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.

 

A play pen for Sam

 Sam has been getting very mobile over the last month so we decided to make a play pen so he could have somewhere to hang out in that was safe. With all the house construction going on, we have lots of random chemicals and tools laying around that he loves to get into.

 It is made out of hemlock and has six sides. Not all six side pieces have to be used at once so it is variable in size.

 A jig was made to align the drill so all the holes could be drilled in the ends.
 Once all the pieces were cut, they were pegged and glued up.

 Then wooden hinges were made.

 and glued onto the sections.

 Then we had Sam test it out. It is huge! He did help us discover that going at too sharp of an angle puts too much torque on the hinges and one broke. So, we are going to switch to metal hinges.

 And here you can see the gated side and the lock to keep the door closed.

More teether fun!

 Lots of different beads colors.

 One night's batch after sanding and oiling.

 One giraffe trimmed and ready to go to it's new home.

 More cutting, sanding, painting, and gluing tonight.

 Special request - Iowa State teether

And some Texas teethers. Have had to make more of these after people saw them.

Wooden Baby Toys

 We started making wooden baby teethers for some of the parents in my mom's group and business has really taken off. We are offering basically any custom design in walnut, maple, or cherry. They are available with or without colored beads in the center.

 It has been fun doing so many custom orders and seeing what people choose for combinations.

 We started off by making Sam his very own hippo teether.

 So far we have done lots of shapes - dinosaur, shark, elephant, giraffe, hippo, cat, rabbit, turtle, frog, star, guitar, Texas, Iowa, and Wisconsin! I get new requests every day.

 We also had a request for another elephant push toy so we made one of those too.

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.