Sweet Home Delta Gamma: Rain, Rain, Go Away

It was a rainy, dreary day, and so the only work completed today was in the interior. Demolition continued on the dining room (left) and the existing flooring, which revealed amazing hardwood floors (darker than the ones upstairs) in the formal and card room. If you ask me, they look really cool with the black wall paint.

I know I keep harping on and on about the hardwoods, but I absolutely love them. As for restoring them, it simply isn't practical. Let me tell you, I've been living here while construction workers have been walking around upstairs, and I can hear every single step throughout the house (every... single... step...). Carpet helps with the noise and will be much warmer in the winter.

View of formal from the foyer. (That's plaster dust covering the piano and floors - and every, single corner of the house.)

Card room (and dining room in the background).

One could say that the theme of the last several days has been "revelation." That is, every time something is demolished, what's underneath (whether it be different flooring, old paint, electrical & plumbing systems, etc.) is revealed. Today, two closets in the hallway to the House Director's apartment (a utility closet and the silver closet) were torn down. At that time, a mysterious locked box was found behind a picture hanging on the wall. My hopes that it would turn out to be a previous house mom's wall safe (full of cash and diamonds, of course!) or a DG time capsule were ruined when opening it up revealed an ancient fire alarm system. Not as fun as jewelry, but interesting nevertheless. :)

Ex-closets in the hallway to the House Mom's apartment (near the door to the basement, which is no longer on it's hinges).

Ancient fire alarm system (not diamonds). The hand-written note taped underneath the buzzer reads "Do not push this button unless there is a fire."

For those of you that read yesterday's post about the fire sprinkler system's water line that runs from the city line into the house, here's an exterior shot of that work, as well as an interior shot in the basement of where the new lines end up.