Bunk Project Progresses Afoot

No picture to go with this posting unfortunately. Hopefully I'll get time to snap a few tonight.

I got the mattresses home Thursday night and was able to spend all day Friday working on the bunkroom project. I'm starting to find working on the house incompatible with long runs and child watching on Saturday when Brit is at school. I had “work work” to do on Sunday but Friday was a good day for projects.

We got the old light fixture that used to hang in the middle of the room (thereby ensuring that whichever way you turned your shadow would be looming over whatever you were doing) pulled out and replaced by four directional recessed lighting cans in the four corners. We also did wiring for the recessed lights in one bunk ceiling and ran more extensions. I finished putting a CDX floor down in the part of the eaves that will remain storage and put lathe strips over the insulation to keep it from falling down in the future (there is six inch bat in between the 4x4s so it always wants to spring loose), and we started getting to the fun stuff - installing the shelf boxes that Dan the contractor built in his shop and nailing up the tongue and groove pine that will line the bunk spaces and a study nook that in a previous life was a little closet.

I'm learning a ton about how to figure cuts that require multiple angles, getting more precise with measuring, etc. At the same time its more fun and relaxing to have someone with 35 years or so experience to be the one ultimately calling the shots so I don't royally screw up, and I'm learning a skill I can use in other parts of the house. Now if I can just convince the spouse that we need our own air compressor and nailer...

posted by Scott in Washington at 9:07 AM |