The Bedroom Is Getting Underway!

There was a tiny little bit of progress, although. One of many foremost 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 may go within the bed room.

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

And my contractor known as me on Saturday and mentioned that he was prepared to put in the door within the bed room. So he and his guys needs 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 achieved, and so completely satisfied that he may match me into his schedule proper now on the very starting of this mission in order that it may well get achieved ASAP after which I can get began on every little thing else with out having to work round and delay progress on this wall.

I additionally took a while this weekend to essentially assume by way of the sort of wainscoting I need 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 true outdoors the bed room suite.

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

The image body molding type of wainscoting is clearly the best and cheaper choice. And that’s really the type I wish to carry by way of into the bed room suite from the music room. However with that type, I run into one problem, and that’s wrap it across the nook to the decrease a part of the door jambs on the closet. In case 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 extensive.

It might be a lot simpler to wrap these jambs in wainscoting with the decide’s paneling type 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 must be a strategy to make the image body molding type 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 problem (though, not an enormous problem) is that the wainscoting within the lobby and bed room should be about three inches increased 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 the entire partitions within the lobby and bed room. I’ve tried to ascertain the wainscoting in these areas being three inches increased, and whereas the perfectionist in me doesn’t love the thought, 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 must be a particular dye lot) that was obtainable in your entire 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 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 try this, there are some repairs that should be achieved to fill in screw holes.

However what I’m not sure about is that if the entire partitions will should be skim coated. Since these stripes are painted, the tiny white stripes are literally a bit decrease than the colourful stripes. In case 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 problem 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 beneath that 35-inch mark the place the wainscoting will go or I’ll have these paint ridges displaying by way of the paint. However I believe 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 the entire wall areas above 35 inches and simply priming and portray these areas. It might positive save plenty of time if I may try this.

And eventually, 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 a complete lot much less apparent than the air return vent in our lobby. So I’m going to repeat her concept, and I believe I’ll be very proud of that.

And eventually, I made a decision to take away the ceiling gentle within the lobby and exchange it with a recessed gentle, which could be centered.

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

The door set up will take two days. They’ll do the entire prep work right this moment, and the set up the door tomorrow morning. So I don’t actually know what, if something, I’ll have the ability to do right this moment as a result of I don’t need 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 right this moment.

However if in case you have 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 rental days!) since I’ve put in grasscloth, so I’m undecided in any respect if these ridges would possibly present by way of. I are likely to doubt it, however I need to be certain. So if in case you have expertise, let me know what you assume. 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 gained’t have an effect on the result. However I’m not okay with skipping steps in the event that they’re really vital and can have an effect on the ultimate outcome.