Snow!

Our first real snow!

(It's only an inch or two)

Progress on the bookshelves

Now that the doors are on,

I could finally do the last of the sorting.

I put the most delicate and old books
behind the glass doors.

Now I can read in peace.

Family Room

I spent quite a bit of time trying

to improve the shelf and mantle contents.

This is the previous version:

This is the new one.

Against my bookloving inclinations,

I ignored topics and grouped the books

according to their physical appearance

to give a cleaner look.

Glass bottles went from the hearth to the mantle.

I put the photos together,

instead of scattering them among everything.

The big tray now serves as a fireplace screen.

The large pewter platter hides the light outlet.

The big ceramic apple landed up there

on the top right shelf.

All in all...
I don't think it looks much different.

Basement

Yay! No more old carpet in the bathroom!

Just nice new floor...

(left over marble from our Master Bathroom.)

There they are!

My bookshelves...

almost finished.

Here is the new home for our middle wall unit

pieces from the Living Room.
(Those white and black horizontal lines
on the ceiling are just the ceiling foreshortened.)

Basement

Map Room

We put the ends of the wall unit

in the map room.

Living Room

We took the wall unit out of the living room:

We put the piano in another corner

facing the keys out, this time.

The room looks bigger now that

the piano doesn't dominate the space.