Sun room door

The door from the sun room to the upper patio is not original to the house.  The sun room was enclosed and winterized later, probably in the 1980s.  It might have been a screen porch before then, but I think it's more likely that it was a covered patio.

The door region looks a lot like your standard double sliding glass door.

But it is so much better.

Painted room

The painted room is all painted.  The floor is in.  It looks absolutely gorgeous in there.

The light balance is a little off on my phone, but the color is Behr's Tahitian Sky:

The ceiling is still (sorta) white.  It looks a lot beiger now that the walls are beautiful.  Speaking of walls, the new dividing wall between the MBR and the Painted room is complete.  You can just see the top of it in this shot  (or not: look how well it blends in to the rest of the wall).

What kind of plant is this?

The sellers left us a lot of potted plants, mostly outside on the upper patio but also scattered about the lower patio, driveway, and dining room.

Who abandons their plants like this?

Most of them are mysteries to me.  We have a house rule that all plants that come indoors must be non-toxic and hard to kill.  Otherwise they live (and probably die) outside.  So it's pretty important that we figure out what these are and re-home them if they will be problems.

What is this?

Bedroom separation

The master bedroom and the painted bedroom are conjoined.  Some previous owner cut a hole in the wall between them and made a "sitting room" appendage to the MBR.  

We are separating them again.

View from painted room into MBR.

That's 2x6 framing, not 2x4.  Luckily the hole is only 8' high, so we don't need to build a very tall wall.  

Thermostat

There are three thermostats in the house.  One controls the bedrooms.  One controls the living/dining/kitchen, library, and sun room.  The last is not connected to anything and just looks cool (I think).  I don't know what controls the artists' studio and rumpus room, but it's probably the same as the bedrooms.

Disconnected, I think.  Probably also original.

The bedroom thermostat is in the paneled kid bedroom, which will belong to the boy.  The boy, being 4, LOVES to push buttons.  We don't want him to control the climate.

The boy and the puppy

The boy and I went over to the house to check on the floors.  The boy commandeered the camera, so here are some lovely shots of the ceiling.

In the upper/left one, you can see the upper part of the wall of glass. If you squint, you notice that there are two panes of glass here, stacked vertically.  There's a large rectangle, and then some smaller ones up in the rafter spines.  The divider is just a fine grey line.  The roof pitch is symmetric left to right; it only looks asymmetric because the photographer made an artistic choice.

Upstairs public floors

Under the carpet in the living room, dining room, upstairs hall, and library, we found some very special tile.

Living room.

Check out the single missing red tile 4' in front of the fire place.  Why is that one white?