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April 24, 2006
Doors, Doorframes, and Walls
Earlier this month Brian built a new door frame for our bedroom. A couple of reasons for this was, 1) it was the only door frame in the house with mitered corners and it was smaller in size than the other trim work. 2) Brian had to install a new door, and it would make his job so much easier.
Here is the door way after taking down the existing doorframe
Now he hasn?t built a door frame before but it wasn?t that hard for him. First he planed the wood, we have a lot of rough cut oak that we are using. It planes up beautifully.
Then after all the measuring and cutting he started to put it together. One thing he learned is the nails they make today really are junky. Almost everyone of them bent going into the oak. So that was the slowest part of the whole job.
Anyway now we have a beautiful and very STOUT doorframe. He is thinking of rebuilding the entrance doorframe as well with oak, since it does make it so sturdy! Here is the doorframe after getting it built and all the trim up, the trim by the way is just pine...
When we tore down the existing doorframe we discovered a couple of things. One, we found where the original back window was in the living room before the bedroom addition was added on. It?s the reason you can look on the left side, from the bedroom vantage, and see where there is plywood, and where there is the original siding to the house. On the right side its siding from top to bottom. But not on the left. Also the paint coating is very thin on the siding that was once the back of the house, suggesting a closer to original color. Which all makes sense, since its...take a guess? Yep...GREEN. loL! Those people REALLY liked green =) Here is the siding, sandwiched in between the walls in our livingroom and bedroom
Then after a lot of putty, sand, putty, sand, we finally got the first wall painted last night with its new Cottonwood tint from Ralph Lauren. The color sample really doesnt do it justice. Its got a lot of yellow undertones and on the walls its nearly a lighter tan color in the day. At any rate in does very well with the really bright in contrast kitchen color of Goldfinch.
And the doorframe with its 1 coat of Kilz, and its one coat on the wall. We still have to add another coat for the wall, and 1 coat of brilliant white for the trim...
And this shows the two rooms. Right now the livingroom is darker than normal because of furniture being out of place. The beam in the middle will be painted white eventually to match the rest of the trim.
At least I can see some progress ~ finally after all the dust loL!
Comments (2)
bookyeti:Wow, looks great, Jess! Love that cottonwood color too (we're looking for a sofa and chair in that shade). Keep up the great work. :)
Posted by bookyeti | April 27, 2006 5:44 AM
Posted on April 27, 2006 05:44
Jessica:Thanks Bev! I hope you can find a sofa set in the color you are looking for!
Pleasing hubby on a color is a hard thing to do, and he LOVES it. I think he loves it even more than I do loL! He's a black and white kind of man. But he confessed last night as he finished up the first coat, that he favors colored walls now. =)) YAY!! heheh
Sorry I missed your comment Kim, but thanks, and the room looks tons better without the awful texture. I can handle orange peel but this stuff was just plain awful. Think brick cake icing and thats about what it was like in here. Our bedroom is the last worst case of it, the boys room isnt too bad.
Anyway hehe thanks again for stopping in to check on me!
Posted by Jessica | April 29, 2006 6:14 PM
Posted on April 29, 2006 18:14
