Tag: Great Room
More Furniture Finds
After buying the lovely table online at Michaan’s, I started visiting in person during their preview hours and, thanks to a friend, also discovered their…
A Trip to the Auction House
Soon after buying this place, Agent Smith and I discussed ways to furnish it that did not involve rushing off to IKEA, Restoration Hardware or…
Stripping Down
A big, big project went down while I was on vacation in March/April 2019–the chimney got stripped. You’re probably scratching your head at that statement,…
Console Tables
(Sorry, no witty/punny title came to mind for this post.) In early 2019 I started scouring the interwebs for some tables for the foyer. A…
Mirror Mirror
As mentioned in the last post, the 3D printer helped with a recent crafty project I created for the foyer/great room. I spent a few…
When in doubt, just print it
It’s been two years since we bought our first 3D printer–a Prusa MK3, based upon a friend’s recommendation–and we learned very early on that one…
Arcadia
A somewhat odd fact about the living space at Purgatory is that we have many exterior doors for both the house and studio buildings. The…
The unGreat Room
Once the furnace work was done, it was time to take stock before moving on to the next projects. I took a handful of panorama…
Big Glass
An annoying thing that exists since we first looked at the house were the seal failures on all the large downstairs windows of the great…
Revamping and Repotting
According to the Doc and the original plans of the house, there were built-in planters on each side of the front door in the entry…
Yes, it can get windy
Since we live halfway up a mountain, it can get a bit windy up here. Per the weather station we run, the biggest gusts we’ve…
Closet of Doom
When we moved in, we discovered one thing that neither the inspections nor the previous owners had noted: the fact that the closet off the great…
A bit of decor
Our front foyer was sorely lacking a spot for people to sit and take off or put on their shoes. This is an issue when…
The size of things
I managed to contract some sort of plague last week and spent much time in bed with a fever and congestion. While AS and his…
Small Things and Big Blinds
Last week I took my giant ceramic Hello Kitty to the new house, and now it sits proudly in the butler’s pantry. I also discovered…