Notes on the New House

Ok I know I shouldn't be so materialistically attached to THINGS, but Christ this Sputnik Chandelier is so gorgeous i can hardly wait for it to get here. It's going in our craftsman Dining Room and it is going to be hot Hot HOT! We met a floor refinisher this morning for an estimate to redo the floors and will soon with another HVAC guy I met a few weeks ago for another quote on that... the first guy acted like I was asking him to mount some Sisyphusian Nightmare. Oh, to put ductwork and air conditioning in an 80 year old house! Impossible! Crazy! He was full of lots of NOs, and his price reflected how impossible he really must think the job is. Steven and I will be scraping up 80 years of vinyl and linoleum in the Kitchen so the floor guy can refinish the wood we will hopefully find below. And we came up with a "make-do" plan for the kitchen for a while, until we go totally materialistically crazy and decide to sink gazillions into it to make it super dreamy. Two of the upstairs bedrooms have giant walk-in closets, one on each side, and one side of which is finished with hardwood floors and built-in shelving and cubbies galore. The other side in each has plywood floor, but still a lot of space. We are thinking of doing a bed which builds into that space with a curtainey/portiere kinda thing... inspired by those cool beds Thomas Jefferson tucked away out of rooms in Monticello 200 years ago. And we'll still have a 8 x 8 walk-in left next to that. Ok turning off my bourgeois dreams now.