The Ranger Room

Our second smallest bedroom, we call the Ranger room due to a transparency that was on the wall when we bought the house.  It is a famous quote by Texas Ranger, Captain McDonald, who replied," One riot, one ranger," when asked why there was only one Texas Ranger to stop an illegal prize fight in 1896.  We decided we liked the Texas history component and have left the room the original brown color so we could leave the transparency on the wall.  I did paint the brown ceiling white and also plan to paint the trim white sometime soon.

So we pulled up the carpet, removed the carpet tacks and baseboards, patched the holes and scraped the floor when we spent the week at the house for Christmas.  For this room I have glued down the engineered hardwood, same as the previous bedroom.  I guess I am getting much better at this over time because I was able to finish about 2/3 of the room in one 5 hour session:

(Sorry for the sideways photo but the blog won't let me rotate it!?!)

So I thought it would take no time at all to get the rest of the flooring done.  However, there was a lot of cutting in the closet and along the last wall that ended up taking two more days of work.  Eventually I was able to get the floor laid and the baseboards installed.  I hung the curtains and am in the process of moving in the furniture.

Once we get a new mattress, this room will be ready to occupy!  I have also added some furniture and curtains to the den so it looks even more like a lived in space:

I am not sure what will be our next priority.  Ideally we would start on a bathroom but I need to get my plumber to commit to a schedule since pipes will need to be moved.  Until then I guess I will work on smaller projects.  I have been searching for the right pendant lights to go over the dining table.  I found some I will order but I also need to run the electricity to a second light box.  That means another trip into the attic - ugh!  I have also been trying to figure out how to display our address.  It used to be on the house over the garage but nobody could see it from the road.  So this weekend my husband used his new lawn mower with a pull cart to haul some large rocks around.  The largest one has a pretty flat face so we stood it on end and buried it a little at the foot of the driveway.  I am going to try to clean it very well and glue some numbers to it.  Finally, I have a lead on the stinky water problem.  Apparently Culligan has a system that should be able to get rid of the smell.  That would be a relief!

That's all until next time.