Although I’ve taken the last two weeks off of work to spend time with Abra­ham, I’ve also been doing [and hav­ing done] a lot of work on the house. I’ve been work­ing on the room that you enter from the front door. For lack of a bet­ter term, I call it the par­lor. Here are some pho­tos:
Before:

After:

Before:

After:

I painted, put down quarter-​round, replaced a pane in the doors to the bed­room, and painted those too. The plas­ter needed some seri­ous patch­ing but that was done awhile ago. I’m hav­ing quite a bit of con­tracted work done on the bath­room and get­ting a closet expanded. One of the small rooms is dis­ap­pear­ing to make this hap­pen, but it is cer­tainly worth it. Dur­ing this process we’ve found some painted-​over hand-​made fix­ture gems. Here are some hinges:
Stripped of their paint [and orig­i­nal black enamel, unfor­tu­nately]:

And restored [thanks to Rus­toleum]:

The win­dow sashes have sim­i­lar paint-​encrusted met­al­work, and I’m still work­ing on restor­ing the orig­i­nal door­bell [you can see the paint-​encrusted ver­sion and the empty spot in the pho­tos above]. The door itself is prob­a­bly going to take a week or two of work itself. I’m not look­ing for­ward on the con­stant remov­ing and rehang­ing of it.

There will be pic­tures of the bath­room and closet when they are finished.