With no rain respite, we’re focusing on flooring. Having finished our all-purpose room and living room, we continued around the corner …
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Tag Archives: hallway
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turning the corner
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laundry nook
Most later Eichlers have laundry rooms. Not ours –we have a small ‘nook’ instead, sandwiched between back door and guest bath. And it’s tight in here …
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uncorked
Our Eichler originally had cork flooring. We knew this already, then revealed ‘Exhibit A’ by removing a bookcase last year –with the ugly bookcase gone, we gained its cork footprint …
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the corridor
I need to catch you up on some indoor projects. Let’s start with (you guessed it) the corridor. Remember our floorplan? Picture the street running along the bottom …
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master hallway
Our closet doors were painted long ago, obscuring the original grasscloth. I’d love to reinstate this, but Karen wants a cleaner look. We repainted our guest room closet, but those door panels had already been re-covered, so provided a smooth surface. Different story in our master, where the painted grasscloth is rough and brittle. We …
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the bookcase
The bookcase on the right was added by the original owners, a long time ago. This pic is when we just moved in, as I didn’t take a ‘before’ shot for this post. Anyway, while useful, it interrupts the flow, conflicts with the design, and narrows the space by our entrance. It had to go. …
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