The remodel started last August and finished in early Feb. Since Thanksgiving it's been pretty much "done" except for a dozen or more items on the punch list. I decided it must be called a Punch List because by the time you're through it you're ready to punch somebody.
But it's done now, so what was an outdoor patio beside the garage surrounded by overgrown, mosquito-breeding myrtles, is now a large dining room with a galleried loft office space that was built into the roof of the garage. It is lovely.
The nearest bit of the extension is a screen porch (to foil mosquitos mentioned earlier). I have more photos of the inside to organize. Alongside all this, we put a new roof on the whole house, had Texas Gas connect us to the mains so we could install a gas cooktop and barbecue, and had the icky popcorn ceilings in the upstairs replastered and all the bedrooms painted cheerful neutral colors. We'd been planning to do this more or less since we moved in, so lots of storage considerations and furniture purchases had been put off until we knew what we would be living with. Now we know, so there's lots of work to do.
Here is a pleasant distraction:
My first proper knitted socks. I did a thicker pair 18months ago because I couldn't bear the thought of fingering weight yarn and 2.5mm needles. These are official. They are Twinkleberry by Beth LaPensee (she has some Nutkin socks too, for you Beatrix Potter fans) in Shibui Knits Sock. The pattern is a pretty lace with a short row heel and toe, which stumped me for a while. You can see in the picture that the right sock was my first effort. They are now washed and blocked and beautifully soft, and will wait until we all put socks on again, in like, late October.
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