Well another surprisingly productive weekend is in the books. I installed my “custom” wainscoting on the couch wall Saturday and had three coats of paint on it by the end of Monday. In between that was alot of filler, sanding, caulking, and taping. I know everyone loves progress pictures so here we go. Excuse the horrible camera angles, the massive couch and chair are now in the middle of the room as they have no where else to go until they are sold (on craigslist now!).
Hopefully a few final touch-ups tonight and we will be ready for the new furniture to show up. I’m thinking that the existing couches will be gone by Sunday and the new ones showing up the following week…so I may have nothing to sit on for a week. Oh well.
Also accomplished was the start of the patio cleanup for this season. I did some plumbing work Sunday to connect the hose bib on the patio and everything seems to work great. I think we are going to coat the patio with something to make it look new. I also want to get some commercial grade string lights to go over the patio (more on that to come).
That’s all for now. Stay tuned.
Oh and PS…doesn’t the room look so much better without that tv cabinet up against the knee wall?
Hey, I love the wainscoting! What kind/size of wood did you use? And yours really appears to be just the tops, bottoms and sides, right? No inner moulding or anything like that, eh?
Thanks! Its called “sandi-ply” and comes in 2′ x 4′ sheets in 1/4″ thick from Home Depot. I ripped it down to 2″ and 3″ strips with my table saw. The 2″ strips go on the horizontals, aka on top of the baseboards and under the chair rail. I then did the horizontal strips with 3″ pieces. Its more of a shaker style and allowed me to get a great look without having to do a ton of intricate wood work. The centers of the squares are just the existing drywall painted white, but you’d never know the difference. I’m really happy with how it turned out because I didn’t have to remove any existing baseboards because the 1/4″ thick wood matches perfectly with the top of the baseboard. If you have more of a budget you could use the precut strips of poplar that the depot sells, but I figured since it was just getting painted white, it didn’t matter because I could fill any imperfections, sand and paint over it.
Argh. Must get table saw…. I keep paying extra for pre-cut wood in weird sizes for projects because I don’t have one. Finding every shortcut possible. Straight edge rig for my jigsaw, etc. Thanks for the info!
Honestly, I just got a cheap Skill brand saw on black friday from lowes. It works great for trim and lighter pieces of wood, however it doesn’t have a big enough cutting deck to do huge pieces of wood. For big pieces of plywood or mdf you’re better off clamping a straight edge on it and using a circular saw.
Nevermind just saw ur post on part 4 …. Thanx