Master Bath Renovation Part Seven

We're in the home stretch!

To start at the beginning, go to Master Bath Renovation Part One.

So, about the crown moulding and Kreg tool.  No, it definitely did not work.  This was a horrible, horrible job for Husband.  Very frustrating.  After it was done, I told him, "Take that Kreg tool BACK!  It was absolutely worthless."  He did take it back today and it turns out that the one we got was defective...a piece missing or something like that.  So, I can't say whether the tool actually works or not.  I just know it didn't work for us.

There was one outside corner that was almost perfect (to the far right in this picture), but it took Husband an hour and a half to figure out that one piece and it was no thanks to the Kreg tool.

Here's the almost perfect corner up close and personal.

The inside corners weren't quite as difficult.  A bit of caulk fixed them right up.

But most of the corners were like this wonky catastrophe.  Nothing lined up at all, but we were at the point where we just didn't care anymore.  All I can say is, "thank goodness for caulk."  And, except for the fact that I just showed the world (or, my 60 something followers) that our corners are awful, I'm pretty sure nobody will ever notice.

 

Overall, the crown looks great.

And, I'm very excited about the farmhouse door trim.  This was easy peasy.  Just several straight cuts, nail 'em up, call 'er done.

Also, an exciting milestone...tile!  The closets are painted and I just finished grouting the tile in the closets.  Man, that was a hard job.  I started it on my own while Husband went to his welding class and I certainly bit off more than I could chew.  Thankfully, he came home earlier than usual, or I would have been there literally all night.  As it was, it took me about five hours to lay less than half of this floor. And, it was a mess.  That night, I could barely walk.  My legs were shaky and I just went to bed dirty because I couldn't even stand up in the shower.  I creaked around like a 90 year old for a couple of days afterwards.  But, when we went to finish it, working together and getting into the groove of it, the job went somewhat faster and I didn't get as fatigued.  

We still have the rest of the bathroom to tile because we're tiling in stages.  There is no way we could have gotten this done all in one go.

But...progress, right?

To continue reading about my renovation, click on Master Bath Renovation, Part Eight.

Master Bath Renovation Part Six

To start at the beginning, go to Master Bath Renovation Part One.

We're still working on the bathroom and have made a lot of progress, but it's like two steps forward, one step back.

We were having major problems getting the crown molding cut so that it would fit together.  We pretty much gave up in despair on Monday.  Husband went to Lowes and bought a Kreg Crown Pro crown moulding jig tool.  He has a Kreg jig to make pocket hole joints which he uses all the time and was happy to see that they make a jig for crown moulding.  I'll let you know how it works...when we get to that.

In the meantime, just this morning, Husband was installing the last row of shiplap plank right along the ceiling.  Each piece has to be ripped down to about a two inch strip and will cover the studs that you can see at the top in Part Five.  These will be covered by the crown moulding and we had planned not to put planks there at all, but it turned out that we need to to have something to nail the crown to.  Anyway,  I was vacuuming up the dust from sanding joint compound in our new closets.  He went down to the barn to get something and there was a skunk in there.  Harry Dog grabbed the skunk, which is unusual because he has learned to stay away from skunks.  Well, either he forgot, or he thought it was an imminent danger.  When he grabbed it, it sprayed and got all over the barn.

As this bit of excitement was going on, the power in the bathroom suddenly went off.  Husband called me from the barn to tell me about the skunk, then I told him about the power.  He thought he might have hit a wire with a nail.  So, he came back up to the house, reeking of skunk, and took a couple of planks off the wall.  Turns out, he did not hit a wire.  So, he is currently investigating the mystery cause of the power outage and I'm pretty much stalled on my closet work, because...no power.  My plan was to put the first coat of paint on today, but now, I don't know.

So, how about some fall color?

These pictures really are beautiful, but unfortunately, you can't really tell because Blogger.com doesn't seem to care that pictures aren't clear on their site.

I need to scout around for a place to move my blog.  I'm getting really tired of blurry pictures.

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