This used to be our TV room, and is now our guest room. Color: adobe dust.

There's supposed to be a sleeper sofa in here, but it was delivered last Sunday and they couldn't fit it through the doorway. So it's empty at the moment.

Looks like that ceiling is all jacked up.

Here's the hallway that links all of the second-floor rooms. It's a key lime pie green, albeit a shade or two lighter. We just put in the track lights, which are quite cool in my opinion.

The photos are our ancestor wall. We started with our wedding photo in the middle of the wall and then started adding photos of direct ancestors in all directions. The longest unbroken string is six generations, from me to two of my great-great-great grandfathers.

Dear lord, don't say anything to my wife or I'll have to move all that furniture out again.

Okay, and now down to the first floor. Here's the view if you look straight in from the front door. We had to take the staircase completely apart about 7 years ago to remove the paint from it. Every piece of wood on the first floor was painted other than the floor and the stair pads. We've brought it all back to wood.

We found the Egyptian guy at an antique store. We've named him Roy, the God of Commerce.

Uh-oh. The wife wants to shut down the office and go home. There's a blizzard here, and nothing's going on.

Thirty minute commute-through-the-blizzard break, and then I'll continue posting the rest of the first floor.

Its been 30 minutes. I wonder if Kevin is still alive?

Okay, the blizzard break is over. Here's our living room as viewed from the front door.

And here's the living room viewed toward the front door (which is to the left). You can see in the upper left an unusual design feature: the room above the entryway is partially cantilevered. There's no support for the back corner of it. The structural engineer on one of the remodel projects found that quite interesting.

At one point in the house's history when stained-glass wasn't popular, someone actually drywalled over the stained-glass window at the foot of the stairs. We had to have new framing made for it.

I have a burnt-out light in the foyer. Darn it.

The front wall of the living room, just so people know that we do have a couch.

And now we head into the dining room. Here's the view from the living room. The new chandelier, which is quite bitchin', is seen. It's not really gold - it's a bright, bright white, but I've got the dimmer on in this picture to keep it from messing up the photo.

I've always wanted one of those little rooms under the stairs. Must be very convenient for storing runaways.

Here's another view with the light cranked up.

It's a good short-term solution. Long-term, I use the old photographic dark room in the basement.

Rain Man's house sort of reminds me of Myst.