This weekend saw the addition of a new color to the Lockardugan palette, and the beginning of a shop class project.
All of the baseboards have been pulled out (with the exception of the one behind the radiator) and walls have been patched. At some point I’ll get the time to run wiring and fabricate new baseboards (and we’ll get the money to have them hooked up), and we can close up the walls. In the meantime, I started building a frame around our shitty looking fireplace and tacking up cardboard to block out how large the cover will be.
I’m going to follow the pseudo-Federalist/Colonial woodworking in the rest of the house and keep the cover as simple as possible. When it’s done, the exposed brick will get painted with hi-temp flat black and the wood will get painted with the gloss white we have on the rest of the woodwork.
This is the living room wall after two coats of mud, a coat of Kilz, and a coat of white paint. Go to Flickr for the full set-I’ll be posting all of these on the houseblog when we get back from Annapolis this afternoon.
Here’s the living room with all the edges cut in, which makes a drastic difference. He got everything except the corners and under the radiators, which he’ll do by hand. Today he’s going to finish the hand work and then start on the stair treads before staining.
Here’s the living room floor, looking toward the front of the house, the morning before it was sanded.