When I cut the doorway out for the closet door and showed Dad what I had done, that was his remark. It has become our motto renovating our house. Neither one of us has any construction experience, so we have winged it with advice from people and google. When we screw something up, or just don't quite get it perfect one of us always says jokingly, "It ain't right, but we'll make it work."
I didn't update the blog last week, and I know some of you check pretty regularly. (I have to give a big shout out to Christy Smith here) I really didn't think we had accomplished much. But after looking through pictures, the light at the end of the tunnel has grown some more.
Friday before last, I took off work at lunch. After gathering plumbing supplies, Cole and I got started working on the bathroom. We were waiting to install the pocket door until we got the vanity set into place. So that was our first project Friday afternoon. Here is the vanity centered, shimmed and attached to the wall.
Once the vanity was in place and vanity top was installed we framed up the pocket door.
I spent most of Saturday afternoon plumbing the grey water pipes under the house. I don't have any pictures of that, so I will move on to Sunday.
Tea came over to spend the day with Cole Sunday, so I turned the camera over to her while Cole and I worked on cabinet doors. I'll post the rest of Tea's pictures in another post.
Here are the cabinet doors pickled, poly'd, and ready to hang.
The new hinges we bought made the doors overlap unless you closed them at the same time. Dad and I trimmed this pair so they would close properly.
Measuring for handle positioning.
And voila, drawers and a door done.
It got to be the heat of the day (about 103 or so if I recall correctly), so since Cole had invited Tea to come over and swim, we called it a day renovation wise and headed to the trailer to swim/float the day away.
Last week, we got a little bit done in the evenings. Deb ended up with her annual sinus infection from starting back to school and that slowed her way down. But we did get the rest of the cabinet doors trimmed and hung up. Having them off the floor and closing up the cabinets made the place start to look more like a home and less like a construction zone.
The white door under the oven will eventually get finished to match the rest of the cabinets. We plan to install a double oven in place of the single one, so the brick will have to be cut out lower for it to fit and therefore the cabinet door and frame will have to be cut down as well.
I worked on the master bathroom water lines with plans to hook up the bathroom Saturday afternoon. I had everything ready to hook up and realized the new washer hook up was plumbed with Quest instead of Pex so I will be replumbing it with Pex before teeing into the original copper.
After I climbed out from under the house, Deb was feeling a little better from her nap and said she was feeling good enough to have me hang some of her decorations.
We finally sucked it up and finished installing the pocket door Sunday morning. I still have the hardware to put on the door. It isn't exactly right, but it'll work.
Because of the thickness of the shower walls, we ripped a 2X4 into 1/4" strips and glued them to the frame work around the shower so our sheetrock will hang flat instead of bowing out where it meets the shower. The horizontal pieces between the door frame and shower are shims to help transition. Rob White gave me this suggestion a while back.
I will have to rip one more 1/4" piece tonight to run from the floor to the ceiling at the corner here and then we will finish the rock in the bathroom and get it prepped for paint.
Well, that's where we are. Almost ready for tile, carpet, counter tops, and backsplash. It seems to be coming together all at once. I don't know if we will be moved in before Razorback football starts, but hopefully we will be really close.
No comments:
Post a Comment