A few cosmetic improvements

A new Coat Rack:

We solved the coats on the bed problem finally with our driftwood-random coat rack. Hooks include drawer knobs, bits of driftwood, old hooks from the salvage yard and some new hooks too. The coat rack itself is made of a bit of driftwood picked up at Lyall Bay. The biggest challenge was screwing it into the wall: we had to make recessed holes as the wood is wider than our screws are long.

But doesn't it look cool!

And in my other piece of cosmetic mastery, I started cleaning a mark off the yellow "stained glass" window half way down the hall and discovered it wasn't stained yellow glass after all. Well, it was stained - stained with 120 years of cigarette smoke and grime.

Here's what it looked like to start with. The paler panels are where I was cleaning a stain off and discovered it was a bit more stained than I'd originally thought...

And here's the before and after shots....

That's about 4 hours worth of scrubbing to get it back to its original state... but I think it looks great.

Next up: Steve's home made double glazing. Watch this space.