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Monthly Archives: April 2013

Almost finished…

21 Sunday Apr 2013

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Throughout the day, I kept coming back to the nursery floor boards.

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Measuring…cutting…staining…gluing…

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…each and every board…

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…until I almost got to the end of the room…

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Not quite finished….but almost…

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And with the ceiling laid on top…

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…I think it will make a rather cheerful and cozy nursery.

Good night.

 

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More progress

19 Friday Apr 2013

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More of the same tonight…

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Little by little…board by board…

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I think I might be around the halfway point…or almost…

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Still the other half to go…maybe by the end of the weekend it’ll be done.

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But for now…good night.

 

 

Still more floorboards

18 Thursday Apr 2013

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Back to the floorboards tonight. Went from here…

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…to here.

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I’ll get it finished, eventually, but it sure is slow progress…

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Good night!

More floorboards

17 Wednesday Apr 2013

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So I’m back to working on the floorboards again.

Started like this…

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Then some slow, meticulous work…

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….to end up…

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…here.

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Still a long way to go.

For now, goodnight.

 

Making progress

12 Friday Apr 2013

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Went back to work on the nursery floor tonight.

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The plan this time was to be as careful as possible when cutting and aligning all the pieces…

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Got one of the corners started, and I’m pretty pleased with the result…

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I’ll work more on it after the weekend.

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Good night.

 

Moving backwards

09 Tuesday Apr 2013

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Went back to the nursery floor and realized I would need to pull up more of the floor boards (and repaint the sub-floor black) in order to fix the alignment problems…

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Drew the design lines and noticed that more of the floor boards were off-kilter…

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…so I pulled those up, too.

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Drew a grid as the base of the pattern and found out all the boards would need to go…

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…so I decided to start fresh from the beginning.

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And so I began with a grid in the corner and built from there…

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Hopefully it will work better this time…sorry I have no real progress to show in this post. Mostly regression, really.

Good night.

Tearing up the floorboards

08 Monday Apr 2013

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Just a quick post tonight…started tearing up the floorboards that were off-kilter in the nursery.

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Which tore up most of the black paint under them…so I repainted that part of the floor.

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I think next time I’ll start by drawing the pattern on the sub-floor and then I’ll try being a lot more careful when measuring and cutting the wood slats as well as when I line them up and glue them in.

But for now…good night.

House assessment

06 Saturday Apr 2013

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Thought I’d take a few minutes to step back and see where I was with the house.

So here’s a 360 degree view of what I have so far in proportion to the room around it (everyone who has seen it in real life has commented on how small it looks compared to the blog photos):

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This is where the rest of the house will be hooked up (dining room on the left, back stairs and food pantry on the right, upstairs hallway on top). The nursery will, of course, have another wall to finish it off.

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This is where you can really see how the downstairs floor is angled inward and where I had to add slivers of wood to make the second floor level. Luckily the back siding will cover all this and you won’t be able to tell.

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Compared with where it was two months ago (https://cider12.wordpress.com/2013/02/07/second-floor-walls/), I feel like I’ve been chugging along pretty well, in spite of a busy work schedule and several trips to Philly.

Now to finish the nursery (it’s still missing a wall, the floor boards, the base boards, the wallpaper trim, and a ceiling) and then I can get to work on the back siding and the rooftop for this section…

Good day!

Upstairs hallway finished

06 Saturday Apr 2013

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Did the last bits of the hallway tonight.

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Created the final wall, printed the paper for it, and cut out the wainscoting and trim.

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Took a little time on the side to create an old box of soap (based on a photo I found online) for the scullery.

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Stained the pieces for the wainscoting and glued them on the wall.

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Propped the final wall in place and took a slightly blurry photo from above the hallway…

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This is basically the view of the back hallway that will be seen from the other end of a long hallway that will stretch to the front of the house.

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Next I cut out a new ceiling (the original one didn’t fit correctly anymore) and gave it several coats of paint.

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Glued it in…

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…and took a few photos of what the hallway looked like through the doorways of the surrounding rooms.

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On to the nursery next…but for now, good night.

Hallway wainscoting

04 Thursday Apr 2013

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More work on the hallway tonight…decided I liked the wainscoting after all.

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The pattern is made of several pieces, all of which needed measuring, cutting, staining and gluing…

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Had to become a bit creative on the corner piece, as well as with the right-hand wall, so it would fit right…

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Added a few details, like a lamp…

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…and the doorknob on the nursery door…and then I laid the ceiling on top.

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Now this is the funny part–or maybe the part where you’ll think I’m a  little nuts–tomorrow, before I glue the ceiling on permanently, I need to make the final wall for the hallway…which is going to cover up almost all of this except the top of the stairs.

So no one is ever going to see this corner of the hallway…except by peeping around corners through open doors…

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Yeah….just a little on the crazy side…but then, if I hadn’t finished it perfectly–even if nobody ever saw it–I would still KNOW it wasn’t finished…and it would bug me forever.

Good night.

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