Things are coming along quite well in the project department. As you can see, I’m not sleeping on the couch any more. As you may also be able to see…there are cords coming from my blanket. That’s because at night it’s only been around 40 degrees and it’s an electric blanket. In May.
Anyway. I found myself dreaming tonight about what it’ll be like when this is all done. And about how I’ve come this far. Let’s take a look back at the last few days.
Okay, so here is our new closet and the hallway. On the right side you can see where the door to the office once way. The photo on the bottom right is the finished product after it had been all textured and painted.
The left column is upside down and I apologize. The bottom left photo is of the new closet going in. That’s the chimney on the left side of it. The door to the hall used to be there. The upper photo is after all the drywall went up.
Again with the backwards layout. On the right you will see the mortar process. Because the chimney is old and crumbly I needed to coat the whole thing with mortar to keep all the nasty inside. Once all the drywall was up, the joint compound put on, walls textured and floor cleaned up the painting began.
The worst part of this whole process was the dusty, disgusting floor. You can see just how gross it was in the mortar photos. I really don’t like sitting around in piles of dirt, but there was nothing I could do about it. After all the drywall had been cut I was free to sweep and mop. {Thank goodness.}
I painted Saturday. If you follow along on Facebook you probably know that I had quite an afternoon. The whole thing took lots longer than it should have. I fell off a step ladder, I knocked over a gallon of paint, and a shocked myself on hot {mislabeled} wires. But by midnight all the walls were painted and the floor had been polyurethaned.
I put together this final image to show the before and after of my traumatic day. The top image is my very first roll of paint onto the walls. Only 45 minutes later I fell onto my love handle and ended up with this shiner. Gross!
All in all it’s coming along very nicely. Today I {spent more time than it should have taken} cutting and putting baseboards and trim in place. I’m terrible at math, so measuring and cutting and visualizing angles is a nightmare for me. But now they are all in place. And tonight/tomorrow installing my closet system!! I cannot even begin to express how excited I am to access my clothes again.
xo
Amy
