Becky's quilt obsession

After the near disaster of the last delivery of building materials, I decided that the last 2 doors should go in the garage space upstairs when they were delivered, so they could be finished where I could walk around them. Simple goal, right? All that should have been needed was to move the black totes that held the last of the books from the train room. I thought there should be room for some of them on the metal shelving in the garage. They were about ½” too tall for the bottom shelf, so I measured and found that they should fit on the shelf that held an assortment of lids for plastic bins/totes that I use in the current quilt room. I moved the lids to a table temporarily residing in the garage. The big black totes fit. However, they were too heavy for me to lift. I used a slightly smaller tote and transferred part of the books into it. Then I could lift the first tote up on the shelf – not filling it as full. I needed another tote for the leftover books that would fit on the emp...

The flooring in in!!!!! What a mess it created! I opened the library door and entered the fog. It is everywhere.  My floors were not level. Black Bart, as well as the other machines, need level floors. To do that, they grind off the high spots and fill the low spots. All that grey is fill.  We decided to replace the flooring in the family room side of the basement as well. It had a terribly low spot that "gave" when you walked over the laminate.  Dear Daughter to the rescue. She removed all of the old flooring and the shoe moulding as well. Multiple people helped transport all that flooring up the steep side driveway. My neighbors loaned me their trash dumpsters to get it all taken away. This is the family room after install. It looks so much better. The cabinet all the way to the right is a Murphy Bed as this room functions as our guest room. The closed door is to the bathroom, which also can function as a darkroom. I've removed most of the equipment and put a laminate c...

I have learned that not much happens late in the year until Christmas is over. This is what it looked like after the actual top of the train layout was gone. Friends in the train operators group were so helpful in getting everything removed. By the end of their work the only wall that remained intact was the one with all Don's pictures and the railroad lanterns. And the ceiling. My son-in-law, Jason decided he would tear down the ceiling. He tried to talk me into keeping it, but I really wanted it gone. Underneath it, we found almost another foot of walls, so I will have nearly 9 foot ceilings down here. It will not resemble a basement when it is finished. The picture is a little dark, but it shows the ceiling removed and the first 2 rows of can lights. There are plenty of circuits down there (see all the fascia lighting in above picture), so J is fixing it so I can have some of the lights connected, but some on different switches. (There are 8 of them right now). The closets and l...