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mapsedgeOf my goals for the weekend, a few weren't done.
- Reconnect the electrical to the dining room ceiling fan. Who am I kidding? Until temps drop into the sixties at night, it will never be cool enough in the attic to do any work up there.
- Cut shims for all the window frames to bring them flush with the drywall. Got one window done, four more to go. The rest are going to need a custom thickness on all four sides each, and I just ran out of energy.
- Re-hang the cabinets. Michelle talked me out of this one. Better to wait until the walls are completely painted. I don't necessarily agree, but I don't strongly disagree either, and, as I said, I was running out of energy.
HOWEVER, for the first time since...what?...2002..? all of the walls in the dining room are the same color. It's primer, but they're the same color. The dining room/kitchen will be yellow, but we've yet to land on the exact color. We bought three "auditions", half-pints of each possibility, and painted a block of each on three of the four walls. We'll look at the colors for a few days, have a focus group, see which if any of them really work.
Tonight: install outlet boxes and reconnect the outlets on the west wall...if I can remember where the stud cavities that have the wiring are.
This coming weekend: install beadboard on the ceiling, and four can lights to replace the hanging fixtures.
Oh, the area of the wall with the noticeable outward bend? The stud behind that spot was never attached to the top plate, and years of closing the door to the basement slowly pushed it outward. With the drywall removed, I grabbed the top and yanked - it moved about an inch and a half back into place, bringing it inline with the rest of the wall. One metal bracket and a toenailed 3-1/2" coarse-thread deck screw, and it ain't movin' no mo'.
I've seen this a lot in my house: construction members that aren't attached to anything structural. I guess my uncle - and later, my father - figured that friction, gravity, and drywall would work in concert with the boards inside the wall to form a stable unit. It's an attitude that is hopelessly, sometimes dangerously, optimistic. I hope I've found them all.
- Reconnect the electrical to the dining room ceiling fan. Who am I kidding? Until temps drop into the sixties at night, it will never be cool enough in the attic to do any work up there.
- Cut shims for all the window frames to bring them flush with the drywall. Got one window done, four more to go. The rest are going to need a custom thickness on all four sides each, and I just ran out of energy.
- Re-hang the cabinets. Michelle talked me out of this one. Better to wait until the walls are completely painted. I don't necessarily agree, but I don't strongly disagree either, and, as I said, I was running out of energy.
HOWEVER, for the first time since...what?...2002..? all of the walls in the dining room are the same color. It's primer, but they're the same color. The dining room/kitchen will be yellow, but we've yet to land on the exact color. We bought three "auditions", half-pints of each possibility, and painted a block of each on three of the four walls. We'll look at the colors for a few days, have a focus group, see which if any of them really work.
Tonight: install outlet boxes and reconnect the outlets on the west wall...if I can remember where the stud cavities that have the wiring are.
This coming weekend: install beadboard on the ceiling, and four can lights to replace the hanging fixtures.
Oh, the area of the wall with the noticeable outward bend? The stud behind that spot was never attached to the top plate, and years of closing the door to the basement slowly pushed it outward. With the drywall removed, I grabbed the top and yanked - it moved about an inch and a half back into place, bringing it inline with the rest of the wall. One metal bracket and a toenailed 3-1/2" coarse-thread deck screw, and it ain't movin' no mo'.
I've seen this a lot in my house: construction members that aren't attached to anything structural. I guess my uncle - and later, my father - figured that friction, gravity, and drywall would work in concert with the boards inside the wall to form a stable unit. It's an attitude that is hopelessly, sometimes dangerously, optimistic. I hope I've found them all.