Back in Cambridge

We returned home at one o'clock in the morning and wearily entered the house. What a great welcome home - a brand new set of stair risers and treads. Walking up the stairs and not having them squeak and creak and sink, but instead stand strong and silent as we dragged our bags upstairs. Ah, a small pleasure.

The work demolishing downstairs keeps moving on. After two and in some places three layers, we've discovered the original 1891 floors. Look how wide those boards were!

We are saving the still old, but not quite as wide floors. Not sure if they are also from 1891, but they are old enough to have been held in by square-edged nails. We're saving the boards for a future project. Will they become the dining room table? Shelves? We'll see...

Although the demolition is almost done, the dust is still settling. Here's a photo of the spice drawers that are upstairs from the work. I cleaned these drawers two weeks ago. Arg.

Spice Racks with extra dust

Clean again - how long will that last?

In order to try to minimize the constant dusting, we decided to put as much stuff as we could in a POD and put it in storage for the next couple of months. Even with this POD mostly full, our house still seems full.