Memorial Day

I've been really busy over the last week or so... of course that makes it even more difficult to update this because there's more to write about.

I finished painting the front rooms of the house, but haven't put up pictures or anything yet. I'm not quite sure this is where I want to place the sofa but it'll probably stay there.

It came out pretty well - the color matches the white / green in the pillows. I'm still not sure what to do with the windows but I'm not in any hurry.



As usual, the green color of the sofa doesn't come out. You'll have to use your imagination here.





I had to take a couple of days off to clean up and do other things...




I've spent the last few days working on enclosing the tv hole. The project started off small, but it keeps on growing. I wasn't going to add a door, but I had to take the trim and all the drywall off anyway and it's easier to do now while everything is apart. Since I was building a wall it wound up being a great opportunity to move an outlet out of what's becoming a closet and into the living room. I also fixed the bad job the previous owners did of installing the speaker wires.



Before


It took a lot longer to remove everything than I thought it would. All the corner pieces added a lot of work, and I had to cut the floor by hand.


Finished removing things, now it's time to build.


Drywall going up...


How it looks right now.

I'd normally write up a bit on how to frame and hang drywall, but there are guides all over for doing that. One thing I don't see a lot of are opinions on installing doors. This time I went with a prehung door from Lowes. These are split jamb doors and both sides of the doorway sort of come together as mating pieces. I found it far more difficult than doing it the traditional way, putting in the jamb in one piece, then hanging the door and installing the casing. The pieces are too big and awkward to manage very well on your own, and that slows everything down.

Anyway this week I'm going to finish sanding the drywall, prime and paint the entire room (of course, thanks go out to my wife who was essential in picking the best paint color). With any luck we'll be done in here by the weekend and then I can move on to a few more annoying things around the house after we finish unpacking from the move.