French apartment renovations, Day 651: Car day

I was in the car for something like 3.5 hours today! Very strange given our normal pedestrian lifestyle. But I had several items to pick up from the online classifieds: a daybed waaaay up in the hills of Nice, a marble-topped dresser past Antibes, and of course Dio to drop off and pick up north of Nice.

The finish on the mezzanine didn't look nearly as nice as the finish we just applied on the downstairs, probably due to using an old can of finish upstairs vs. a new can of finish downstairs. So we decided to put one more coat on the mezzanine. We did the bathroom side today and will do the bedroom size tomorrow. Eric said, "Are you really sure we need to do this?" My answer was an emphatic yes. Do it now while there's nothing on the floors. It won't take very long and it will look so much better.

We got one staircase stringer cut today after much calculating and measuring and head-scratching and template making. Another one to cut and fit tomorrow. Then we have to mark the treads, build a router template, and rout all of the grooves for the treads. No big deal, right? At least we've done this once before for Le Catamaran.

Ivy helped me make an enormous batch of birthday cakes and cupcakes with 14 eggs and 1 kg of butter. It made 6 cakes and about 10 cupcakes. She wants a triple tiered cake, each later with 2 cakes.