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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!!!

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Friday, March 21st 2008

8:37 PM

A big week...

This has been a big week for us around King Street Farm, but somehow we don't really have all that much to show for it yet. As a matter of fact, the house looks like a tornado picked up the contents of a medium-sized Pottery Barn Kids store along with that of an antiques mart, jumbled them together with items from a home improvement store as well as sawdust, plaster dust and the ever-present clumps of dog hair, and then strewed the lot all over the entire house in no particular semblance of order. But the good news is, we're making progress!

Progress this week includes:

1) removing a 1950s era closet in the nursery (which is in the original portion of the house)

2) patching the floor in the nursery where there used to be a radiator as well as the newly-removed closet

3) re-framing several doors and closet openings in the nursery, & replacing the closet doors.

4) stripping suspected lead paint off door frames in several upstairs bedrooms

5) sending out several original bead and batten doors for dipping/paint stripping

6) new light fixture in the nook

7) new light fixture/ceiling fan in Cynthia's office

8 ) removal of one downstairs door altogether, and of course patching the subsequent hinge holes, etc.

9) arrival of new family room furniture (two tables still to be delivered, and one ottoman still to be purchased)

10) arrival of literally dozens of boxes from Pottery Barn Kids and Babies R Us. Seriously, it's well over 40 boxes full. Twins need a LOT of stuff!

Still underway/hopefully to be completed by the end of this weekend:

1) more paint stripping from door frames

2) caulking, spackling, etc. in nursery

3) priming walls in nursery

4) boiling the lead paint off several sets of hinges

5) *finally* finishing the painting the pantry closet in the kitchen (don't ask why it's taken me nearly 3 years to do this; I don't know!)

6) hopefully painting the insides of the nursery closets

After we recover from this huge punch list, we have plenty left to do by our self-imposed Nursery Completion Deadline of April 15. This includes:

1) painting the walls and ceilings

2) sanding, staining, polyurethane-ing the floors in the nursery

3) painting the baseboards after the poly is dry

4) optional: repainting the babies' bathroom if we have time, energy, and/or decide it's actually worth it

Not related to the nursery project, but nonetheless in the works for the next two weeks: replacing a few exterior doors and storm doors throughout the house. We've hired someone to do this because we have nothing even approaching a square or plumb opening in any of the areas in question.

Once all this is done we can get to the fun stuff: assembling the cribs, moving the furniture into the room, and putting away all the random baby stuff!!

Thank God these are the only kids we're planning to have, because I am fairly confident that we wouldn't live through having to do all this again at some point in the future.