the last two weekends have looked pretty much the same.
i’m slowly working my way around the bathroom installing wainscoting. (right) i’m especially proud of the places where i have to pre-drill or pre-cut for plumbing and electrical outlets.
since we’re recycling wood, i’m also piecing two smaller boards to create one large board most of the time. this was tricky because each board isn’t exactly the same width, there could be a difference up to 3/16″, which doesn’t sound like a lot until you’ve got that large a gap between boards and then it’s not so pretty. so it became a big matching game.
(left) this is my 4th pipe in the wall and it falls between two pieces of wainscotting. (right) i clamp two pieces together, measure exactly where the pipe will fit and drill the hole. mathew and i are surprised by how accurate my measuring has been.
installing wainscoting is noisy, dusty work so i just wear my respirator mask and ear protection pretty much the entire time. this is a dramatic reinactment where i’ve forgotten my protective eye goggles… if i had them on, you probably wouldn’t recognize me.
(left) this was my view of mathew for the last two weekends. (right) this was mathew’s view for the last two weekends.
now that the windows have been installed, mathew has put all the siding and window trim back in place. it sounds simple but involved lots of wood repair, sanding and priming. the brown stuff is bondo for filling holes and cracks, most of it he applied on saturday after the sun had gone down and the mosquitoes were out.
mathew spent this last weekend scraping, sanding and prepping the entire wall and window trim for paint (oh the noise! can you tell i’m not big on noise?) he did spend some time cutting left-over crown moulding, this involves carefully measuring tricky angles to fit it together under the small bathroom window sill. he wanted to have something pretty under the window in case someone looked out at it. (i’m sorry i don’t have any photos of the finished moulding. i’m not about to climb the scaffolding on this cold monday morning to take the one missing photo.) (right) here is an ugly “before” pipe photo instead.
you’ll have to tune in next week when we post photos of the finished, painted wall!