Second floor floors floors floors

We've really been chugging along on the second floor (hallway, small bedroom) and this weekend we tackled the floors. We'd been planning on painting all the pine flooring on the second floor white (as in the master bedroom), but since the walls are all white, we decided white floors would be overkill, verging on clinical. So, staining and varnishing it was.

The Front Entrance

is an eyesore. The pathetic garden aside, the front columns are peeling, the sidelights are cracked and painted over, the lights don't work, and there is a rusty mark of where there used to be a second mailbox (for the second unit this house used to have).

Sorry for flashing you for nearly a year, neighbors

We finally got/made some window coverings for our living room.

We built a ...

firepit!