House Progress?

January 2009 has been cold and snowy. I had days off from school so the video tracks the progress in our painting of the living and dining areas of our 1933 Sears house. The floor refinishing was started on Saturday morning and will be totally finished on Tuesday, sand, fill, sand, stain, seal, seal, seal. The large rectangle you will see in the floor is where the "central" heat advertised in the original catalog provided coal heated air to the entire house. It drifted up through registers to heat the second floor. Conversion to a gas furnace had the floor patched, we elected not to try and do anything fancy but simply kept the patch.