David's pretty tricky, eh?

The bookcases installed even to the knobs on the cabinet doors. Still a bit more work to do to the floor and around the schoolroom door. But it looks great, and after a few weeks for the paint to cure I can put books in!

Michael and Jon M. work together to move one of five units from the garage to the living room. I should tell you that the reason we have these photos from today on the blog so soon is that both David and Benjamin got digital cameras this past week and have been having a lot of fun with them. So now we can update a whole lot quicker!

Benjamin poses, holding up the wall, along with Michael holding Isaac this morning-Sat. Sept. 16, 2006-.as they wait for Uncle Jon McAuley to arrive. You can see the new door Michael just put in this past week. It is a pocket door and leads to the schoolroom. There is still plastic on each window pane, covered with paint. They will come off soon. Michael has been on vacation starting the 11th and has next week off also.
This approxiamately the same view as the other two photos, looking at the same wall.

Here is the living room before we did anything to it. The previous owners had torn out some smelly fake rock from around the fireplace insert. They put up some sheets on the studs for a temporary fix. We put up panelling (see previous picture) for a temporary fix so we could get a loan on the house.

Panelling was one of the first things Michael did for this room soon after we started work in June of 2005. Sarah enjoyed hamming in many of these pictures. The woodstove on the right was in a different location and Michael moved it out of the way so he could work on the wall behind where it was and on the floor also.