Item 2 on the agenda for the weekend, following submittal of the fling-flarn grad school application, was buckling down and addressing the trim in the bathroom and kitchen. I am pleased to report that progress was reasonably decent:
I got the door pretty much trimmed out on Saturday; this side worked out nicely. On the other side, I had to do an emergency run to the home improvement emporium for a 1x3...when we were installing the switches, we, um, put the light switch inside the bathroom, um, a little too close to the door frame.
Same wall from the other direction, after I had tried out some wood filler to see about the gap between the beadboard panel and the chair rail, but before I discovered that white paint makes it invisible anyway. So I have a little sanding to do now...
By 8:30 or so last night, I'd finished the beadboard and chair rail all the way around to the door...I wanted to get the baseboard down and the floor in too, but there are only so many hours in the day and I only have so much sanity to lose making miter cuts, even with my fabulous compound miter saw (the saw is fine. The brain that has to remember which way to cut chair rail with a different top-to-bottom profile on inside and outside angles? Not so much).
What amuses me is the difference in how the paint looks with a flash and without. In real life, it's way less disco than this:
See (when you look at that photo you can also see the 1x3 trimming the door, if you care...)?
Ew. That must have been before I dusted the walls, too--the brown dust from cutting the panels is now everywhere, making a lovely two-tone effect with the bright white dust from the drywall sanding.
So. Boring. Sorry. But I'm excited.
Beautiful! Looking great, Ren!
Posted by: the idiot | November 03, 2009 at 08:53 AM