Adventures in Remuddling

After opening up the walls, Tig fashioned a remote camera out of some wire and duct tape. With the camera firmly attached to a wand of metal, he fished the camera into the hole and took pictures. Actually, it was a little more complicated than that. The camera was wired to the laptop, so that we could see the images from the camera. It was much like microsurgery, with Tig manipulating the camera, while I operate the laptop and snapped pictures using remote commands.

Here were some of our suspects:

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This past winter, we spent a week in Paris at a fabulous apartment by the Eiffel Tower.

In this apartment, we noticed these neat wall mounted radiators/towel warmers in the bathrooms. We were definitely intrigued.

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We still have not moved into our bedroom yet. We did get a step closer today.

The previous owners had a “unique” (for lack of a better word) plate collection hanging on their bedroom wall. I did not know the bedroom was the place to hang plates …

Anyway, you can get a glimpse of the plate collection on the wall from a picture taken during the home inspection. (Also see “Obstacle #2” post for picture without plates)

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It’s official, we’ve completely lost our minds.  Explanation will be forthcoming tomorrow.

We still have not moved into our bedroom.

Everytime we seem to be getting closer, we actually get further and further away.

It would have been nice to move in to the bedroom by early fall. The items we definitely needed to do was to fix the closet (which we finished a few weeks before Thanksgiving) and paint the room. If it was just that, we’d easily be moved in by now. However, a few problems came up.

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Lest we get too wordy, an illustration of why we’re insane…

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I’ve lived most of my adult life with Tig, assuming “adult” starts at 18, and we’ve been together since I was 22. Not having lived through a period of single-with-career, I’ve never had the autonomous experience of picking out furniture by myself. We first started out scrounging furniture off the streets of San Francisco, then progressed to yard sales. The pinnacle was dropping a nice sum on the only couch we could agree upon in a department store.

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Work on the master bedroom came to an abrupt halt this week, as Tig switched his focus to insulating the attic. The weather got milder this past week, and he seized the opportunity to do some work before temperatures dropped.

Much of what needed to be done was spelled out in the energy audit: air sealing and attic floor 6.25″ fiberglass batting insulation.

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Today we worked on a different type of house. This is the house that Tig built.

This is my creation

Now if you’ll excuse us, we have some butternut squash soup to make and a holiday block party to attend.

[Insert evil laugh]