boring necessary progress

Well, we've spent the last 2 months doing some pretty unromantic things, like setting up living necessities and fighting the elements. Between the air leaks and the water leaks, it took some time to get the basic improvements done to make the place warm and dry.


Kitchen with "adaptive reuse" cabinets


My boudoir, courtesy of Pearhead's old trade show booth


Custom made window to fill glass block hole. Works better than a taped up garbage bag, I'll tell you that.


Painted radiators. If I could, I'd paint the world silver.


Scary corner pipe of liquid death. It has been Kilz-ed so it isn't as scary as it was when it seemed to be made entirely of rust. It's still drips around the ceiling from the splashes upstairs, but at least the 4" crack in the back that woke us up every morning with our very own "water feature" is filled.

Soooo...

Now we're back to dreaming, doing manual labor that yields more fun results, like my "new" chairs: