Our (nearly) Priceless Wet Bar

What do a media room and library lounge typically lack?  A wet bar, of course.  To remedy this often oversight, we installed one.  What American can be bothered with a flight of stairs for a soda?  Not many.  In order to embrace the lazy American stereotype, we worked for months.  Unfortunately, our attempts to become slothful have utterly failed.  We must try harder to be idle!

-          Craigslist Cabinet: $50

-          Craigslist Stainless Steel Sink: $30

-          Rust-o-leum “Heirloom White” Spray-paint:  $5.32

-          Glulam bean:  $10/ft at Lowes = $60

-          Sikkens Wood Stain & Finish: free from the lovely Lamberts!

-          Craigslist Stainless Steel Mini-Fridge: $50

-          Hours of our weekend labor: $1,000,000 (We pay ourselves well, but the check is in the mail…)

-          A refreshing upstairs snack: priceless (actually $1,000,195.32)

Singing in the Rain

Walking into our bathroom was accompanied with an Alfred Hitchcock soundtrack when I first moved in to the Blueberry.  No amount of disinfectant or air freshening would rid this room of its creepy vibe. I could almost see the germs smirking at me from cracks in the poorly installed bathtub. Showering at the gym seemed the lesser of two evils.  We eventually gave up using it as a bathroom, and it became a makeshift laundry room instead.  Two years later, Clint worked his remodeling magic.  After gutting it, he redesigned the layout.  Clint installed the tub against the far wall, providing width to the room and opening up the space.

Now, instead of Hitchcock, we hear the chipper steps of Gene Kelly—dancing in the rain of our room. 

Led Zeppelin Steps

They must have had our house in mind when writing their climbing lyrics. Our original 1914 home had a second floor (rafters in the attic) only accessible by a rickety pull down ladder.  Clint fell through this hatch while working upstairs, and we then realized that permanent stairs were needed.  After months of geometric carpentry, the stairs were complete!  I polished them off with a few coats of paint.  We pieced together the railing from Second Use, a vintage salvage shop in Seattle.  What will you find upstairs? Page, Bonham, Plant, and Jones rocking 80s hits…on Guitar Hero.