Master Bedroom Progress

I spent the weekend scraping windows in the master bedroom and installing the weatherstripping to seal things up for the winter. The new windows look great, they really brighten things up.





Back in the summer I tore out the cracked mortar hearth in the master bedroom fireplace, and cut some antique bricks to lay a new one. here's a photo of the bricks cemented in place, before grouting. The plaster surround in the hearth was crumbling, so we stripped it from the bricks; not sure if we'll clean up the bricks, or reapply plaster to finish it off.....

While we work on the walls and the floor in the master bedroom I am going to have the paint stripping shop dip the fireplace mantle, bedroom door, moulding, and the "cubby" cabinet doors from either side of the fireplace. When I pried the mantle off of the wall a bunch of old cards fell out from behind it... one is a political advertisement from the 1884 presidential election with an image of James G. Blaine. Blaine was the GOP candidate in 1884 against Grover Cleveland.

We're also in the market for about 100 bd. ft. of oak lumber to replace some of the old floorboards that were cracked, or broken during the installation of plumbing, electricity, and radiator piping many years ago. We're going to buy rough lumber and replicate the old boards as closely as we can. eventually we'll refinish the whole floor in the master bedroom, so the difference should be not so noticeable.