January 15 -- New and Old Hallway

This is the view of the hallway from the sitting room through the 1960's section. As mentioned earlier, the floor blends new sitting room installation with 1960's refinished planks. On the left is the linen closet, the new "off-season" closet, Ava's hallway, steps to the kitchen, and Finally Char's craft room. Ava's bath is the door facing the viewer.

January 15 -- New Sitting Room Sub-Floor

Here is the new subfloor for the sitting room. We have extended the new flooring to tie into into the 1960's hallway floor, which was standard 2 and 3/8" heart of pine boards.

Again, the white sliver you see is light from the room below. The new subfloor sits atop the old planking/fireplace room ceiling.

The odd threshold piece you see has been removed since the new floor has been "toothed in" with the old.

January 13 -- "Proper Place"

Apparently, the proper place is under a 1960's-era floor being ripped up in 2015....

January 13 -- Speaking of the Sitting Room....

More unplanned mission creep. The floor in the sitting room is too old -- and too-often sanded in the past -- to allow us to sand it yet again for refinishing. Many of the tongue and groove boards had lost the upper half of the groove. We have decided to replace the floor completely. This good news is that many of the squeaks will be addressed and repaired properly.

The lower left side of this board shows the original thickness when the floor was first installed. the rest (toward the lower right of photo) shows how much has been sanded away over the years.

This is looking straight down at the floor. That white light coming through the gaps? That's the fireplace room beneath. 

January 11,12,13 -- Hallway Closet Progress

This room was my nursery in 1970, then my dad's home office until about 1980, then his clothes closet until 1995, and finally Char and my closet until last week. It is slated to become our "off-season closet" for winter coats and accessories. There will also be shelving for somebody's comic collection. 

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January 13 -- Insulation Installation

With the new lighting and HVAC installation completed in the master bedroom, we are able to have insulation blown into the attic area above the room.

This is the tube being fed in through the sitting room window:

The insulation was blown in and the guys were gone in less than an hour.

January 8 -- Acme Ideal Tea

This tea bag tab was found underneath an area of the 1964-era flooring that we are refinishing.