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To be honest, the loftice has been done for quite a few weeks now. I fell asleep at the blog wheel.

The final polish was done just in time for Alice to start working from home and for me to get fed up with commuting to a lonely downtown office. We have a theory that our new pleasant home office is all that’s keeping us civil as we sit in the same room all day.

The final bits were ornamental. Alice, painting super star, took care of the bedroom door and the banister. Bringing a whole bunch of fabric into the room was the final touch . The windows are pretty straight forward but the closet and the drapes which close off the loftice deserve some attention.

We bought a system from Ikea (DEKA. No, of course you can’t order it online — Ikea is Swedish for “etailing luddite”) that lets one attach mounts and run taught wires to hang drapes from. The drapes hang from clips with rings that slip over the wire. In the closet the wire runs just behind a bit of trim that drops down from the front of the closet. It’s mostly out of sight. The wire for the curtains that separate the room follows the contour of the roof. When shut the curtains form a wall with a few inches separating it from the ceiling.

The result is visually simple and appealing and the drapes slide along the wire with surprising ease. It’s especially nice to not have to fight with the wooden folding doors that were originally installed in the closet. I was convinced that their track was primarily designed to induce uncontrollable fits of rage. That it could kind of guide the motion of the doors seemed to be an afterthought.

Anyway, all this means that our friends from far afield have to come visit. When’s the last time any of you got to slide your privacy drape closed after wishing your hosts good night?