Do you ever have these days whenever you don’t have something deliberate or required of you that may divide your consideration out of your duties at hand? You get up that day and also you assume to your self, “That is going to be such a productive day! I’m going to get a lot executed at the moment!” After which on the finish of the day, you’re questioning, “What the heck occurred? How did I get so little completed at the moment?“
Yeah. That was my day yesterday. I had what I believed was going to be a full, uninterrupted work day. I simply knew I used to be going to get a lot executed on the closet yesterday, after which on the finish of the day, I stood in that room, laughing on the absurdities of the day, and pondering to myself, “Severely?! That is it? That is all I’ve to point out for at the present time?“
I knew it was going to be a tough one when Matt was already awake at 6:00am after I received up. I typically get up at 6:00 and begin my day very quietly, sneak off to my desk, and have about an hour of full quiet and solitude earlier than I wake him up at 7:00. However yesterday morning, he was already awake, and he was having a horrible morning. Ugh. Not an important begin to a Monday. So I needed to spend an important deal extra time than ordinary tending to him yesterday. (If you happen to’re new round right here, Matt is my husband, and he has M.S. He has good days, unhealthy days, and some very unhealthy days scattered in. Yesterday was a really unhealthy day.)
So I didn’t get began working till a lot later than ordinary. I used to be so enthusiastic about attempting out the fake marble counter tops for the washer and dryer cupboards, in order that’s what I supposed to spend my day doing. I wasted time going to House Depot, buying the plywood and provides wanted, after which realized that I had gotten means forward of myself. I actually wanted to put in the trim on the wallpapered partitions earlier than forging forward with the counter tops. In my pleasure in regards to the counter tops, I had forgotten that I’ve to kneel and stand on these counter tops to put in the crown molding in these areas.
So I put the countertop plan on maintain and began chopping the crown molding. I received the lengthy piece of crown molding reduce for the lengthy wall, tried to put in it, and realized in a short time that there was no solution to get that piece of crown molding (137 inches lengthy) previous the cupboards on the aspect partitions. I attempted every little thing I may consider, and each angle conceivable, to get that lengthy piece of molding previous the cupboards, and nothing labored. So I ended up having to chop that lengthy, stunning, full piece of crown molding into two items. I used to be so bummed to should put a reduce in that crown molding however there was no different means.
However I’ve been utilizing my miter noticed to chop a complete lot of metallic gadgets currently (just like the metallic closet rods), and the blade on my miter noticed was shot. Reducing wooden molding with that blade was in regards to the equal of attempting to hack away at it with a sequence noticed and get excellent cuts. So earlier than placing that reduce into my excellent piece of molding, I needed to change the blade. And naturally, I couldn’t get the screws off of the noticed. After all it couldn’t simply be a simple change. Yesterday wasn’t the day for straightforward. It was like these screws had been welded on. It took me about 45 minutes to do a activity that ought to have taken about 5 minutes. However I lastly received it executed.
Then I went to nail the crown molding into place, and my air compressor stopped working. I’ve identified for a few weeks that it was in all probability on its final leg. It had began making a metallic rattling sound after I turned it on, however I believed it may at the very least get me by this closet challenge. But it surely determined yesterday, as I used to be up on the ladder, holding the lengthy piece of crown molding in place with one hand and my nail gun within the different hand, that that was the second it was executed.
So I needed to make yet one more journey to House Depot to choose up this new little pancake Porter Cable air compressor. The timing wasn’t perfect, however I’ve to confess, I like any excuse to purchase new instruments. 😀 Simply look how fairly and glossy it’s! That received’t final lengthy, although. 😀
I like this little pancake air compressor, and for those who’re searching for one which’s small and moveable, however highly effective sufficient to do nearly any job a DIYer would wish to do, I extremely advocate this one. That previous one lasted me for a lot of, a few years, and received me by each challenge I’ve executed on this home to this point, from framing out home windows and doorways to constructing furnishings and every little thing in between.
So as soon as I used to be again with my new air compressor, I used to be lastly capable of get the trim put in. I received the highest (pieced) crown molding up, the window trim re-installed, and the baseboard in place.
I don’t know for those who can see the place I needed to piece collectively the crown molding. It’s about 16 inches to the left of the nook.
When piecing trim collectively, I all the time reduce at a 45-degree angle as a substitute of chopping the 2 items with a straight reduce. I feel that 45-degree angle helps to cover the joint a lot better. And naturally, I nonetheless have to do some wooden filling and sanding on that joint. I feel it’ll just about disappear when it’s completed, but it surely nonetheless frustrates me that I had to try this within the first place.
By the point I received all of these items reduce and put in, it was already after 8:00. And I don’t like utilizing my energy instruments outdoors after 8:00pm. In order that’s it. I needed to name it a day. I received the entire nail holes wooden crammed in order that I can get them sanded at the moment. I nonetheless want to chop and set up the crown molding for the aspect partitions and the ends of the cupboards. Then I’ll should do a little bit of caulking, after which I can paint.
The entire trim on that wall will probably be painted the identical shade as the cupboards. This would be the solely room in the home that doesn’t have white trim, however I feel the blue will probably be a lot better. Seeing that white (primed) trim on that wall simply seems misplaced.
Anyway, I share all of that with you to not complain about my day, however principally to deliver a little bit of the fact of the world of DIY. Some days are so productive. Others are a comedy of error from starting to finish. And final night time, all I may do was stand again, have a look at my tiny little bit of progress, chortle on the absurdities of the day, and hope for a greater day at the moment. Thus far, so good. Matt wakened feeling nice this morning, so we’re off to a a lot better begin!
On one other subject, final night time after I stood again to admire my tiny little bit of progress 😀 , I received to fascinated about that window.
I had initially deliberate to place the window shade again up, and I nonetheless would possibly try this. I clearly want privateness since this can be a closet, and I’ll be getting wearing right here. That window faces the road, and I don’t actually wish to be placing on a present for my neighbors and passersby every day. So my authentic plan was to place the shade again up, decrease it in order that the highest portion of the window is roofed by the shade, after which put privateness window movie on the decrease half. That means, some pure gentle can nonetheless come into the room.
However the shade I’ve is darkish, and it actually doesn’t go within the room anymore. Or does it? Right here’s a reminder of the colour…
I spent some huge cash on that shade (it’s lined with blackout lining and sized to suit the window completely), so I actually don’t wish to buy one other lined shade for the window. I had thought-about attempting to bleach it with wooden bleach. That is perhaps an attention-grabbing experiment. I actually don’t assume it must match the ground, however I would really like it to be a bit lighter than it’s now.
But additionally, after I stood again and checked out that wall final night time with the trim, I believed it is perhaps good to go away it off utterly and use window movie on the entire window. So I’m undecided. Y’all can inform me what you assume. Ought to I take advantage of the shade? Attempt to bleach it? Go away it off utterly? I suppose I may go forward and add the window movie to the underside half, strive bleaching the shade, put it again up, and see how that appears. If the bleach doesn’t work out, I can go forward and go away it off and add the window movie to the highest.
I don’t know why however having the window movie simply on the underside portion of the window and the shade on high feels secure to me. As in, I don’t fear about folks having the ability to see in. However having no shade on the window in any respect, and utilizing the window movie on the whole window makes me really feel much less assured that folks can’t see in. I do know that is mindless in any respect. 😀 If it’ll work on the underside half, it’ll work on the highest half as effectively. However there’s simply one thing about having a window with no shade on it in any respect — a window that faces the road — that makes me really feel extra weak. However I additionally assume it might look actually fairly to go away the shade off of the window utterly and simply let the blue trim and wallpaper be front-and-center. What are your ideas on the matter?
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and enhance the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You’ll be able to be taught extra about me right here.
