State of the house

Due to popular demand — at least, Pooks keeps asking — here is a little bit of what my house looks like now.

This is what the living room looked like then:

Now, the floors are completely done: installed, sanded, polished. The kids enjoy sock skating, and we don’t need the TV as loud any more, because there’s zero sound absorption in the house.

Quite a long time ago I wrote about the day Darin and I spent cleaning out the room that would be my office. Well, one thing led to another, and pretty much it reverted to its original state:

Since we were getting its floors done, all the crap had to go. The giant desk had to go (thank goodness). All the boxes and assorted ephemera got stuck upstairs in the middle bedroom, where they still haven’t been sorted through. I asked for the walls to be painted a warm red, and I covered the couch with a slipcover. I’ve gotten a teeny desk for my laptop. Of course, I’ve already started getting piles of stuff. Really gotta stop that habit.

And, for Tamar, who stayed in my guest room a year and a half ago, this is what it looks like now: