glory-to-be.
I just spent 3 hours cleaning the downstairs bathroom. Eventually, we're planning to redo this bathroom because of things like this.
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That's easy enough to fix, but reno-ing this room is not at the top of the list so it needs to be usable. It didn't look like cleaning would take that long since it's one of those basic bathrooms: walls, tub, sink, toilet. But the people before us (PBU from now on) had some funky wallpaper there that was hiding what turned out to be a lot of crusty stuff on the walls around the toilet.
Yes, BLECH and ICK, ICK, ICK. So a quick clean turned into a for-the-love-of-God-must-disinfect-immediately spree, ceilings to floors, and thank you whoever invented arms-length rubber gloves.
On a side note, once again the razor-scraper turned out to be my best friend in unexpected places (sorry real-life best friends but you're not here. Too bad you all don't fit in a toolbox.) I mean it, you need one of these razor things. $5 to start, plus $2 for 5 replacement blades. It even takes off gunk around the faucet when nothing else works there.
Cleaning done, I hung the shower curtain, threw down the bathmat and put out some towels. Sparkly bathroom ready for its first guest. And now, coffee.
Posted in House on October 26, 2009| 2 Comments »
We've bought our first house, number 963, a house on a hill in the
southern interior of British Columbia. We moved in two days ago, just
the two of us. I'm so excited to have a house to work on, and so is A.,
and there are going to be lots of projects to keep us busy over the
next few years. I've already solved two house problems (a drain plug in
a sink that wouldn't hold water and inches of dust on the fridge coils,
ick). I thought it might be fun to document our project adventures
because there are sure to be a lot of them with 6 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms
(2 full and 2 half), and a lovely big garden with a waterfall, upper
and lower ponds with a stream running between them and fish at the
bottom (hello, fish!).
Sometimes when you're in the middle of things it's reassuring to see where you've been and how far you've come. So here's to beginnings and happy days ahead. I think the house knows it's going to have its shoes shiny again; A. says it needs us. Maybe we need it too.
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