I spent a number of hours yesterday getting the house fitness center cleaned up in order that I might begin engaged on this room once more and at last get it completed. Over the past a number of months, this room had been used as a storage room, workshop, and so on., whereas I used to be engaged on the grasp lavatory transform, and after I was completed with the toilet, the unfinished dwelling fitness center regarded like this…
Really, it regarded just a little worse than that. I didn’t keep in mind to take that image till after I had taken some issues out of the room. However you get the concept. It was dangerous.
I used to be decided to get the majority of it cleaned out earlier than I went to mattress final night time as a result of I didn’t wish to spend extra time immediately cleansing up. I wished to have the ability to stroll in there immediately and truly begin engaged on a challenge.
So after a number of hours of labor (with loads of breaks as a result of the job was so huge and overwhelming to me), that is what it regarded like final night time after I lastly give up round 9:30.
I’m fairly happy with my progress! 😀 And I’m very happy with the truth that I didn’t take all the instruments and provides out of this room and simply dump them in one other room. I really took the time to place all the things away as an alternative. I can really discover my instruments now!
The largest initiatives that I nonetheless have to do on this room are (1) ending all the trim, and (2) end putting in the hardwood ground within the closet space.
So far as the trim goes, the toughest a part of that challenge is completed. The entire trim is put in on all the doorways, home windows, and the one cased opening across the closet space. And so far as I can inform, all the nail holes have been crammed with wooden filler, and on a minimum of one window, the wooden filler has been sanded. So the remainder must be sanded, after which all of it must be caulked, primed and painted.
After which the closet space nonetheless wants hardwood flooring put in. The explanation it doesn’t have hardwood flooring is as a result of this space was two separate closets. One of many closets (mainly the fitting half of the closet space you see under) was for this room with a door on the fitting aspect of this wall. The opposite half (the left half of the closet space you see under) was the closet for the room on the opposite aspect of that pink wall, which is the visitor bed room (i.e., the bed room we’re at the moment utilizing as our major bed room).
You’ll be able to see on this image under how this closet space used to look with the stable wall and a door into the closet on the fitting.
So after I determined so as to add new built-in closets flanking the window within the visitor bed room…
I had our contractor drywall over the door to the closet within the visitor bed room, and open up each closets to this room with a cased opening.
After that was performed, that left me with two unusual rectangles of hardwood flooring that didn’t cowl all the new house within the closet. So I simply went forward and took all of that out, and now it must be changed.
The irritating factor is that the House Depot in my metropolis used to hold this equivalent unfinished pink oak hardwood ground in inventory, and it might match up with the unique 70+ year-old pink oak hardwood ground in our home completely.
However ever since 2020 and provide chain points hit, I haven’t seen it within the retailer, and the couple of instances I checked the web site, it wasn’t out there there, both. So I could also be compelled to go so far as I can with what I’ve readily available, after which fill in the remainder with plywood. It’s not a super answer, however for the reason that complete ground goes to be lined with this foam fitness center flooring, it’ll work.
It’ll solely be an issue if we ever resolve to take up that foam mat flooring and refinish the hardwood ground in that room. However I’ll let Future Kristi take care of that downside. 😀
For now, my speedy objectives on this room are to (1) set up the ceiling fan and the lights within the closet space, and (2) end all the trim. These two issues will go a great distance in the direction of getting this room out of the “development” section and making it really feel extra like a usable room.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and adorn the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
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