The Bed room Is Getting Underway!

There was a tiny little bit of progress, although. One of many principal 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 best way of the wainscoting that may go within the bed room.

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

And my contractor known as me on Saturday and stated that he was prepared to put in the door within the bed room. So he and his guys ought to be right here inside 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 joyful that he might match me into his schedule proper now on the very starting of this challenge in order that it will probably get completed ASAP after which I can get began on every part else with out having to work round and delay progress on this wall.

I additionally took a while this weekend to actually assume via the sort of wainscoting I would like within the bed room suite. I’ve two sorts of wainscoting in our home proper now. I’ve the straightforward image body molding with a chair rail within the music room, which is correct exterior the bed room suite.

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

The image body molding model of wainscoting is clearly the best and cheaper choice. And that’s truly the model I want to carry via into the bed room suite from the music room. However with that model, I run into one challenge, and that’s the best way to wrap it across the nook to the decrease a part of the door jambs on the closet. When you’ll bear 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 need to wrap round these jambs, that are 5.5 inches broad.

It will be a lot simpler to wrap these jambs in wainscoting with the decide’s paneling model of wainscoting. However I don’t know that I need to add all of that additional work and price to the entire bed room suite simply to make this one space simpler. There needs to be a approach to make the image body molding model 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 challenge (though, not an enormous challenge) is that the wainscoting within the lobby and bed room must be about three inches increased than the wainscoting within the music room. That’s the one means 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 check the wainscoting in these areas being three inches increased, and whereas the perfectionist in me doesn’t love the concept, I actually don’t assume it’s going to be an issue.

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

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

However what I’m not sure 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. When you’ve ever painted stripes on a wall, you understand how the paint leaves little ridges the place the stripes had been taped off.

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

Clearly, I’ll need to 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 via 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 direction of skipping the skim coating on all the wall areas above 35 inches and simply priming and portray these areas. It will certain save loads of time if I might do this.

And eventually, I’m 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 seemed so good and understated, and it just about disappeared into the ceiling. In actual fact, 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 eventually, I made a decision to take away the ceiling gentle within the lobby and exchange it with a recessed gentle, which may be centered.

The wiring is already there, and for the reason that new gentle shall be nearer to the swap than the present gentle, I shouldn’t even need to do any new wiring. I’ll simply minimize a brand new gap for the brand new gentle, set up it, and patch the outdated gap. That ought to be fast and simple as effectively.

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

However in case you have any expertise with grasscloth, I’d like to know what you concentrate on 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 rental days!) since I’ve put in grasscloth, so I’m undecided in any respect if these ridges would possibly present via. I are likely to doubt it, however I need to make sure. So in case you have expertise, let me know what you assume. I’d like to do as little skim coating as potential to get these partitions prepped, however I additionally need the completed end result to be good. I’m okay with skipping pointless steps that gained’t have an effect on the result. However I’m not okay with skipping steps in the event that they’re truly needed and can have an effect on the ultimate end result.