My mother and I started to do some work on the rig this weekend. She muchly expanded our to do list. The end result is going to be blog worthy awesomeness at some point, but is only half completed at present.

One project that we did finish were the curtains in the study. Yes, I already had curtains in the study, and lovely ones at that, but only from the inside. They didn’t look finished on the outside and were, according to the US customs official in 2011, a dead giveaway that my rig was a full-time home. So we lined all the curtains with white material to make them look uniform around the rig and moved the rods up higher so that they don’t show from outside, like so:

I wish I’d thought to grab a before pic, but that’s me. 🙂

Next, the hideous, never meant to be permanent, cloth dresser is GONE!!! WOOHOO!!!!!!!!!!!

However, due to a slight and easily fixable, measuring error, I can only show you this teaser of my new wonderful, everything I hoped for, dresser:

I have gone from six huge drawers to nine smaller drawers and I look forward to organizing my clothes this evening. 🙂

We also started to get the filing cabinet secured, a job that surprisingly has my mother stumped.

And I sort of have a new desk! This is one project that I would never have thought I needed done, but which my mother zeroed in on right away because of my the new client I’ve picked up. I’m not sharing an pics of that till the job is completed because the awesomeness of the end result will be diminished by showing an in progress pic. 🙂

We’re short on time, but after finishing all of these projects, we have some major work to do in the living room, including building a wall, a door, and possibly even a closet.

And at some point, we are going to get that new inverter installed. I did some research and discovered that a 1,000W inverter needs really small gauge wiring, ideally no. 2, so that will require making an even bigger hole in my living room floor. Since I’ll be making one hole, I agree with my mother that I might as well make a bunch more and, well, the end result will be awesome.

I just hope we’re as good at finishing projects as we are at planning them. 😀

(I’m off to Gatineau on business tomorrow, so I may not be able to blog again until the end of the week.)