progress, of a sort...

so this weekend we made some progress on the hall.

the hall you say? what was wrong with the hall? Why, nothing was wrong with the hall, I say.

We'd just never gotten our acts together to get my 5 foot cherry desk out of the damn entry way. That is no longer the case. Saturday, after the nice cable man came to hook up the cable in our bedroom (thank GOD--I am just too lazy to get up and go downstairs to indulge in my crappy am tv tendencies), JBB and moved the desk up to the room that will be my office when the devil wallpaper has perished.

It took about two seconds to realize that yeah, we'd have to take the top off to get the sucker up the stairs. First off, it's 5 feet long. Second off, it's solid cherry, so it's really heavy. Luckily, my dad made it for me years ago, and is ingenious when it comes to nifty little tricks, and so the top comes off. It's held on by little L-shaped pieces of cherry that are screwed into the top, and fit into routed slots on the braces so the wood has room to expand and contract. And, thank god, they slots and L-pieces are both numbered. Otherwise we'd have been royally screwed.

So now we are back to our lovely entryway system with a bookcase with cabinet on the bottom, recycling bin, trash bin, and shredder. SO much better.

And as our own little reward, we finally got the stencil I'd ordered for the dining room in the mail! But that is another post, hopefully with pictures.