Room remodel progress
Nov. 18th, 2023 11:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickRemember, folks, progress is only real if people hear about you doing it. :)
Painting: Slightly more than half the room has been painted twice (two coats of finish color). I did the one side twice first so that I didn't have to move everything more times. Right now I'm drying the paint (woodstove on, widow in room open, blower fan in window facing outward, pulling warm dry stove air through room and out window) so that I can move the stuff and paint the other side of the room.
Trim: All removed from walls, all nails removed. Needs to be painted but I am not feeling trim painting just yet. Have to put down flooring before I can reinstall trim anyway.
Flooring: I need one box of remaindered LVT (need not match color, but does have to match interlock style) and that's the flooring sorted. I've put out a request to my flooring peeps to see what they can dig up for me. (The plants will not care what color the floor is.)
Hole patching (ceiling): ugh. There are some holes in the ceiling because I was trying to locate studs with, like, negative success. I need to finish the patch and sanding there so that I can effing paint the entire ceiling. I hate above-my-head work but also I will hate unpainted spots in the ceiling so I expect this will resolve itself eventually by way of big girl pants, etc.
Does it really help to use business speak for this shit? Lolnope.
Step 1: Cull the books -- DONE
Step 2: Remove the unwanted furniture -- DONE
Step 3: Replace fan heater with baseboard electric and programmable thermostat. -- DONE
Step 4A: Patch drywall -- DONE
Step 4B: Take off baseboard trim -- DONE
Step 4C: Paint room some color that is neutral. 1/2 done.
Step 5: Tear up carpet, padding, tacker strip -- DONE!
Step A: Make and install a permanent plant shelf
Wait, whut? That wasn't in the original proposal...
Shaddup, you. I should get to have the things I want.
Step A-1: Design said PPS -- DONE
Step A-2: Acquire boards, prime, paint -- DONE
Step A-3: Install PPS -- In progress. Should be done by the end of the weekend, except for lights which are en route right now.
Step 6: Put down laminate plank flooring. (... working on this, don't have enough flooring yet)
Step 7: Reinstall trim. (Added Step 7A: Repaint trim while it's off the walls.)
Step 8A: Build or buy shelving for remaining books. (Having some thoughts here, what with discoveries made during PPS design.)
Step 8B: Install crafting stuff to get it out of the living room.
Project has met several key deliverables and appears to be more-or-less on schedule for a holiday-season completion depending on availability of flooring, general enthusiasm and morale of workforce, etc. Every effort will be made to provide a prompt, quality outcome for our client.
There will, yo, be a reveal video when I'm done. There wasn't really a full frontal "before" picture b/c I am not super into sharing the... volume of the book problem or exactly how much useless clutter I tolerate in my day-to-day. (Just now getting the book wordplay? Yeah, I did that. Sue me.) But it's going to be so nice and bright and pretty when I'm done. And a quick tour of the plants, too. I am very excited and making pretty good headway on The Project.
Painting: Slightly more than half the room has been painted twice (two coats of finish color). I did the one side twice first so that I didn't have to move everything more times. Right now I'm drying the paint (woodstove on, widow in room open, blower fan in window facing outward, pulling warm dry stove air through room and out window) so that I can move the stuff and paint the other side of the room.
Trim: All removed from walls, all nails removed. Needs to be painted but I am not feeling trim painting just yet. Have to put down flooring before I can reinstall trim anyway.
Flooring: I need one box of remaindered LVT (need not match color, but does have to match interlock style) and that's the flooring sorted. I've put out a request to my flooring peeps to see what they can dig up for me. (The plants will not care what color the floor is.)
Hole patching (ceiling): ugh. There are some holes in the ceiling because I was trying to locate studs with, like, negative success. I need to finish the patch and sanding there so that I can effing paint the entire ceiling. I hate above-my-head work but also I will hate unpainted spots in the ceiling so I expect this will resolve itself eventually by way of big girl pants, etc.
Does it really help to use business speak for this shit? Lolnope.
Step 1: Cull the books -- DONE
Step 2: Remove the unwanted furniture -- DONE
Step 3: Replace fan heater with baseboard electric and programmable thermostat. -- DONE
Step 4A: Patch drywall -- DONE
Step 4B: Take off baseboard trim -- DONE
Step 4C: Paint room some color that is neutral. 1/2 done.
Step 5: Tear up carpet, padding, tacker strip -- DONE!
Step A: Make and install a permanent plant shelf
Wait, whut? That wasn't in the original proposal...
Shaddup, you. I should get to have the things I want.
Step A-1: Design said PPS -- DONE
Step A-2: Acquire boards, prime, paint -- DONE
Step A-3: Install PPS -- In progress. Should be done by the end of the weekend, except for lights which are en route right now.
Step 6: Put down laminate plank flooring. (... working on this, don't have enough flooring yet)
Step 7: Reinstall trim. (Added Step 7A: Repaint trim while it's off the walls.)
Step 8A: Build or buy shelving for remaining books. (Having some thoughts here, what with discoveries made during PPS design.)
Step 8B: Install crafting stuff to get it out of the living room.
Project has met several key deliverables and appears to be more-or-less on schedule for a holiday-season completion depending on availability of flooring, general enthusiasm and morale of workforce, etc. Every effort will be made to provide a prompt, quality outcome for our client.
There will, yo, be a reveal video when I'm done. There wasn't really a full frontal "before" picture b/c I am not super into sharing the... volume of the book problem or exactly how much useless clutter I tolerate in my day-to-day. (Just now getting the book wordplay? Yeah, I did that. Sue me.) But it's going to be so nice and bright and pretty when I'm done. And a quick tour of the plants, too. I am very excited and making pretty good headway on The Project.
