Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year

Hope you all had a Merry Christmas, a Happy Hanukkah and a great New Year.  I am a little under the weather with a cold, can't believe Mike hasn't gotten it yet.  Since I am a little slow getting around thought I would post some more pictures.

For my decorating friends this is our Christmas tree in our Maryland house this year.  With the house still up for sale the realtor wouldn't let me do too much.  Usually for Christmas I decorate everything I can :) 

Mike has done more work to our home in Bedford, Pa.  These are pictures of the coal room in the basement.  In 1925 they used coal to heat the house.  A truck would pull up and send coal down a small opening on the side of the house into a slanted or V shaped room in the basement.

This is what the room looked like.  Very creepy.  I just know something large

 is living and lurking around in it.

This is the door to the room.  Doesn't it look like something or someone was trying to get out?!!!

Mike cleaned out the room really good.  Built this shelf into the v-shaped part of the room, dry walled two walls,  built tall shelving on those two walls, painted the floor and finally fixed and painted the door.

Didn't that chewed up door come out nice?!!  Now Mike has lots of storage for his wood working supplies. .....and I don't mind opening that door so much (but I still don't want to be down there by myself.)
We have a name for the room but that is a secret for now.  Won't be able to divulge that info until the summer.