A renovation gone wrong
Finally, finally! I finished the bathroom window trim and it looks gorgeous! And imperfect! But I am so happy to have been able to use my grandmother’s fir trim. Just delighted.
Take a gander:
And the stool turned out wonderfully, although not as ‘bullnosed’ as I was hoping for. I am guessing my bit is not wide enough.
Now, on to finishing the wainscoting. After I have a coffee.
Final coats of paint are on. Fan and light installed. Window trim on. Space cleared out, mostly.
The floor will have to wait until all the work is done on the main floor, because I intend to pull the walnut that is in the original part of the house and use it upstairs. Then, I will refinish the original fir on the main floor. That’s waaaaay down the line, so I’ll have to live with subfloor for a while in the bedroom.
I mastered the router!
Well, maybe “master” isn’t the correct description. How about “conquered”? In any event, I got it figured out and created a decent-enough rounded edge for my window stool! (Stool is the actual name for what most people, including me, call a window sill. The sill is the name for the similar part on the outside of the window).
Anyway, yay me!
The reason I’m proud is that I bought the router over a month ago and it has sat since then waiting to be magically figured out or for someone to come and show me how to use it. Neither of those things happened.
I was intimidated by the router because the assembly instructions were written by a non-linear thinker, and certainly it did not come with instructions on how to use it. So it sat in its brand new fancy bag. But today I got at it and viola! It is not beyond me!
I’ve got a coat of shellac on this practice stool and once a few coats are dried I’ll attempt to fasten it to the window jamb, to see how it fits.
That’s also going to be tricky, because ass-hat builder built the jambs and they suck. The bottom jamb has a 30′ angle, so there’s no flat part for me to mount the stool. If I were a true carpenter, I would build a 30′ matching wedge for under the stool, but that is not within the realm of my abilities. So, some other ‘fix’ has to be worked out, I’m just not sure what it will be yet.
As with everything in this addition, the window stool is far from perfect, so it fits right in. Yay!
The actual stools are going to be from original fir from my grandma’s house. I’m so happy to be able to use it.
One thing done that I wasn’t entirely planning on doing this year, but which seemed “do-able” at reasonable cost and would make me feel good: A new front patio.
It’s compact, but exactly what I wanted for sitting out with a beverage on an early morning or late afternoon. It’s dappled shade and north side, so no searing sunshine during the summer. Just perfect.
My brother did the patio. It’s got its imperfections, but in that way it matches the house entirely.
There’s obviously still the landscaping to do – I’ll bring in topsoil and do some bulbs in the fall.
Now I just need two perfect chairs and a perfect small table and we’re good to go.
I finally got myself started on painting the bedroom. I chose Ben Moore Woodlawn Blue.
While this is only the first coat, I’m liking the colour.
