A party and more tin...
Jul. 28th, 2008 09:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
acdntlpoetWe didn’t get much accomplished on the house this weekend, but what we DID do made a large impact.
After narrowly escaping house work on Saturday, Jean and I made our way out to the Kennedy School in NE Portland to celebrate a friend's birthday. Her husband had rented a room in the school (now a McMenamin's of course) and set it up with a buffet as well as Mahjong and poker tables afterward... sadly, we were both beat and had to call it a night around 9pm. We did have a great time, however, and look forward to seeing both Doug and Sunny at a Bite of Oregon in a few week's time...
Sunday I finished installing the filler panels and cornices for the tin ceiling, so all the tin is finally up. I also stained some molding to finish off the beams where they meet the wall, but realized too late that I screwed up my angled cuts and will need to buy more molding to redo them all. Sigh, I even second checked it all before cutting everything. I must have been tired when I was working on that part...
Jean then took over and started painting the previously stark-white beams. Two coats down this weekend and she'll pick up next weekend with the faux finishing part to add a wood grain texture and glaze to add some much needed depth and complete the look. Even only partly done, though, the beams are really starting to tie in the room. I hadn't realized HOW much the white beams made the room look unfinished. The two coats of brown are already a HUGE improvement. I can't wait to see how the faux finishing works :)
The link below will take you to the Renovations album on my Picasa page:
After narrowly escaping house work on Saturday, Jean and I made our way out to the Kennedy School in NE Portland to celebrate a friend's birthday. Her husband had rented a room in the school (now a McMenamin's of course) and set it up with a buffet as well as Mahjong and poker tables afterward... sadly, we were both beat and had to call it a night around 9pm. We did have a great time, however, and look forward to seeing both Doug and Sunny at a Bite of Oregon in a few week's time...
Sunday I finished installing the filler panels and cornices for the tin ceiling, so all the tin is finally up. I also stained some molding to finish off the beams where they meet the wall, but realized too late that I screwed up my angled cuts and will need to buy more molding to redo them all. Sigh, I even second checked it all before cutting everything. I must have been tired when I was working on that part...
Jean then took over and started painting the previously stark-white beams. Two coats down this weekend and she'll pick up next weekend with the faux finishing part to add a wood grain texture and glaze to add some much needed depth and complete the look. Even only partly done, though, the beams are really starting to tie in the room. I hadn't realized HOW much the white beams made the room look unfinished. The two coats of brown are already a HUGE improvement. I can't wait to see how the faux finishing works :)
The link below will take you to the Renovations album on my Picasa page:
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