Terry Hatfield
06-05-2007, 10:04 AM
Howdy everyone,
Well it's been quite a wild ride for this house remodel. I haven't posted anything or even read here very much as I've pretty much worked every waking moment on it since finishing the pulpit project for our church back in January. We took out about 1000 sq.ft. of carpet and 450 sq.ft. of tile and replaced most of it with Bruce engineered glue down hardwood. It is red oak and is in the natural finish. We did put new tile in front of the fireplace and in the entry ways and the kitchen. The wood floor install was done by a contractor buddy of mine from church. Man, that is ALOT of glue!!!! We also had an issue in the dining room. That room used to be the garage. We ended up having to cut out a 9'x19' chunk of the slab in front of what used to be the garage door and re-pour it to get things level enough to glue the hardwood. It was not much fun to have a hot saw and a jack hammer running in your dining room, especially in a house that basically has 1500 sq. ft. of open territory!!! :eek:
I made all new base trim and door casing for the entire main portion of the house and trimmed all the windows. It's all white oak as usual. I used my straight vertical raised panel bit to bevel the top portionof the moldings but other than that is is plain. The windows just had sheetrock returns before this. I also made a new mantle to display some of my planes. The most work for me was building all new interior doors. I still have one more to make for the master bath but that's for another time. The doors are 1 3/8" white oak with 3/4" plain sawn white oak ply panels that I cut to carefully cemter the repeats in the veneer in each door. Some material was wasted but I think it was worth it. The tops are arched to match the mission furniture I made for the living room a couple years back. The panels sit in grooves I made with the dado blade except for the arch tops. I made those grooves with a slot cutting bit in the router table. The stiles and rails are connected with mortise and loose tenon joints. I made a jig for the plunge router to make the mortises. It took a while but worked well. All of the doors are in a long narrow hallway and I figured out pretty quickly that they are very difficult to photograph so pardon the poor pics.
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I also build a new pantry wall in the dining room. There were already cabinets in this location but they were pretty sad looking indeed. HJopefully these look a bit better. These are flat panel and arch top to match the interior doors and the living room furniture. There are 16 doors and 2 drawers under the center window seat. These were made with Woodline tounge and groove bits. The stiles and rails are solid white oak and the panels are 1/4" white oak ply. I again took time to cut the plywood for maximum "look" centering the repeat in each door and trying to match one to the other as well as possible. These cabinets are 84" tall and 19'6" long. They have all adjustable shelves and will havea some pull out tryays on full extension slides as soon as I get them done and in. It took a while to get all these inset doors and drawer fronts to fit!!!!
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And here is the mantle. It is a 9' chunk of 2" thick white oak. The fireplace had a rouch cedar mantle and supports before.
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We also changed all of the hardware on the kitchen and bath cabinets and entry doors to match what we put on the new stuff. All in all I am super pleased with the result but it was a TON of work. I still have to re-trim the master bedroom and make the master bath door and finish the pull out trays in the pantry but I'm going to take a little while off before that.
Thanks for looking,
t
Well it's been quite a wild ride for this house remodel. I haven't posted anything or even read here very much as I've pretty much worked every waking moment on it since finishing the pulpit project for our church back in January. We took out about 1000 sq.ft. of carpet and 450 sq.ft. of tile and replaced most of it with Bruce engineered glue down hardwood. It is red oak and is in the natural finish. We did put new tile in front of the fireplace and in the entry ways and the kitchen. The wood floor install was done by a contractor buddy of mine from church. Man, that is ALOT of glue!!!! We also had an issue in the dining room. That room used to be the garage. We ended up having to cut out a 9'x19' chunk of the slab in front of what used to be the garage door and re-pour it to get things level enough to glue the hardwood. It was not much fun to have a hot saw and a jack hammer running in your dining room, especially in a house that basically has 1500 sq. ft. of open territory!!! :eek:
I made all new base trim and door casing for the entire main portion of the house and trimmed all the windows. It's all white oak as usual. I used my straight vertical raised panel bit to bevel the top portionof the moldings but other than that is is plain. The windows just had sheetrock returns before this. I also made a new mantle to display some of my planes. The most work for me was building all new interior doors. I still have one more to make for the master bath but that's for another time. The doors are 1 3/8" white oak with 3/4" plain sawn white oak ply panels that I cut to carefully cemter the repeats in the veneer in each door. Some material was wasted but I think it was worth it. The tops are arched to match the mission furniture I made for the living room a couple years back. The panels sit in grooves I made with the dado blade except for the arch tops. I made those grooves with a slot cutting bit in the router table. The stiles and rails are connected with mortise and loose tenon joints. I made a jig for the plunge router to make the mortises. It took a while but worked well. All of the doors are in a long narrow hallway and I figured out pretty quickly that they are very difficult to photograph so pardon the poor pics.
65854
65853
I also build a new pantry wall in the dining room. There were already cabinets in this location but they were pretty sad looking indeed. HJopefully these look a bit better. These are flat panel and arch top to match the interior doors and the living room furniture. There are 16 doors and 2 drawers under the center window seat. These were made with Woodline tounge and groove bits. The stiles and rails are solid white oak and the panels are 1/4" white oak ply. I again took time to cut the plywood for maximum "look" centering the repeat in each door and trying to match one to the other as well as possible. These cabinets are 84" tall and 19'6" long. They have all adjustable shelves and will havea some pull out tryays on full extension slides as soon as I get them done and in. It took a while to get all these inset doors and drawer fronts to fit!!!!
65850
65851
And here is the mantle. It is a 9' chunk of 2" thick white oak. The fireplace had a rouch cedar mantle and supports before.
65852
We also changed all of the hardware on the kitchen and bath cabinets and entry doors to match what we put on the new stuff. All in all I am super pleased with the result but it was a TON of work. I still have to re-trim the master bedroom and make the master bath door and finish the pull out trays in the pantry but I'm going to take a little while off before that.
Thanks for looking,
t