Saturday, September 12, 2009

Master Bedroom Update

I'm finding it difficult to keep a clean layout with Blogger, but am hoping that by making a tiny tweak -- centering the pictures instead of using a right justification -- I can at least avoid weird empty spaces. In the words of Tobias Funke, "Let the great experiment begin!"

Sam teamed up with Patrick to take out the green linoleum floor tiles in the master bedroom, which proved to have very sticky undersides. Sam said he scraped out about half of the floor before handing the job off to Patrick.
Later, Elizabeth and Sean gladly picked up some hammers and helped tear down the walls. Part of the way through the demolition, we found a window frame in the back of the room, indicating that the master bedroom used to be at the very back of the house. We joked that we could re-insert the window to restore the house to its original glory, but decided it would be very weird to have a window between the master and second bedrooms. We just don't swing that way. Eventually, we got both sides of the walls out, opening up the view from the master bedroom all the way to the backyard. Incidentally, this also really improved the range of Ben's little clock radio, which can be heard throughout the house now that the house is essentially just one big room. Amazing.Ben has since framed out the walk-through closet, the outline of which you can see here. (The photo looks toward the closet and into the master bathroom.) There will be a fold-out door in the center of the closet on the bedroom side, and a regular door in the center of the closet on the bathroom side. Sam and I will each have our own side of the closet (on either side of the doors). Hard to describe, and not a great picture, sorry. More has been framed out since, but I can't find a picture right now. I'll post one later, which will hopefully be more illustrative.

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