Fred Voorhees
10-23-2004, 6:42 PM
After spending approximately three weeks away from this project, I was eager to get back into it and get it moving once again in the right direction. This former two car garage began to be transformed this past Spring and I'm getting "itchy" now to wrap it up and begin to enjoy it.
Finally got the approval for the ventless propane fireplace this past week and went and picked it up Thursday and wanted to get the framing roughed in today. The gas company is coming on the 11th of Nov. to set the tank and run the piping into the room.
Ordered the Pergo flooring just after coming home from vacation about two weeks ago and although they told me that it would take about a month to get into the store, they called today and its in. Won't be putting it in just yet, but couldn't resist the 20% off sale.
After vacation, it was the task of wrapping the trim around the six windows. Solid red oak, as will be pretty much all of the trim. Ran into some quirky situations with the existing back wall as whoever built it used some 2X4 lumber that weren't consistent in their widths and that meant some shimming and filling in, but with some patience it came out ok.
Now will be moving on to wrapping what's left of the foundation with oak ply and the resulting rough corners will be covered with some gold aluminum outside corner moulding. Then onto the cieling. Have never done one of the Armstrong acoustical cielings that you staple up onto lathe applied directly to the existing cieling, but it shouldn't prove to be to bad. Looking forward to it. Once the cieling is in, lighting and other fixtures can go up and then I guess it will be the flooring next. Once both the floor and cieling is finished, I can wrap up pretty much all of the trim. And there will be lots of it!!! - cieling, walls, doors, floors and the bar valance. I'm thinking that after that it would be best to move on to building the bar and the various pieces of furniture that will be encorporated into the room.
Picture one below is of the days work roughing in the fireplace. You can also get a peak at one of the back wall windows that gave me some minor "fits" in fabbing them to sit right on the walls.
The front windows, complete with their oak trim are featured in the second photo. These were a breeze to trim out as this wall was the former front wall that had the two garage door openings in it. When I closed them in, I took care to use dimensionally consistent lumber and the windows sat nicely in their rough openings.
Finally got the approval for the ventless propane fireplace this past week and went and picked it up Thursday and wanted to get the framing roughed in today. The gas company is coming on the 11th of Nov. to set the tank and run the piping into the room.
Ordered the Pergo flooring just after coming home from vacation about two weeks ago and although they told me that it would take about a month to get into the store, they called today and its in. Won't be putting it in just yet, but couldn't resist the 20% off sale.
After vacation, it was the task of wrapping the trim around the six windows. Solid red oak, as will be pretty much all of the trim. Ran into some quirky situations with the existing back wall as whoever built it used some 2X4 lumber that weren't consistent in their widths and that meant some shimming and filling in, but with some patience it came out ok.
Now will be moving on to wrapping what's left of the foundation with oak ply and the resulting rough corners will be covered with some gold aluminum outside corner moulding. Then onto the cieling. Have never done one of the Armstrong acoustical cielings that you staple up onto lathe applied directly to the existing cieling, but it shouldn't prove to be to bad. Looking forward to it. Once the cieling is in, lighting and other fixtures can go up and then I guess it will be the flooring next. Once both the floor and cieling is finished, I can wrap up pretty much all of the trim. And there will be lots of it!!! - cieling, walls, doors, floors and the bar valance. I'm thinking that after that it would be best to move on to building the bar and the various pieces of furniture that will be encorporated into the room.
Picture one below is of the days work roughing in the fireplace. You can also get a peak at one of the back wall windows that gave me some minor "fits" in fabbing them to sit right on the walls.
The front windows, complete with their oak trim are featured in the second photo. These were a breeze to trim out as this wall was the former front wall that had the two garage door openings in it. When I closed them in, I took care to use dimensionally consistent lumber and the windows sat nicely in their rough openings.