Tuesday, still dyin'.

I'm starting to wonder if the last gallon of paint we got from DIY Idiot's Haven was as fresh as other gallons of paint we got. It was way too thick...okay okay, so viscosity is just a matter of degrees and nobody else probably would have noticed, but I've got this thing for texture and I did.

Anyway, last night's adventure was to repeat the bedroom painting process, cutting in with a Crappy Ol' Angled Brush, and then rolling the bulk of it. Took maybe two hours, but day-yum! Feels like Monday morning all over again. I can barely make a fist my joints are so swollen.

On the plus side: except for a wee bit of touch up that I can do any time, our bedroom is done (I even got the ceiling fan reassembled.) There's some repair work to do around the door in Katie's room but the largest part of her room is done.

Tonight, we empty closets - at least the bottom half. Tomorrow, move the furniture out - including a gigantically huge Stearns & Foster king size pillow top mattress that weighs about as much as a Lincoln Town Car, and then we get new carpet. That I'm looking forward to.

Tuesday, still dyin'.

I'm starting to wonder if the last gallon of paint we got from DIY Idiot's Haven was as fresh as other gallons of paint we got. It was way too thick...okay okay, so viscosity is just a matter of degrees and nobody else probably would have noticed, but I've got this thing for texture and I did.

Anyway, last night's adventure was to repeat the bedroom painting process, cutting in with a Crappy Ol' Angled Brush, and then rolling the bulk of it. Took maybe two hours, but day-yum! Feels like Monday morning all over again. I can barely make a fist my joints are so swollen.

On the plus side: except for a wee bit of touch up that I can do any time, our bedroom is done (I even got the ceiling fan reassembled.) There's some repair work to do around the door in Katie's room but the largest part of her room is done.

Tonight, we empty closets - at least the bottom half. Tomorrow, move the furniture out - including a gigantically huge Stearns & Foster king size pillow top mattress that weighs about as much as a Lincoln Town Car, and then we get new carpet. That I'm looking forward to.

Remodeling update

Like many closets in many homes, our's was a simple closet rod with a shelf above. Very inefficient, as you might suppose, and we decided to gut the thing and replace what was there with a ClosetMaid 8-in-1 Closet Organizing System.

However, ours was different in how the closet rod/shelf configuration was accomplished. Most closets of this species have two little cups, one on each wall, left and right, that hold the closet rod. The shelf is a simple piece of plywood on little wooden cleats.

No so, here at Osage. Oh no, not so much.

My uncle built this closet as a floor to ceiling, eight foot wide cabinet, divided in quarters, left-top, left-bottom, right-top, right-bottom. I have often criticised my uncle for how he built things, for taking shortcuts wherever possible, regardless of the final product. In this closet, I might have prayed for that.

You see, when he wanted to exercise the talent, the man had a way of building things so that they wouldn't come apart.

No, that's not quite right. He had a way of building things so that even someone with a sixteen pound sledgehammer, a Sawz-All and a violently destructive temperament couldn't take them apart.

Damn, that was hard work. Two pretty impressive cuts on my left hand (they look bloody awful, but they're not really much trouble.) I got a couple good sized pieces of 3/4" plywood out of the deal, though, and that will find a use almost right away.

Carpet tomorrow!

Remodeling update

Like many closets in many homes, our's was a simple closet rod with a shelf above. Very inefficient, as you might suppose, and we decided to gut the thing and replace what was there with a ClosetMaid 8-in-1 Closet Organizing System.

However, ours was different in how the closet rod/shelf configuration was accomplished. Most closets of this species have two little cups, one on each wall, left and right, that hold the closet rod. The shelf is a simple piece of plywood on little wooden cleats.

No so, here at Osage. Oh no, not so much.

My uncle built this closet as a floor to ceiling, eight foot wide cabinet, divided in quarters, left-top, left-bottom, right-top, right-bottom. I have often criticised my uncle for how he built things, for taking shortcuts wherever possible, regardless of the final product. In this closet, I might have prayed for that.

You see, when he wanted to exercise the talent, the man had a way of building things so that they wouldn't come apart.

No, that's not quite right. He had a way of building things so that even someone with a sixteen pound sledgehammer, a Sawz-All and a violently destructive temperament couldn't take them apart.

Damn, that was hard work. Two pretty impressive cuts on my left hand (they look bloody awful, but they're not really much trouble.) I got a couple good sized pieces of 3/4" plywood out of the deal, though, and that will find a use almost right away.

Carpet tomorrow!