Oh, and if anyone's wondering...
Nov. 19th, 2002 09:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
solarbird...I have still been working on the house. No pictures, though. Maybe tomorrow. ^_^
The downstairs rear hallway - the one tying the two haves of Point Eight together - was the first project we started when we moved into the house. The very first. It's the hallway where Chris and I put in the hardwood floor earlier this year.
It's still not done.
Many other, larger projects have been started and completed since then. It's just incredibly stupid this one has dragged on so long. There have been many different (and stupid!) reasons for it.
However! I finally have trimmed out the ENTIRE HALLWAY. ALL TRIM IS HUNG. Four doorways, mutiple weird custom-cuts and fill pieces, baseboard trim, bizzaro "Why does the wallboard end spontaniously here?" hiding pieces (you'd have to see it to understand), working with a mix of recovered and new wood. It's been crazy-making - I'll work three hours and get done with one doorframe.
I'm actually having to make a bunch of of this trim. Not "buy it and put it up." Make it. From planks. A router is involved, along with a table saw, a manual mitre saw (cutting angles like 86 degrees, and 12 degrees, and all that kind of crap because NOTHING IS STRAIGHT IN THIS HOUSE), and more sanding than I want to talk about.
Ptui.
Of course, somebody who knew what the hell she was doing could probably wrap it up in a day. But, well, that's not me. ^_^
What's left now: One piece of ornamental wood, building a lightbox ceiling, a little staining, and a bunch of priming and painting. The lightbox ceiling is going to be another neat trick because once again I'm doing something I've never done before. (I am such an idiot.) It wouldn't be as difficult except I've decided (RIGHTLY) that it needs to, um...
...slant.
It needs to slant. It needs to have a slope. It can't just be level. It wouldn't work.
If you were here, you'd understand why.
Guh. This is going to be the weirdest hallway ever.
I have to say in my own defense, though, that it really is starting to look pretty spiff. ^_^
The downstairs rear hallway - the one tying the two haves of Point Eight together - was the first project we started when we moved into the house. The very first. It's the hallway where Chris and I put in the hardwood floor earlier this year.
It's still not done.
Many other, larger projects have been started and completed since then. It's just incredibly stupid this one has dragged on so long. There have been many different (and stupid!) reasons for it.
However! I finally have trimmed out the ENTIRE HALLWAY. ALL TRIM IS HUNG. Four doorways, mutiple weird custom-cuts and fill pieces, baseboard trim, bizzaro "Why does the wallboard end spontaniously here?" hiding pieces (you'd have to see it to understand), working with a mix of recovered and new wood. It's been crazy-making - I'll work three hours and get done with one doorframe.
I'm actually having to make a bunch of of this trim. Not "buy it and put it up." Make it. From planks. A router is involved, along with a table saw, a manual mitre saw (cutting angles like 86 degrees, and 12 degrees, and all that kind of crap because NOTHING IS STRAIGHT IN THIS HOUSE), and more sanding than I want to talk about.
Ptui.
Of course, somebody who knew what the hell she was doing could probably wrap it up in a day. But, well, that's not me. ^_^
What's left now: One piece of ornamental wood, building a lightbox ceiling, a little staining, and a bunch of priming and painting. The lightbox ceiling is going to be another neat trick because once again I'm doing something I've never done before. (I am such an idiot.) It wouldn't be as difficult except I've decided (RIGHTLY) that it needs to, um...
...slant.
It needs to slant. It needs to have a slope. It can't just be level. It wouldn't work.
If you were here, you'd understand why.
Guh. This is going to be the weirdest hallway ever.
I have to say in my own defense, though, that it really is starting to look pretty spiff. ^_^
