More electrical work

Mark came back today to continue working on the electrical with Matt. We are installing outlets and switches upstairs and generally trying to bring the house into the 20th century. I think my favorite will be the replacement of the pulley system "the engineer" rigged up to allow you to turn on the light upstairs when you are at the bottom of the stairs:

 

Its sort of hard to see in the picture but the wooden rod hanging below the railing actually attaches to the pull for the light upstairs. Its being replaced by a switch on the wall at the bottom of the stairs. I think this was the easiest to fix because they just went through the laundry room (after taking all the paneling off, of course). The little blue box is what they installed.

They also are putting one in the hall upstairs and two (maybe three? they are still working as I type this) in James's room:

It doesn't at all seem like a fun job, but how amazing will it be when we actually have outlets in all the rooms, embedded in the walls. So nice.

As for me, I did some sluthing on amazon and ordered some potential knobs and pulls for the kitchen cabinets (in oiled bronze to match the door knobs we've already purchased), folded laundry, and put the dog run up on craigslist. Hopefully someone will want it, though Matt did seem to have a good time showing it off: