Laundry Room Progress

Work has slowly been progressing on the back laundry room. Trim was added around both of the doors.

All of the trim was given a coat of primer paint.

Blocks were installed around the room where the wall meet the ceiling to support the installation of the crown molding.

The existing back door had a dog door cut into it so we went through the trouble of putting in a new door. My first hopeful thought would be that I could hang the new doors on those hinges but of course I had to replace the whole frame. The new one has divided panes instead of the stained glass piece.

Paint was put on all of the closet parts before putting everything back in. You can also see that the crown molding has been put up.

A new trim piece was put up as a header on both of the doors. The tape is holding the endcaps in place while their glue sets. You can also see in this picture that we have been able to get some paint on the crown molding and the new back door.

 

Laundry Room Progress

Kristen has been working on getting things caulked, the nail holes filled and a first coat of paint on things. Because the wood on the wainscoting is a knotty pine we are putting on coat of a sealing primer before the trim paint. Here you can see some of the nail holes filled prior to sanding, priming and painting.

Here are the shelves removed and painted.

Here you can see some of the wainscoting with the first coat of paint on. We still need to get the joint compound up on the walls and the texture put on.

Next up is getting some wainscoting on the last wall. The first step is to cut out strips from the wall to create a nailing strip for the wainscoting. I used to cut things out like this with the utility knife, now I use a small circular saw with the depth set at 1/2", this makes a much cleaner and quicker cut.

 

Once the strip was removed it was replaced with 1/2" plywood that will act as the nailing surface for the smaller wainscoting panels. You can also see the first small piece of chair rail that is placed on the wall.

Here the baseboard and baseboard cap has been added as well as the wainscoting and chair rail on the last wall in the room.

Here is a view of the other end of the wall. The trim around the door has been started but there is still some work that needs to be done on the furnace side as well at the header at the top of the door. I will work to get the small trim pieces complete between the door trim and the wall before the weekend.

The shelves in the laundry are installed

In the space between the furnace and the hot water heater there is some shelving. Unlike other places in the house we did non-movable shelving here because you have to be able easily take it out and remove both the left and right side of the closet for access. Some brackets were cut and placed under each shelf.

If you look closely just below the center shelf is the joint between the upper and lower access panels. There are four bolts that hold each panel in place.

Here are the finished shelves tucked beside the washer and dryer. They should be pretty useful in this room.

Trim around window, under stairs, top of doors

We put some more of the trim up around many of the windows, doors and stairs. The first pictures show the trim that was placed along the bottom of the existing stair trim. We still need to come back in with some of the wall paint.

 

This trim took a little longer because it had to be machined to match the existing trim on the bottom of the windows. These pictures show the trim on the bottom of the new kitchen windows.

Some of the doors also needed some new trim added to their tops. This was milled on the table saw and router table to match the houses original trim.

Trim and sheetrock around windows

Over the last two weekends Kristen and I have been putting in drywall and trim around the new windows. This is a picture of the window sill. It is rather complicated because it is scribed to go in and out around all of the posts.

 

This is what it looks like once it is installed.

Next up came some patching in of the drywall all around the opening.

Kristen also decided that since we had the wall open we should put in some lights over the sink. You can see the holes in the ceiling with the wires hanging down.

A little joint compound and tape.

 

The trim pieces were then put in place in between and on both sides of the windows. Yes, we also got a couple days of snow..

The top trim piece was then put in place and Kristen painted up the wall and ceiling.


There is a little more sanding that needs to be done on the trim and then that can be painted. There is a trim crown that will have to be made and attached but I think that will come a little ways down the line. There will also be a piece that will go under the window sill but we will wait on that until we get the cabinets built so we can determine how plumb everything looks.