We closed on the house on the 15th of December. The week leading up to it as well as pretty much every day thereafter have been full of house-related activity. Because of this,  Christmas and all of its accouterments was  the farthest thing from our minds. Yes, we are bad people.

As the bad Christmas people that we are, this has turned out to be quite a great week, as far as unexpected gifts go:

Beautiful (and free) French doors for the Garden apartment

The view through the ceiling of the original dumb waiter pulley system still in our attic. Always fun to discover something unique about the house (more on this in a later post)

A test to see if we can strip the pain off the original wood floors. Yes we can!