Showing posts with label Making It Home. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Making It Home. Show all posts

Saturday, February 3, 2007

Making It Home

Today's house project was arranging and hanging mirrors along the stairway.

Heather's been eye humping that space for just such a project since we moved in a bit more than a year ago.

Spiffy.

Previously, for half of the summer and a bit of the fall, we took on the project of refinishing our front door. The history: our house was built in 1900 and the door had all 106 years of lead-, oil-, and latex-based paint on it. The fun part: Heather won a trip to the phlebotomist after inhaling lead dust, and I passed out at least one time after inhaling the sweet toxic scents of ethylmethylyourgonnadieifyouuseitproxy paint strippers. Here's how it turned out: