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  • Our Floors Are Sanded and Polished

    Our Floors Are Sanded and Polished

    We also got the floors sanded and polished. Looks so smooth like a lake. Here’s the kitchen floor: Here’s the office/library floor: Here’s the shiny living room floor:

  • 10 Days Later and It Finally Looks Like a Bathroom

    10 Days Later and It Finally Looks Like a Bathroom

    So after all the angst we had about what we needed to do, this is what we accomplished: The bathroom window got framed AND the tub got installed!  If you look on the left, our carpenters enclosed the steam pipe in a rounded wooden cover.  It still needs to be painted. They also framed the…

  • Next On the Agenda

    Next On the Agenda

    The following things must be accomplished over the next nine days when the plumber is due to arrive: – the floors will be sanded, which is going to take approx 4 days, so no other work can be done in the apartment during that time. Hopefully, – the brick wall in the kitchen will be…

  • Our New Kitchen Cabinets

    Our New Kitchen Cabinets

    Here they are with the new door hardware installed.

  • Completed Oak Window Sills with Final Coats of Varnish

    Completed Oak Window Sills with Final Coats of Varnish

    Here are the sills with final coats of varnish, including one we put down inside the “tuberculosis window”, which is the first pic.  The two other pics are our Kitchen and Living Room Window. Remember how rotted the window sills were?  Now they are solid and will be able to support any weight placed on…

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