So, remember those bifold doors we turned into little french doors..? I told you about them a couple of weeks ago...? (See here, if you don't remember.) Well, we finally got the knobs, and I think they're lovely. Take a look:
They add the perfect finishing touch to the doors, don't you think..?
What I neglected to tell you in my earlier post is that, while doing the work, we had a little, uh... accident. I forget how it started. In a really silly way, most likely. It was probably one of those "We can't do it - it'll look dumb/ Of course we can do it - fine I'll do it all by myself!!" moments...
And so it was that I found myself wrestling with the bifold, trying to take it down all on my own... And I succeeded - only it landed squarely on the thermostat. Sigh.
Bill quickly put aside our little spat (and suppressed some serious laughter, I'm sure), coming to the rescue since I was caught in one of those I-almost-saved-it-but-didn't-quite-pull-it-off positions, awkwardly holding the door which had caught my ankle at one end and smashed the thermostat at the other. He gently assured me that it wasn't a big deal and helped me untangle myself free from the door, while I just berated myself for being so stubborn. (I think I was probably a little embarrassed, too, not just angry. Heh.)
The one cool thing about this little episode was that when we took the old (really old) thermostat down, we found one of those sweet surprises old houses can give you:
Isn't that tiny bit of vintage wallpaper the sweetest..? I love it when little unexpected things like these happen. Anyway, I debated whether I should take it down and frame it or not, but I decided to leave it with the house, so that it can tell this story again through someone else some day.
So, we covered the little treasure, with Bill doing most of the work, and me getting in his way, trying to document it...
And there you have it. The same exact thermostat, sadly made out of plastic instead of metal...but, oh well. At least it's white, rather than brass. I guess that's an improvement, visually speaking. For me, anyway.
They add the perfect finishing touch to the doors, don't you think..?What I neglected to tell you in my earlier post is that, while doing the work, we had a little, uh... accident. I forget how it started. In a really silly way, most likely. It was probably one of those "We can't do it - it'll look dumb/ Of course we can do it - fine I'll do it all by myself!!" moments...And so it was that I found myself wrestling with the bifold, trying to take it down all on my own... And I succeeded - only it landed squarely on the thermostat. Sigh.
Bill quickly put aside our little spat (and suppressed some serious laughter, I'm sure), coming to the rescue since I was caught in one of those I-almost-saved-it-but-didn't-quite-pull-it-off positions, awkwardly holding the door which had caught my ankle at one end and smashed the thermostat at the other. He gently assured me that it wasn't a big deal and helped me untangle myself free from the door, while I just berated myself for being so stubborn. (I think I was probably a little embarrassed, too, not just angry. Heh.)
The one cool thing about this little episode was that when we took the old (really old) thermostat down, we found one of those sweet surprises old houses can give you:
Isn't that tiny bit of vintage wallpaper the sweetest..? I love it when little unexpected things like these happen. Anyway, I debated whether I should take it down and frame it or not, but I decided to leave it with the house, so that it can tell this story again through someone else some day.So, we covered the little treasure, with Bill doing most of the work, and me getting in his way, trying to document it...
And there you have it. The same exact thermostat, sadly made out of plastic instead of metal...but, oh well. At least it's white, rather than brass. I guess that's an improvement, visually speaking. For me, anyway.