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loveyh/Shannon: TWINS! They are going to be so happy in that sweet little room, hermes!
Pika: Hi there! blog hopping here....
Kerri: BTW thanks for something new to learn today. I had to look up Ketubah and it was interesting. Also, if you want to visit them, I used two different links in my tags to my two differenty journal/blogs.
Kerri: Hi, I was just surfing through. Wow, I love your older home. Y'all have put a LOT of work into it. Very nice! Congrats on the babies - hope all goes well for you.
Alicia: WOW TWINS!!!!! COngratulations sweetheart. I am SO happy for you. Miss you terribly. :)ALicia
adrienne: your house, blog and photography are looking great!!!!!!!adrienne
Alicia: OMG HG, The house looks beautiful!!! Miss you & thinking of you. Take care,
st james cooke: this looks great! i've really enjoyed looking through all your progress!
Miss Understanding: Hi! My name's Miss Understamding! I'm new to bravenet and I'm just stopping in to say "HI" and to let you know if you'd ever like a place to just relax and vent, I'm only a mouse click away!
fries: It looks beautiful. Just stopping by to peek in the windows and say hi
Tracey: WOO freakin HOO HG! I am so happy for you. It looks awesome. I love old homes. They have so much character.
Don M: I can't believe that you all have had to put up with these idiots. It makes me realize how great the folks I have working for me really are. You all are saints. You home is really looking great inspite of those creeps. The master bath is wonderful. I love your dog too!
Nathalie: Hellew, wishing you an AWESOME weekend! Please stop by and sign my "Bravenet Bloggers" map. There's a link to it in on my blog. Make sure you leave your URl to your blog so people can come and visit you Thanks Muchly
Eric: Hi there, just stop by to say hello!
venom75: Have a nice and safe Halloween.
Brenda: Heat AND hardwood floors!! Isn't it delicious? If I had heat and new hardwood floors, I would want to roll around naked. Um, but with the lights off.Thanks for stopping by the CrazyStable, where we are cold and splintery...
robin stivers: Hi Cynthia, If you would like to get Early American Homes magazine, their website is www.EALonline.com. If you like antique decorating youll like this mag. It is my favorite! robin
Johanna: ODB!!!!! ha ha ha - you know I love that ref.Crap about the flood- Noah never had it so bad as the NE this week. (ok so he did- but he had endless gofer wood)Here is to better days, and this being done in time for Turkey!
BmS: So you both stink and are drinking copious amounts of wine. Are you guys French?
Tonya: Thats a great house, love the pics.
Tracey: HG.....I am so green right now. I so want your walls! Two of our rooms that were redone already are cracking.....I love your journal....Hoping the leak is not serious. Hang in there cuase it is gorgrous!Tracey
Christopher Day: I found your blog just today. You don't seem to be on the Houseblogs map. I have my primary home in South Salem (Lewisboro), so I'm another Westchester County resident. My site on Houseblogs concerns a new house project I'm finishing on the Jersey Shore.I am most interested in your Unico system. I chickened-out w/RT Unico and now I probably regret it. Best of luck - it all looks great! - Chris
Johanna: A leak! Oy!!!! Can't wait to see it in person.
venom75: Out blog hopping and thought I'd stop by for a visit.
Anne: just dropped in to say hi
Rebecca: It's really come a long way! Email me sometimes and Ill tell you how I screwed up on Bill's website. And here I thought I was adding somme humor to his stress - it totally backfired.
Sami: Was out bloghopping. Your home is going to be so beautiful! I can't wait to see it when it is done! Hang in there!
chris: Can you live like that? Wanna trade? Mine's been half done for 10 years!!!
home*sweet*home: HEY HEY HEY! Much progress! LOL at the August 1st, didn't I tell you? Remember you will live there a long time, don't kill yourself now or you will learn to hate the house...take it slow, do it right and it will all be just a dream later...
Wendy: Here's some cool smilies I found
tnp020600: Hermes, your house is just BEAUTIFUL!! What an absolute dream come true. Talk about finding the perfect house. This sure will be a nice project and something I can see you doing so well :-)
Meg: Can't wait to see your plans develop!
Home*Sweet*Home: It's lovely...the only thing I can say - having been there before - is "BE PATIENT!" Patience is a virtue! And you'll need plenty of it - and a good sense of humor. Keep posting...
Betty: Hey girl!
skater: WELCOME to the community nice journal you have here keep up the good work i know you will be successful!!! tag me back

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Wednesday, February 6th 2008

1:45 AM

Fun with the Laundry Closet!

As mentioned earlier, we're doing a small project involving our laundry closet, which formerly opened into our family room (?!).  We have switched the opening of the closet to the back hallway, and combined two closets together so that we'll have one large closet for the terminal of the laundry chute plus a great convenient place to store the vacuum (which was always in the way previously) as well as this great Hoover FloorMate thing that I swear by, as well as other cleaning stuff.

This is what the laundry hallway area looked like before we bought the house, and then after our initial changes the first year we bought the house:


Here's the current progress!  Old opening sealed up:



And new opening which has been cut, framed, sheetrocked, and the door hung:

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