The main room on the second floor is the new TV room, formerly the master bedroom. Here's the view facing west, toward the front of the house. (This room is actually on the back of the house.)

Exactly.

I'm working my way down the stairs.

Here's a view the other way. This room was once two rooms, a bedroom and maid's quarters, so it's pretty good-sized.

Are your legs really that short? OR are your pants folded up? Sorry, I'll try to stay focused. More pics please.

At some point, we'll do the big-screen TV in this room, but I'm in no hurry at the moment.

Here's some art in the back of the room, a painting by a fun local artist and a symbolic representation of our cats leaping onto their cat tree.

I usually go with knickers.

Here's the main bathroom. I love this sink. Love it. The lights are reproduction antiques, and tub (not shown) is an actual antique that we bought for the house.

Hot damn...I wonder if I'll get to 500 posts before January? When I signed up for the Chiefs Planet, I made myself promise that I wouldn't be a post whore. I'm starting to wonder now.

You had a maid?

Someone had a maid. I have cats.

Now we're talking. That's a nice bathroom. I like the built-in shelves and the elevated sink thingy.

Here's a peek into my home office, which isn't yet completely unpacked. Any time I go overseas, I put a photo from the trip up on that ring of photos near the ceiling. (In one case, I count Texas as a foreign country, though.) The walls are Stuart Gold, as befits my dignity.

Do you love the sink for its functionality or its appearance? I like the way those sinks look, but I didn't know if I'd like to use one like that.

The shelves and whole sink area were once parts of two closet, but the shelf area was an odd small walk-in closet with a door that opened in, so you couldn't put anything in it. We tore it out and put the sink back there, and after a lot of puzzling about what to do about the area next to the chimney, we discovered that shelves would work perfectly.

It's actually pretty nice to use, but the only problem is that you have to have a tall faucet to make it work. The faucet we bought is actually a kitchen faucet, and since it swivels, you can actually swivel it too far and start letting water flow directly onto the countertop. As adults, we don't really have a problem with that, but it could be a disaster with kids.

The sink is durable, too. We bought it about 7 years ago when it was one of the first of its kind on the market, and it looks just as good today as when we bought it.