Oh, The Joys of Home Improvement

You have to imagine Johnny Carson doing the voice of Art Fern to get the right tone.

OK, so we've been doing a little work on the house.

Took out all the carpeting (bye bye, dust mites)...

...and here's a before and after on the stairs.















Now, the flooring was a bit of a bear. The installer said it would take three days. Steve figured four, maybe five. It took, uh, eighteen. We were...fatigued, to say the least. Still, it looked nice once they finally got done (and after they came back a month later to fix some mistakes).




Next it was time to turn to the roof. We got rid of these nasty, busted-up, dried out, twenty-year-old cedar shakes and went for architectural shingles. In fact, they just finished about an hour ago. Here's before...









...during...







...and after.








We're taking a breather. We've had enough of living in a construction zone for a while.

S & J