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And back to renovations
Chapter three having been sent to my supervisors just on time for a weekend with sunny weather, we have jumped back to renovation/home improvement mode.
He's been making great progress on the outdoor enclosure for the cats, and I have started repainting the bedroom windows.
Once this is done there will be a cat door where one of the windows used to be, which connects to the enclosure, which is along the front side of the house, just far enough forward as to be able to look around the corner and see the front door. He'd previously buit the main enclosure frame. This week at work he cut and shaped the metal plates for the roof, which he mostly put into place yesterday. Then he started building the frame for the tower.
Yes, of course we need a tower! The neighbour house has a tower*, and we want one too. Ours will be little, big enough for a human to crawl into and sit in, just. It will stick up only a little above the enclosure, which is only just tall enough for us to stand up in, but it is nonetheless enough Up to give a better view ov the neighbourhood, and I think the cats will like it. For ease of construction it is four sided, and will have a pointy roof, with angled roof beams that stick out and are embellished with knotwork, to match the dragons he already did on the beam for the main roof. All this extra makes the project take longer, but should be worth it.
The window frame that will be access to the enclosure got three costs of paint yesterday, and I did the the first coat on one of the windows in the garage last night. We are doing them in black, so the windows will match the front door, which I painted last summer, and I like it so much better.
To be fair, so much of the old white paint had peeled that anything would have looked better. It is clearfrom the layers sern while scraping that the windowand frame outside had only been repainted once since the house was built in the late 50's, and the part between the two panes of glass had never been repainted, and should have been, long ago.
The cats aren't happy with all of this, because we have reinstalled the bedroom door, and are keeping it shut, which means they can't sleep on the bed all day. In otder to install the door it was necessary to take down the wall-mounted paperback bookshelf, which fills the entire space between the doorframe and the built in closet, leaving no room for the door, since the hinges are on the inside. (There is literally no other wall upon which we could have put that bookshelf, nor a room big enough to use the bookshelf as a room divider, as I did at the last house, where it made a walk-in closet space in the bedroom.
Today I need to get the other bedroom window frame scraped and painted, and as many of the windows themselves done as possible. The sooner we finish all the windows, the sooner we can take down that door and let the cats back in. With luck he will get the cat enclosure done soon enough that they can have both the room back, and a new place to play outside all at once, but there is still lots to do, so I don't know how that will work.
* The neighbour house was the orginal house for this neighbourhood, the first home being built in the 1700', the current house in the late 1800's or early 1900's, when that family was involved in the shipping industry, so they had a tower to see when ships were coming in. In those days there wasn't the thin strip of forest blocking the view to the water, which was closer than today as we hadn't rebound as high from glacier melting as we have now, so there was still a harbour at Lövånger.
He's been making great progress on the outdoor enclosure for the cats, and I have started repainting the bedroom windows.
Once this is done there will be a cat door where one of the windows used to be, which connects to the enclosure, which is along the front side of the house, just far enough forward as to be able to look around the corner and see the front door. He'd previously buit the main enclosure frame. This week at work he cut and shaped the metal plates for the roof, which he mostly put into place yesterday. Then he started building the frame for the tower.
Yes, of course we need a tower! The neighbour house has a tower*, and we want one too. Ours will be little, big enough for a human to crawl into and sit in, just. It will stick up only a little above the enclosure, which is only just tall enough for us to stand up in, but it is nonetheless enough Up to give a better view ov the neighbourhood, and I think the cats will like it. For ease of construction it is four sided, and will have a pointy roof, with angled roof beams that stick out and are embellished with knotwork, to match the dragons he already did on the beam for the main roof. All this extra makes the project take longer, but should be worth it.
The window frame that will be access to the enclosure got three costs of paint yesterday, and I did the the first coat on one of the windows in the garage last night. We are doing them in black, so the windows will match the front door, which I painted last summer, and I like it so much better.
To be fair, so much of the old white paint had peeled that anything would have looked better. It is clearfrom the layers sern while scraping that the windowand frame outside had only been repainted once since the house was built in the late 50's, and the part between the two panes of glass had never been repainted, and should have been, long ago.
The cats aren't happy with all of this, because we have reinstalled the bedroom door, and are keeping it shut, which means they can't sleep on the bed all day. In otder to install the door it was necessary to take down the wall-mounted paperback bookshelf, which fills the entire space between the doorframe and the built in closet, leaving no room for the door, since the hinges are on the inside. (There is literally no other wall upon which we could have put that bookshelf, nor a room big enough to use the bookshelf as a room divider, as I did at the last house, where it made a walk-in closet space in the bedroom.
Today I need to get the other bedroom window frame scraped and painted, and as many of the windows themselves done as possible. The sooner we finish all the windows, the sooner we can take down that door and let the cats back in. With luck he will get the cat enclosure done soon enough that they can have both the room back, and a new place to play outside all at once, but there is still lots to do, so I don't know how that will work.
* The neighbour house was the orginal house for this neighbourhood, the first home being built in the 1700', the current house in the late 1800's or early 1900's, when that family was involved in the shipping industry, so they had a tower to see when ships were coming in. In those days there wasn't the thin strip of forest blocking the view to the water, which was closer than today as we hadn't rebound as high from glacier melting as we have now, so there was still a harbour at Lövånger.