Y’all, the flooring are completed!! Oh my goodness, this looks like I simply cleared a big hurdle. What a aid! I imply, I cleared a hurdle, but it surely’s a hurdle on the very starting of a really lengthy race. However I’m relieved, nonetheless.
Right here’s the ultimate consequence.
The humorous factor is that, in particular person and with naked ft strolling throughout the flooring, I can inform a big distinction between the flooring earlier than sanding (i.e, the flooring that simply had two coats of the stain/polyurethane combination) and the flooring now after they’ve been calmly sanded and polyurethaned with the ultimate clear coat of poly. These flooring are very clean now and really feel buttery mushy underfoot. However in photos, there’s actually no distinction.
Right here’s the ground with the 2 coats of polyurethane/stain combination on the left, and the completed ground after sanding and including that remaining coat of polyurethane on the correct. It’s arduous to inform a distinction in photos, proper?
So I suppose y’all will simply should take my phrase for it. The distinction in the way it feels underfoot is critical.
I believed that the sheen is likely to be a bit much less after that remaining coat of satin polyurethane, however there’s not likely a big distinction. Sadly. The flooring are reflecting every part — the striped partitions, the black wall, the lights, and every part else.
That’s one of many most important causes I don’t like shiny finishes. The sheen distorts the true shade as a result of it displays issues round it. And in addition, the shinier the sheen, the extra it reveals imperfections.
And there are many imperfections, primarily in the way in which of animal fur and my hair getting caught within the polyurethane. I attempted to catch as many as attainable and get them out after I noticed them, however when I’ve a 100-pound canine who sheds the equal of a chihuahua about as soon as every week, it’s nearly unattainable to catch all of them. And I vacuumed and swept twice earlier than placing that final coat of poly on the flooring. Nonetheless, it’s unattainable to eliminate all of them.
However hopefully, for the reason that flooring are darkish, and since nobody else goes to scrutinize my flooring the way in which I do, nobody else will discover these few Cooper hairs which can be trapped in our ground no less than for the following decade or two. 😀 General, I’m so happy with how the flooring turned out.
And at last, right here’s a take a look at the closet — the room with little or no gentle proper now.
I’m nonetheless deciding what sort of lighting I need to add to this room, however the completed room shall be a lot brighter than it’s proper now.
However the ground is completed, and now it’s on to the enjoyable stuff!
And that brings me to the closet. As y’all know, I need to consider my closet first as a result of my present lack of a closet is the factor that’s affecting my life essentially the most proper now. Matt and I are doing simply tremendous sleeping within the breakfast room. However what’s negatively affecting my life and peace of thoughts proper now’s having all of my stuff unfold out over the home. Our toilet is at one finish of the home, my garments are within the sunroom, my footwear and purses are in my studio.
Plus, there’s the truth that I haven’t had a working dryer for the reason that center of December when the contractor unplugged my dryer in order that he may pull that wire (dryers require a 220-outlet and bigger wiring than most every part else) out of the sunroom and put it within the new location. So one in every of my first priorities, as soon as I really feel just like the flooring have had sufficient time to dry to the purpose that I gained’t mess them up, shall be to get my washer and dryer of their new places. (Don’t fear. The flooring shall be coated.)
So no less than for now, my closet shall be my precedence. I’ll take a break right here and there and do a mission for the bed room and lobby, however I hope to get the closet carried out as quickly as attainable. And that brings me to yesterday and my planning for the closet.
I sat down at my desk to determine my buy listing and reduce listing for the closet, and I acquired hung up on one explicit element that would have a fairly important influence on the general value of the closet. That element is the cupboard depth. All this time, I’ve been planning on constructing the cupboards 20 inches deep. That’s the depth that’s proven right here. The entire cupboards on the perimeter of the room are 20 inches deep, and the three sections on both sides wall are 46 inches huge.
But when I make one small change, these cupboards would require considerably much less plywood to construct, which is able to save me fairly a bit of cash. If I do 20-inch-deep cupboards, I can solely get two items out of 1 sheet of plywood. But when I modify the depth to 16 inches, I can get three items out of 1 sheet of plywood. Plywood is fairly costly lately, in order that one change can add as much as fairly a saving.
I do know this can be a small element, but it surely’s a element that makes an enormous distinction. The hangers I exploit are 17.5 inches huge, and that’s with out having an article of clothes on it.
It’s quite common for closet cupboards to be 14 to 16 inches deep, which signifies that the hanging garments stick out previous the frames of the cupboards. In truth, I’d say that that is the most typical depth that you just see if you scroll via photos of walk-in closets.
That’s what I see essentially the most after I scroll via photos of closets. And actually, that depth would work out higher, and makes a complete lot extra sense, for the aspect of the closet that shall be largely cabinets. It makes good sense for footwear, purses, and folded garments to be on cabinets which can be 16 inches deep fairly than 20 inches deep. And I’m planning on one entire aspect of the closet to be nothing however cabinets and drawers. These drawers are huge, so there’s no want for them to be actually deep.
However the one factor that I preserve going again to is the concept I’ll, in some unspecified time in the future sooner or later, need to add doorways to the cupboards if I discover that mud is an issue. I actually can’t think about myself wanting doorways on every part, however I type of reside in that “what if“. If I make the cupboards 16 inches deep for hanging garments, that guidelines out the potential of ever with the ability to put doorways on these cupboards.
I do know it’s a small element, but it surely’s these particulars that make a distinction. And it’s these particulars that I regularly get caught on. So you’ll be able to inform me your ideas on that. Ought to I am going with the j16-inch depth and save a bundle of cash? Or ought to I keep on with the 20-inch depth for the chance (which actually does appear slim, if I’m being trustworthy) of placing doorways on the cupboards sooner or later? *Sigh* As soon as I make this determination, I’m able to make my remaining listing and buy the entire provides to get this room began!
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Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and embellish the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You may be taught extra about me right here.
