The Bedroom Is Getting Underway!

There was a tiny little bit of progress, although. One of many major obstacles has now been taken care of. It’s not too terribly thrilling, however the breaker field is now moved up and out of the way in which of the wainscoting that can go within the bed room.

And he did a really neat and clear job of chopping that piece of drywall out in order that I can reuse it to patch the outlet underneath the breaker field. And it’s already an ideal match. That patch needs to be fairly fast and straightforward.

And my contractor referred to as me on Saturday and stated that he was prepared to put in the door within the bed room. So he and his guys needs to be right here throughout the hour to get began on that.

That is the door that’s going there.

I’m so excited to have this completed, and so completely happy that he may match me into his schedule proper now on the very starting of this undertaking in order that it will possibly get completed ASAP after which I can get began on every thing else with out having to work round and delay progress on this wall.

I additionally took a while this weekend to essentially suppose by means of the form of wainscoting I would like within the bed room suite. I’ve two sorts of wainscoting in our home proper now. I’ve the easy image body molding with a chair rail within the music room, which is correct outdoors the bed room suite.

After which I’ve the decide’s paneling that I put in each bogs.

The image body molding fashion of wainscoting is clearly the simplest and cheaper possibility. And that’s really the fashion I want to carry by means of into the bed room suite from the music room. However with that fashion, I run into one difficulty, and that’s how one can wrap it across the nook to the decrease a part of the door jambs on the closet. In the event you’ll keep in mind, that is the imaginative and prescient I’ve for that doorway. Ignore the beadboard. That was only a fast copy and paste to get the general imaginative and prescient of wallpaper and wainscoting. However the wainscoting and wallpaper will nonetheless must wrap round these jambs, that are 5.5 inches broad.

It could be a lot simpler to wrap these jambs in wainscoting with the decide’s paneling fashion of wainscoting. However I don’t know that I wish to add all of that further work and price to the entire bed room suite simply to make this one space simpler. There needs to be a option to make the image body molding fashion wrap round to that 5.5-inch door jamb and make it look good and completed and deliberate. I haven’t fairly figured it out, although.

One other difficulty (though, not an enormous difficulty) is that the wainscoting within the lobby and bed room should be about three inches greater than the wainscoting within the music room. That’s the one approach I can get sufficient lengths out of the wallpaper I’ve to cowl all the partitions within the lobby and bed room. I’ve tried to ascertain the wainscoting in these areas being three inches greater, and whereas the perfectionist in me doesn’t love the concept, I actually don’t suppose it’s going to be an issue.

And ordering extra wallpaper isn’t an possibility as a result of I’ve actually bought each final roll of that wallpaper (it needs to be a particular dye lot) that was accessible in the whole nation. I’ve all of them. 😀 And so long as I elevate the wainscoting three inches all through the bed room suite, I’ve simply sufficient wallpaper.

I’m additionally attempting to resolve what sort of prep work these partitions will want earlier than I set up the grasscloth. Clearly, I have to prime, and I’ll in all probability paint them teal as properly. And earlier than I do this, there are some repairs that have to be completed to fill in screw holes.

However what I’m uncertain about is that if all the partitions will have to be skim coated. Since these stripes are painted, the tiny white stripes are literally a bit decrease than the colourful stripes. In the event you’ve ever painted stripes on a wall, you know the way the paint leaves little ridges the place the stripes had been taped off.

I’ve the identical difficulty within the lobby the place I painted the horizontal stripes on the partitions.

Clearly, I’ll must skim coat the decrease elements of the partitions underneath that 35-inch mark the place the wainscoting will go or I’ll have these paint ridges exhibiting by means of the paint. However I feel the grasscloth wallpaper is thick sufficient to cover these ridges on the higher elements of the partitions, so I’m leaning in the direction of skipping the skim coating on all the wall areas above 35 inches and simply priming and portray these areas. It could positive save a variety of time if I may do this.

And at last, I’m now not involved about having this attic entry within the bed room after somebody despatched me an image of how she completed off her attic entry in a bed room. (Thanks, Valerie!)

It appeared so good and understated, and it just about disappeared into the ceiling. In reality, it was an entire lot much less apparent than the air return vent in our lobby. So I’m going to repeat her concept, and I feel I’ll be very pleased with that.

And at last, I made a decision to take away the ceiling gentle within the lobby and change it with a recessed gentle, which will be centered.

The wiring is already there, and for the reason that new gentle will likely be nearer to the swap than the present gentle, I shouldn’t even must do any new wiring. I’ll simply reduce a brand new gap for the brand new gentle, set up it, and patch the outdated gap. That needs to be fast and straightforward as properly.

The door set up will take two days. They’ll do all the prep work in the present day, and the set up the door tomorrow morning. So I don’t actually know what, if something, I’ll have the ability to do in the present day as a result of I don’t wish to get in the way in which of their work. However since they’ll be working within the bed room, maybe I can begin prepping these partitions within the lobby in the present day.

However when you’ve got any expertise with grasscloth, I’d like to know what you consider me skim coating the highest elements of the partitions. My expertise with grasscloth is fairly restricted, and it’s been so lengthy (again in our condominium days!) since I’ve put in grasscloth, so I’m unsure in any respect if these ridges may present by means of. I are likely to doubt it, however I wish to ensure. So when you’ve got expertise, let me know what you suppose. I’d like to do as little skim coating as attainable to get these partitions prepped, however I additionally need the completed outcome to be good. I’m okay with skipping pointless steps that received’t have an effect on the result. However I’m not okay with skipping steps in the event that they’re really crucial and can have an effect on the ultimate outcome.