Well, it’s been summer: a time for bike riding, and not working on the house! I’ve done a bit though.
I managed to put up some of the muntins for the guard railing at the deck. They look really good with the roses, I think!
And I painted the garden room and the garage toilet room.
The garden room primed…
The gas pipe painted pink!
Here’s the garden room with paint.
Now for the trim in the garden room.
I still have a big pile of old wood that I want to re-use, so for the trim in the garden room, I planed and joined it. After all that work, can’t go painting it. Polyurethane!
Here’s some of the joinery I was working on. It would have been much easier if I’d just bought three windows the same size, instead of re-using the old windows from the front!
I think it’s looking really nice, even with the rust marks from old nail holes.
I also finished up the trim around the toilet room window. This time, only the window sill got stripped and stained.
This is the rebuilt window all framed in and ready for the final coat of paint.
Well, I may change my mind and paint some color at some point, but my initial thought was it’s such a tiny space, I’d just paint everything the same semi-gloss white except the window sill. We’ll see once the floor is in.
I also installed the sink in the toilet room. It’s going to be really awkward to use, but saved a lot of plumbing work. One of those things I did to try to take less time, that may bug me later.
Still not plumbed in, but close. The toilet is going to be right next to it on the right. Sigh…
Arwen came to check on my work.
“There’s a bike in the garden room! I’d better sniff the wheel.”
“OK, so while I’m in the garage, let me check out everything else. Hey, yellow cycling shoes!”
“Why is turtle’s workbench such a mess? Hardly any room to walk on it.”