Bob: A new piece of door trim for the long room door, cut and installed. The door and the left side moulding got painted while I was working on the long room.
Nan: You know, a fitting room would be wonderful...hum....Oh, Bob. Bob? Where Are You?
Bob: (Shhh! Don't tell her I'm hiding in the garage!) ;-}~
Bob: I used scraps of plywood to create spacer blocks to shim out the empty space below the sheetrock, in anticipation of installing baseboard mouldings. Gaps were due to some of the walls being just over eight feet tall.
Nan: Bob got really good at filling in the spaces around here.
Bob: It was hard to tell where to start with some of this drywall mud, or indeed, when to stop! I just kept smearing it on, and sanding it off, and smearing it on, and sanding it off. Eventually things leveled out sufficiently to go on...
Nan: At least now the big patch in the ceiling is disappearing! I'd say he did a great
job of filling in these holes, too!
Bob: That door and frame installed just dandy in the opening here to the bathroom. Hey, it's easy to install a door! I learned how on the internet! (and This Old House).
Nan: This shot still makes the door look bowed. I promise it's not.
Bob: I elected to not recreate the 7-1/2" original baseboards in this room, and instead used more of those cheap 3-1/2" baseboard remnants. I mean, goodness, just for this room and the bathroom, 8" pine would've run over $100! With some of the original baseboard already buried in the sheetrock, and other of it just fine, I also decided to leave all the originals that were here, thus making this room a mixed-moulding result. I found that dark piece of moulding out in the garage...
Nan: We patched and matched the baseboard in this room as best we could for now. I
figured it would all mostly be covered over by all my sewing equipment, that it wouldn't
show, and it would have been very time consuming to do it all the same, considering we'd
have to tear out some of the lath and plaster and modify some of the sheetrock...so this
is another someday project.
Bob: The new face mouldings for the bathroom door were also made from pine, the dimensions being identical to others in the room. I couldn't avoid making the lintel above the door opening, and succeeded in copying other originals with a borrowed router and a 3/4" round-over bit on a one-inch thick slab of two-by-four. Later on (next year?), I'll fabricate the top capital with an ogee bit and a cove bit on a composite two-inch stack of boards to really finish this off. In the meantime this will look good enough.
Nan: Someday all the tops of the doors and windows that are either missing trim or have
been hacked up, will get repaired or replaced. With a good router, it would be as
easy as - ahem - lentil soup.
Bob: When you start doing things like running two heights of baseboard, they eventually meet up...;-}~ As you can see, the woodwork and the wallwork are both completing up nicely...
Nan: Yes, I know, they don't really match up, but if you can see this with all my junque
stuffed in front of it, I'll let you pay for tearing out all that wallboard, plaster & lath
and the baseboard, then replace it...oh, and did I say we'll hire a contractor to do the work?
hehehe So, I take it that you'll accept that we made the best decision? I thought so! And that's
another someday someday someday.
Bob: Anyway, to cut to the chase, here is that corner next to the bedroom, with a coat of primer. The ceiling patch has been textured also. I've been busy... ;-}~
Nan: We have a lot of ceiling work to do throughout the house. That's another someday someday...
Bob: And here's that new bathroom door, and the surrounding walls and mouldings, painted 'n' everything! This is the same color scheme we used for the long room.
Nan: I love this color scheme; it's so clean and delicious looking. Many happy hours will be spent in this bright cheerful atmosphere, someday someday. Oh, in regards to someday:
Someday
By Nancy (Elrod) Spaeth (c)1998
Promises we make
Things to do
We give them a
Name
Someday
Vacations to take
People to see
Letters to write
All
Someday
Affirmation I give
Truly I say
To love you now
Not
Someday
(If someday never comes, will you regret not loving now, instead of Someday?)
Bob: This was that hideously damaged corner next to the bedroom, prettied up good enough to start moving stuff in, finally! We were all bumping up against deadlines and rent periods, trying to get all of the dusty work done before we brought everything over. Also, in the end, we decided not to reinstall the bedroom door, simply because we really don't need it, and besides, it would just get in the way! Those hinges will come down later, as will that old baseboard heater thermostat...
Nan: All dressed up and ready to go. I think I have a date with this room!
Anyway, now take a look at how we finished up...