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Was out of town last week until Friday, came home and the drywall guy had finished, he is really awesome, started on Monday, finished on Thursday. That's pretty much how he works.

Then on Saturday I cleaned everything up, put down the plastic, and Sunday my son, Kimberly and myself painted two coats of primer on everything but the trim (including the ceiling, what a PITA).

Going to paint the ceiling this week and maybe get some color on the walls next weekend, then we'll have the floor redone.

I've just set it up for before/during/after pics.

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PaulW

The drywall in the front hallway was finished a few weeks ago, got these really cool sconces.....

Above the door is where a pencil beam will shine down between the two lights where we will hang a piece of art.....

A gallon of primer on:

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Here's what it use to look like:

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This is where the pencil beam will be, like the new door bell???


Old:

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I took out the wood burning stove, talk about a real PITA!!!! It was sitting on a 48" x 48" x 1" piece of marble from a building facad....then the base had tons of cement in it, and I took out the smoke stack and patched the roof, it was a stainless steel zero clearance smoke stack above the living room.

I started taking all the chair rail off, the room looks sooo much better, I will be removing the crown molding and the base molding. Nothing will be replacing the crown molding, it's going to be turned into a rectangular space.

See the wood burning stove on the right? I took it out....

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And what it looks like now.....the entertainment center will be built in from floor to ceiling between the fire place and the picture window.

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PaulW

Getting ready to paint the squares.......how will it turn out?

Oh, it only took about five hours to do this!

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The pictures don't capture as good as it looks....it is really stunning. The colors are all so warm and inviting.....you have to remember the room is 30' x 13'

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PaulW

I was going to hire a carpenter to make some radiator covers and built ins for the living room, but it was expensive!

I purchased a few new tools, a biscuit joiner ($84), a good circular saw ($59), and a new compressor with three nail guns....$299 at Sears with Craftsman Club discount...what a deal!! The thing is absolutely awesome.

I already have a 12" chop saw and a 10" table saw.....the sander was absolutely necessary for this job.

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To get my skills down and see if I could make something decent, I made my first radiator cover for Kimberly's office, there was no cover when we moved in probably because of the close door clearance....so I had to make a turn.....have a 3/4" birch top for it, just have to shape the turn into it and biscuit joint it together.....then sand and stain.

All in all, probably have 15 hours into it at this point. Probably have another 4 to go. Saved me about $400 in labor.

The biscuit joiner rocks!

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PaulW

Okay, I learned a few things for the living room built ins that I will be making....

1. Don't use any plywood, you can easily sand through the vener with a power sander (see if you can find that in the pictures)

2. Use lots of clamps everywhere to keep the glued joints tight! Don't want any gaps....will have to get more clamps.

It looks, really, really nice. The flash was on, but you really can't see the radiator with the cover installed. Also nice that any flaws are on the side or back, so nobody will ever see them.

I will stain it most likely the same color brown as the two filing cambinets on the left of the bookcase.



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PaulW

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There are no sides or finish on the new maple window sill/radiator cover....

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And Kimberly's new office door, just hung today (first door I ever hung, but I am hung!).....maple of course.....with custom jam extension by yours truly....

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First you special order a door.....maple with a poplar jam.....then you find out you have very screwed up walls so you need to build a jam extenion.....then you hang it, trim it, finish it, nail the trim up and it looks AWESOME!

Let's see:

1 hour to spec and order the door
3 hours on jam extension
2 hours to hang door (first time I did it)
1 hour to cut trim (left side is totally custom made)
3 hours to prep and polyurathane the door and trim
1 hour to put trim up, install door and hardware again, clean up

Total: about 9 hours....but it is STUNNING!!!

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I bought Kimberly a sewing machine in the spring because we knew we wanted some custom drapes....

She pulled it out a few weeks ago, we bought material, and she put together the first drape....she just needs to hem the bottom.

The finish width is 104", but it goes to nothing once it's put up......

She did an awesome job, now she needs to do another one.....

Material: $120, grommets from Ikea: $18.....pretty cheap drapes! These would be close to $1,000 if you bought them....have a lining and all!

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PaulW

....first the before/after pictures:

The joker who built the additon which is my office used a rough opening, then added a screen/glass outside door....so how to dress it up??

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So I decided to do some Maple veneer....what a bitch to work with, had to do the verticals twice....they got bubbles in them bad the first time around.....used 3M contact cement.....had to make a custom jam extension first so the trim would sit right because the 2x8 was sitting 5/16" too far back.....the pictures explain the rest....

Here's the jam extension with a 3 degree bevel on it...

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The verticals got bubbles on it after gluing it, and after polyurethane, they were terrible! Took them down this morning and redid it....look at the bubbles!!! My son told me to clamp it to get it to stick....

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It's done now....thank god!!!

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But once I got down to what I wanted to do with the trim, I realized that I needed to do drywall repair....again!

Then the guy came over and told me he could just corner bead the openings, and I wouldn't have to trim it out.....a lot cheaper and in the end, more of the look I want.....

So he'll be done by Monday, have a lot of repainting and the such to finish in a week, then I have to trim it all out! Before Thanksgiving!

The door for Kimberly's office will be in later this week.....

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