After a day in the sun playing soccer, Sunday was time to get down to business on the second bedroom. It’s been in the works for some time – the cork flooring in the dressing room has been laid, I re-plastered a section that was damaged years ago when I was demo-ing the adjacent bathroom, and two thirds of the walls have been painted. By Sunday, it was time to cut and place the trim for both sections of the bedroom.

The amount of polish well cut trim adds to a room is extremely gratifying. And, thankfully, not that difficult. It was, in fact, for more taxing to clean the room and clear out all of the tools. And equally gratifying.

The one draw back to the work as it nears what I anticipated to be “complete”, is that there’s always a few new tasks that just beg to be done. I notice the sloppiness of some trim work by previous owners – I notice chips in the paint left by removing the old fittings. The floor, which I had decided not to refinish until I sell the house at a much later date, now bothers the hell out of me.

For the time being, I’ll have to live with these concessions. There are now two other areas that are in much more dire need of attention. Seeing how good the refinished trim looks in the second bedroom, I realize that taking the same approach in the foyer and landing will dramatically improve the feel of the house.

As the upstairs comes to a close, I have a strong desire to purge most of the shit I’ve accumulated over the last couple years. Hopefully I’ll find time this week to at least gather up the shit I don’t need or want anymore.

Many a month has passed, and I have loads of pictures and videos. The house is coming along… however, that will have to wait. For the meantime, I’ll just pass along a couple pics of the coffee table Lauren and I built a couple weekends ago. Short story is that we say a mid century table we liked that cost $375… a few moments inspection of the piece led us to believe we could build it a a day or two. Here you are: