| 9-2-03
I'm standing in the living room wearing my tool bags and staring at
this mountain of trim stacked on the floor. Somehow I have to cut
and nail it all to resemble an Arts & Crafts house. Then I get
to build the cabinets. I can tell I'll be blowing sawdust out my
nose for a long time...
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| Stop the presses! The Riverside
Press-Enterprise got wind of our project, and wanted to do a story for
their "Townsfolk" feature. It came out 9/9/03. Photo at the right is
Peter Phun, the photographer, who
probably isn't used to his photo getting published. Both he and the
reporter Jacquie Paul were extremely nice. |
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| This is the typical casing scheme for interior windows, with
1x4 legs, a 3/8" bead, and 1x6 head. Windows also get a 1"
thick sill and 1x4 stool. The original houses would have invariably
used knot-free old-growth Douglas fir for this, even if it was to be
painted. More often than not it was stained and varnished.
This would cost a fortune nowadays, so we used Medium Density Fiberboard
(MDF), a cabinet-grade particle board, with sills and bead sawn out of
common fir lumber (we putty the knots). |
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| September 5, 2003
Out of the blue one Saturday my wife's uncle calls and says he's
driving up from Escondido to help. He's a "retired"
contractor and home inspector, and spent all day and a good part of the
evening taking my pile of old doors and hanging them in place, not an easy
feat since there was not a square edge in the whole bunch. They will
later be stripped and painted, but I needed them hung so that I can put
the casings on and know that the door will still close. The opening
above the door is a transom window. |
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| The inside of the door showing the transom window in
place. You open it with a rod that has a brass hook on the end, that
hangs in the closet when not in use. |
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| September 15, 2003
We had to pull out the toilet while we tiled the powder bathroom, and
just put it back in. Boy did we miss it! This room is almost
done except for painting above the wainscot and sanding/painting the
door. A new faucet for the sink is in order also. |
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| This bathroom was just the right size- just big enough to be
creative, but not so big that you get tired of doing any one thing.
I tiled the floor in a day, instead of three weeks like my last bathroom
floor. The tile behind the sink is 3X6 subway tile. |
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| The window between the kitchen and dining room is all
trimmed out. This is the window I made from some of the old studs we
tore out. |
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