we’re making some real progress on the office, so that means time for…
(left) dumpy’s glamor shot. (right) and here’s my new brass light switch.
(left) here’s the cove crown molding detail shot i should have taken last weekend. see the “c” shape? it’s made from lots of pieces of poplar wood, finger jointed together. pre-made from the lumber yard, mathew did NOT make these! (right) see that dark gap between the small primed molding and the tin ceiling? i’m filling it with caulk. it started out as a really frustrating project but then i finally got the hang of it just about when i finished my last wall.
(left) mathew doing some trigonometry to figure out tricky angles for the crown molding that will go in the little alcove above the bay windows. (right) his calcs. when was the last time you worked with sines and cosines? ack.
(left) taking a little break. (right) towards the right in the photo above, you can see why those angles were tricky…
here we are trying to decide whether to add the 3rd piece of molding below the cove. in the end we liked the clean lines of the cove and left off the 3rd molding even though we already purchased it. it also meant less measuring, cutting, filing, installing, filling and painting…
as mathew is working his way around the room filling the nail holes in the trim, i am priming the cove molding. here is how the ceiling looked at the end of the evening.