New Doors Acquired
Since buying this place, one of the tiny, yet annoying, issues was the large gap between the front doors. The gap was unsightly, but more…
Tag: Studio
One More Studio Innovation
When we lived in SF, we had two couches in the living room. Agent Smith purchased them for his first place in SF before we…
Wine Room Redo
Carrying on from the last post, the studio building also has a wee wine room. When we first viewed the property, there wasn’t much wine…
The Studio Building Today
Back in 1999 the previous owners built the studio building. As documented in past posts, it’s just a weird building. Comprising three actual rooms and…
Blank Walls in the Studio No More
For a long time, the walls of the studio building were barren. I have been adding things into the space over the last few years…
Divesting
While we have purchased many things since buying this crazy place, we’ve also managed to get rid of a lot of things left here by…
Sunday Panorama
The studio building before we replaced the rug.
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…
Last Studio Details: Blinds and Curtains
Continuing on from the last two posts–as part of the studio renovation, we ordered remote-control motorized blinds via Blinds.com and matching drapes. Installing the blinds…
Studio Painting
Before lights and rugs and blinds were installed in the studio building, we had our regular painter come and give the space some love. I…
Sealing and Lighting the Studio
The long, drawn-out saga of the studio building has taken longer to write about than the actual work took to complete! Past posts detailed the…
Upstairs in the Studio
Returning to the Studio renovation saga–things limped along for quite a while last winter, but once the windows were in place we were able to…
Studio Windows In and Stucco Done!
The new windows for the studio building finally arrived and were installed in early November of last year. Once they were in place, a team…
Patching and Studio Speaker Removal
While waiting on the new windows to replace the pseudo-windows the Previous Owners jammed into place because they were either too cheap to have the…
Studio Window and Door Kvetching
Who actually needs four separate doors into a building that is basically just two rooms? Well, apparently the POs did. Between building the studio in 1999…
Studio With New Flooring
Once the prep work was complete, it was time to put in some tile–lots and lots of tile. Once the tiles were in place, the…
Studio Flooring Prep
Once everything was out of the studio and the materials for the new floors arrived, it was time to get to work. 1. First the…
Studio Prep
We wrote a while back about a flood in the studio building, and this past summer we started work not only repairing the damage, but…
How do you get a flood on a mountain?
When we were having the pool resurfaced and discovered the blocked bottom drain, we tried to sort out the purpose of the various taps in…
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…