All hands on deck

Still working on the “green room.” Iain installed the doors and we have spent (OK, HE has spent) ages trying to get them to hang properly and shut correctly. The entire room is like some sort of crazy-house parallelogram imitation of a room. Nothing is square, true, plumb or level. I’m rather shocked I hadn’t noticed before now.

But, at long last, the doors are nearly finished. I caulked them myself Wednesday afternoon, in a blessed respite from the world’s loudest-slash-whiniest children (it was a tie), and all that remains is another coat of ultragloss arctic white.

Then we clean up the subfloor (literally: remove the cocoa puffs and oak-tree debris littered about) and start laying some delicious Ikea laminate flooring.

That should start the train a-chugging toward Completion-town and, my favorite, Decoration-ville, with a brief stop in Furniture-Arranging City.

I think I need me some graph paper; I have plans.

May 9, 2008 | Filed Under house

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3 Responses to “All hands on deck”

heather on May 9th, 2008 8:56 pm

painting the doors - what did you find was the best way? Did you spray them or brush them? My hubby is in the process of re-doing all of our doors too. I need to start painting and was wondering about the best way…
mb on May 9th, 2008 9:23 pm

Well, we did it with a brush. I am a big fan of spray paint, though; when I paint our bookcases that’s what I’ll use. The only hangup for the doors is all those glass panes — and the oak trees are shedding, so we had to be able to do it indoors.
Elizabeth on May 11th, 2008 6:50 pm

Oh, that looks great! Does it feel good to finally be on that train? Past the holes and crazy uneven-ness? Can’t wait to see the finished product!