OK,
I bought a door. Or more correctly, I ordered a door because Lowe's
does not stock plain and simple. I settled for a fiberglass solid
core half light with clear glass, two panels (wanted only one but the
only option for that cost well over double than the one I ordered),
textured with wood grain on both sides that I will stain on the
inside and paint on the outside. I hope I like it.
The ceiling is done, lightly textured, and the bead board is going up today while Rocky figures out how to work with
the weird way they built the windows and doors in this part of the
house. What I want to end up with on the windows is a sill and
molding like the windows in the rest of the house and molding around
the 4 doors in this room. Seems like it ought to be easy but let me
just say that it's kind of tricky as there was no sill before on the
windows. Well, there was a sill but it was brick and that's
gone now.
So
that was yesterday. When I got back from Lowe's I realized I needed
another door as well, the one that leads to the back bedroom and
little bathroom and it was an immediate need so back I went today to
get that (as they do stock hollow core plain jane interior slab doors) and also some different baseboard molding because
remember, 'weird way they built this part of the house'. Turns out
the walls are not 8' but 8'4” which means I need extra wide base
molding to cover up that extra 4 inches.
the
plan is to do the step in mosaic
Since my grandson still has
my truck, I put it all in 'will call' and Rocky is going to go fetch
it for me and so he did pulling up earlier with the door and molding. No other progress today as they finished up a neighbor's house today.
On
a related note, while I haven't been working on the cast glass this
week, I did finally get the driveway completely cleared off except
for the bags of dirt but they were there before.
I
think I'll actually be able to get some work done on the castings and
preparations the next three days as tomorrow is Rocky's birthday and
he's taking that day off which means no construction til Monday.
So
that's my goal.
