New Art, Part 2 of 2
Over four years ago, I printed off a bunch of images taken from my office window, put them in frames and hung them in the…
Tag: North Hallway
New Art, Part 1 of 2
The walls here have slowly had stuff hung upon them. I wrote about some of the things I’ve found via auction houses a while back.…
Hat Rack Tricks
Since I seem to be on a home-furnishings-post writing frenzy, I found one more item in my backlog of pictures. Shortly after we moved in,…
Ottoman Empire and the Comfy Chair
A few months ago I created a bit of furniture to go with the chair I had reupholstered. First, though, the story of the chair.…
Quick Beaks and Quick Fixes
One of the recurring issues we’ve experienced–besides the ineptitude of the previous owners–is the destructive desire of the boys, Tenar and Thlayli. When moving in,…
Linens and Things
Continuing the theme of quality-of-life improvements, a very simple one a year or so ago was reorganizing the cabinets in the linen hallway. When we…
Another Bit of Electricity
Before Shelter-In-Place, something I regularly did, especially in the winter months, was turn on the courtyard lights when Agent Smith was nearing home (yea for…
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…
Touching up some leaves
Shortly after the floors were done and the boys moved back into their place, I retouched the trees I painted on the walls a couple…
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…
Knobbly Bits
When we had the linen hallway painted, all the cabinet and drawer pulls had to be removed, and when our painters took things apart they…
Finishing Touches in the North Hallway
Once the north hallway was painted and everything put back in place, I worked with a consultant from Blinds.com to find a solution to screen…
Painted Hallway and Bath
After just a few days the painters were done, and I spent a day putting things back together–books on the bookcases, rocks in the china…
Impromptu Painting
While we waited and waited for the new Studio windows to be manufactured and shipped out, I used the down time to have the same…
More Flooring Tales
I did some research online as we have teak parquet flooring throughout half of the house. It is original to the house and was looking…