Upstairs

A few images of the upstairs. Nothing too exciting. Here's the "master bedroom," which we chose for our room because it is at the back of the house and has the biggest closet. Drawbacks - this is the only room in the house that doesn't have the original woodwork, and is very far away from the one and only bathroom. It is, however, very private.




Here's a few looking from the front bedroom (future guest room), into the middle bedroom (future music room), with our bedroom through that last doorway.





This is the long, long hallway that runs from the top of the stairs to the very small, ugly bathroom. It might not be apparent from these photos, but the floors in the upstairs aren't worth refinishing, unfortunately. The master bedroom has a bunch of bad boards and boards that have been replaced with what appears to be pieces cut from furniture, the music room has linoleum and roofing felt glued down so thick it could survive an atomic bomb, and the hallway would be lovely refinished but sanding around the railing would be a bigger pain in the ass then we're willing to deal with. So it's new floors for the upstairs. These pictures are from about 6 weeks ago. We've moved in since then, but haven't really unpacked anything for the 2nd floor that we didn't have to. You pretty much need to wear shoes at all times (I keep flip flops by the bed for middle-of-the-night bathroom trips) unless you're John, in which case you bitch about the occassional splinter. We've already ordered the flooring - bamboo from Artemis, which should arrive any day now.

Another flooring challenge awaits in the two stair wells.

The top photo is the front staircase, which will probably be painted and have a carpet runner installed. John has a pretty wild idea for the paint job on the external wall; he's calling it "deconstructed victorian." I'll let that remain a mystery for now. The bottom photo is the back staircase, leading into the kitchen. There's a door to the outside directly at the bottom of the stairs. That crap on the walls is sheets of styrofoam that the previous owner was using as insulation. There's some gorgeous (read that sarcastically) linoleum on the top landing. Our bedroom is through the doorway on the right. This staircase is pretty low-priority, but it needs some basic clean up for now, and a light might be nice.