Fire, dirt and Rabbit Holes

Update coming soon - we've had fun with fires, levelling the back yard and completely stripping the interior of the back of the house. Time to start the blog up again methinks .............

Holy Levitating Tree Batman!

What’s going on here then?
When we bought the house it had two ficus trees planted out the front. Both were shaped very nicely into a “lollipop” style that did absolutely nothing for the house. There only redeeming feature was that they hid the house from the street. It was yellow after all.



Once we removed the paint from the brick and had the house painted it was time to remove the trees. Perry, Todd and Nate from “Palm Tree Cut” came over and made short work of them…..

Crane Truck:


Chopping tree off at ground height


Free


Airborne:


Bye Bye Tree:


Now that the trees are gone the front of the house has a lot more exposure…..






Gratuitous shot of my new toy:

Progress

Figured we should post an update. The Living room and dining room are basically done. Both rooms have been stripped to the studs, rewired and insulated and then received new floors, walls and ceilings.





The China Buffet was a salvage find.







AK has been wanting to learn the piano for a while. We looked around and found a 1908 Melville Clark Player piano. The player mechanism is toast, but after a cash infusion the piano is playable and sounding good.





Here is a reminder of what we started with.
Dining Room:


Living Room:


China Buffet:


The china buffet will eventually recess fully into the wall. Currently the other side of the wall is supporting our kitchen cabinets. We’ll leave the buffet as a free standing unit until we redo the kitchen.

You may have noticed the “toy” cars sitting on the buffet. They’re models from the 40’s and 50’s called tether cars – the precursor for today’s slot cars and radio control models. Here is a closer view of a 1940’s Dooling “Frog”. The small motor in front is a 40’s era .60cu in Hornet.



I’m not sure what it is, but I really do like these. I first came across them a couple of years ago and now try and keep an eye out for them whenever I’m at a swap meet.