Well, that's not exactly true, but as a follower of this blog you may have noticed that we like to have projects! Since the big house projects are done, A has returned to Punk's bunk beds that he started a long time ago in a lifetime far, far away. Most of the assembly was done before we left Boise, but he didn't get to finish them. So, that's what he's been working on lately. We transformed the upstairs "unused" room into a finishing station and he's been layering on the stain. The beds are coming along nicely and A plans to put them together for the kiddinkidinks to use by next weekend!


See the safety rail and the ladder in the back? They can be bunked or not. Punk is really excited to have them bunked, so we'll see how he does up there...
Putting poly on the bubinga to make it nice and smooth. So pretty! Mama like-a de shiny! Meanwhile, I've been working on the great room curtains...and I'm done! Woo hoo! I love the way they add a little punch to this otherwise very neutral room. :)And, the same shot during the daytime! :)I also took a few moments to paint up this bench for the back entry. It was sort of an experiment in distressing because A's next-to-next project is storage cabinet/armoir for the great room (for my table linens, board games, stuff that has no other home) and I've been thinking of using a distressed finish on it. After this "trial run" I'm totally going for it! I chose a very simple technique for my first stab (paint, sand edges, clear finish), but I'm going all out with layers of paint and a glaze for the armoir!


So, here's the bench nicely painted, pre-distressing...

And, after a little undoing...