Endless Hallway Project.
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solarbirdOkay, so I promised some pictures...
The first picture is actually of work done a few days ago, in finally building out the doorframe around the door leading to the kitchen. For once, this is a problem I made, rather than somebody else. But I've patched it up now.
The decorative board you can see in this picture will only be half visible by the time things are done, at least from this side. I needed something to be the level-transition between the two unrelated heights of ceiling. (Thanks, Mr. Fixit, Or whoever did this incredibly stupid thing.) Note the joist-to-nowhere sticking out midway across the top of the decorative board. I was able to come up with a way - hidden in this picture - of supporting the ceiling without reconnecting that joist, which is actually good because making a connection would have been difficult.
Picture three shows the edge framing for what will be a ceiling lightbox. That will form the visible ceiling of the finished hallway. The original ceiling is above those pipes, which are, of course, incredibly hideous. Finally, picture four shows more of the lightbox wood, and how it interfaces with the decorative board. Note also the strip going up along the edge of the wallboard on the left side of the picture. Almost all of the trim you see here is made up of stuff I've made out of basic lumber, or of recoverable bits from the original trim. The interfacing between the lightbox ceiling frame and the vertical beam (which protects the edge of that wallboard) is one of far too many weird cuts I've had to learn how to make. I made that one with the table saw. ^_^ Oh, you can also see how the lightbox will slope - that isn't camera lens distortion, that's a significant pitch. I had to do that because the right edge of the lightbox has to be above the bathroom's doorframe, which is inexplicably REALLY TALL. Add in the pipe problem, and, well, there you go.
And that decorative board and the lightbox frame going all around the hallway took me over three hours. I wasn't even wasting time, even. I was being careful, but ... well, I guess the thing that makes up for it is that I can really say that it all fits together pretty well. I think it's going to look really good when it's all done. ^_^
The first picture is actually of work done a few days ago, in finally building out the doorframe around the door leading to the kitchen. For once, this is a problem I made, rather than somebody else. But I've patched it up now.
The decorative board you can see in this picture will only be half visible by the time things are done, at least from this side. I needed something to be the level-transition between the two unrelated heights of ceiling. (Thanks, Mr. Fixit, Or whoever did this incredibly stupid thing.) Note the joist-to-nowhere sticking out midway across the top of the decorative board. I was able to come up with a way - hidden in this picture - of supporting the ceiling without reconnecting that joist, which is actually good because making a connection would have been difficult.
Picture three shows the edge framing for what will be a ceiling lightbox. That will form the visible ceiling of the finished hallway. The original ceiling is above those pipes, which are, of course, incredibly hideous. Finally, picture four shows more of the lightbox wood, and how it interfaces with the decorative board. Note also the strip going up along the edge of the wallboard on the left side of the picture. Almost all of the trim you see here is made up of stuff I've made out of basic lumber, or of recoverable bits from the original trim. The interfacing between the lightbox ceiling frame and the vertical beam (which protects the edge of that wallboard) is one of far too many weird cuts I've had to learn how to make. I made that one with the table saw. ^_^ Oh, you can also see how the lightbox will slope - that isn't camera lens distortion, that's a significant pitch. I had to do that because the right edge of the lightbox has to be above the bathroom's doorframe, which is inexplicably REALLY TALL. Add in the pipe problem, and, well, there you go.
And that decorative board and the lightbox frame going all around the hallway took me over three hours. I wasn't even wasting time, even. I was being careful, but ... well, I guess the thing that makes up for it is that I can really say that it all fits together pretty well. I think it's going to look really good when it's all done. ^_^
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Date: 2002-11-26 01:44 pm (UTC)