Silly Poll & Saturday Gallimaufry: Accident & Renovations

[neadods]

So - there's a window with a net curtain over it at all times for some degree of privacy. Whaddaya think of the privacy option of hanging a big hunk of stained glass in front of it instead?

[Poll #1599653]


ACCIDENT:
After giving me the classic "The check's in the mail," the check has duly arrived. This entire process has been remarkably trouble-free (so far). I have state law to thank, I think; by law I am allowed to take it anywhere for repair and Geico has fallen all over themselves to remind me of that. Also by state law, whoever does the rear-ending is at fault, even if the person in front of them came to a dead stop in the fast lane of a superhighway screaming "I DONE SEEN ELVIS RAHT IN FRUNNA ME!"


RENOVATIONS
I'm totally avoiding dealing with the bathroom by writing this post I'm back to thinking of using click-and-lock flooring where I'm pulling up the carpet. Even if I don't save a lot of money, I am, I think, going to save tons in time and aggravation. If I refinish a floor, it's going to take days to dry and we have to board 5 cats somewhere all that time. If I use click and lock, we can be walking on it by evening. And I specifically want to use a floating flooring because that leaves me the option of pulling it all up and doing the refinishing later if I want to.

This also, to be blunt, allows me to "steal" time from the span allotted to doing the halls and give it to finishing the bathroom properly. If I can't keep the overall time parameters, the work's going to stretch into Thanksgiving and Christmas and I don't want that.

For anyone interested: this is the inspiration for the doors on the vanity and two of these roses and one set of squares will be on the drawers. I had the perfect drawer pull in mind and now I can't find a picture online, which means I'm going to run to Lowe's and panic buy. It's sort of like this, although if I can't get it, I think this will do.

Comments

[starmalachite.livejournal.com]

Re stained glass: I was meaning to suggest that use when you 1st posted about buying the piece. You said then that it clashed slightly with your color scheme, but it's certainly worth making adjustments for. Is it a Frank Lloyd Wright reproduction or just in his style?

Re accident: Glad Geico behaved themselves for once.

Re flooring: Click & lock indeed sounds like a sensible option. And if you can find a good sale, the price could be quite competitive, especially compared to boarding the cats.

Re stenciling: O HAI THAR, fellow Charles Rennie Mackintosh groupie! He used similar stenciling in his own home in Glasgow. I love his transitional Art Nouveau/Art Deco style.

Glad things are progressing for you on a number of fronts.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

The house already has a bookshelf in every room (or will again as soon as I finish the bathroom.) TBH, no carpets and stained glass in every window is my idea of perfection.

if you can find a good sale, the price could be quite competitive,

I need to check Lumber Liquidators. If I go with bottom-line Ikea laminate, it's about $1.25 per square foot plus $50 in underlay. If I go with the higher-level new one they have that I rather like, it's about $2.80 + underlay. And if I go with Pergo, it's just under $3 per square foot with attached underlay.

People tell me refinishing is cheaper, but by the time you add in labor costs, cat boarding, et al, I'm not sure it would be.

O HAI THAR, fellow Charles Rennie Mackintosh groupie!

Oh, yeah! I love his stuff. stratfordbabe has a Mackintosh rose ring that I've been coveting since the day she got it.

[starmalachite.livejournal.com]

If you ever get to Toronto, be sure to go to the Royal Ontario Museum. They've recreated 2 rooms from Mackintosh's house in Glasgow, filled with his furniture.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Ooo!

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Glad the cheque duly arrived!

stained glass

[mustangsally78.livejournal.com]

Is always awesome!

Re: stained glass

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Glad of that myself - it means I can move on actually getting the darn thing fixed!

Re: stained glass

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Having seen your latest post, you are awesome. I'm *still* not standing in the bathroom with a power tool yet...

not standing in the bathroom with a power tool yet

[mustangsally78.livejournal.com]

You know you can hang the stained glass from a chain in front of the window. We had one like that for years when I was a kid. It's much easier on the nerves.

If I lived closer I'd totally help!

Re: not standing in the bathroom with a power tool yet

[neadods.livejournal.com]

That's what I intend to do. In the living room and library, I hope to hang the chain between the window and the curtain rod, so curtains are still easily drawn.

I'd love help; if you were near, I'd hold you to that! I've just had to come up for air, literally. It's not that the sanding's too hard, it's that between the dust mask and the goggles, my glasses fog up about every three minutes and I have to stop until they clear.