Last weekend, which seems like a month ago, but was really only like 6 days.  Oh, yeah, anyway, last weekend a friend asked me what was left to do in the house.  Man, that's a long list.

Here it is

Remodeling:

• Build a powder room and mud room in the old kitchen.
• Replace exterior door into the mudroom.
• Railing for mud room door.
• Tear out fake plastic brick wall in living room.
• Tear out and center the fireplace in living room.  and build a new one.
• Construct built-ins and add matching (custom milled, to match the original) trim around the stained glass windows.
• Re-Concrete driveway.
• Refinish or replace hardwood floors.  
• We're leaving the boring carpet in place until the rest of the work is done.  We're smart.
• Replace windows in the mudroom, master bedroom, and bath.
• Gut and remodel the 2nd story bath.  Probably down to studs.  Probably also involves some plumbing.  
• Take over the closet in Thomas's room and make it into a double closet in the master.
• Build a new closet in the weird shaped cubby in Thomas's room.  
• I think Jeff thinks we can skip this, but I think that's a bad plan.  If we don't build it when we take over the other one, we never will.  
• Refinish basement!  Including:
• Man Room
• Laundry Room
• 3/4 bath
• Storage and craft room
• Attic: what do we do here?  I don't know!  something about the HVAC and set it up to be a useful space.

Those yew are GONE, by the way.

My husband and I did something super awesome and free last night --- we fixed our reclining sofa!

We have had it for a few years.  We got it at Costco for the game room at the old house, and it really doesn't fit in this room all that great, but we are dealing with it until we can move it into the new game room (under the new kitchen) and it was kind of saggy, but only on the seats we sit on that reline.  Weird.

So we turned it over and figured out what was wrong: