Photo dump

Lots of little things going on, and it's easier to explain in pictures.

Got some air grills water-jet cut at the shop I have access to.
Sandblasted them and hit them with a coat of matte black spray paint.
They look great, can't wait to get them on the wall to cover up the hole in the small room at the top of the stairs, affectionately called the "Harry Potter Room".

Sometimes it's the little things.
Looks sharp.

Have a new hive of bees on order, as well as 6 blueberry bushes, 3 cranberry bushes, and a Redbud tree.

The oddity in the back bedroom. Maybe one of you knows what the heck this is.
it's behind the bedroom door.

The top comes off, but you can see where it was nailed shut at one time.

It was installed after the room was finished, because it goes over the trim.

There's pipe holes in the cover of the bottom "shelf" but nothing through the upper shelves.

The is the view into the chamber. One hole in the bottom. Here's one weird cut-out in the back board.
There's an inverted one in the board right above, to the right,
From here we see that the box is actually clad in metal.

The inverted cutout. It's hard to tell, but past that upside-down U is a small space behind the chimney.
The bright white part behind the boards to the left is the chimney.

Here it is from the side. The only part that's clad in metal sheeting is the second big section down.
The top board is wood, then the metal box, then more wood below it.

This was thrown up pretty hastily, with little care about matching trim or anything. The outlet is in wallboard, the rest of the wall to the corner is panel board. Frankly, I'm tempted to tear the whole thing out and expose the chimney - it would let the door swing open wider, and give back a tiny bit of floor space. But I have no idea what's going on behind the paneling. I would have to explore.

Emptied out the back bedroom into the master so I can start working on this room.
The new drywall and spackle lines are from where the insulation guys blew out the wall.
This room is going to take a lot of spackle.

At one point, all of the trim had a slight gap above it so that hooks could be secured over it,
and pictures hung rather than putting nails in the wall.
It was all very civilized. There's still some of the hooks in the house. But someone, at some point, decided they didn't like the look, so they filled in the gap with rope calk and other various caulks, ran some scotch tape over it in some places, and called it good.
Now I'm painstakingly picking back *out* all the caulk (at least just this end of the room.)

So that's my excitement for now. Hopefully this week, we'll see the doors go back on the Master bedroom.