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rfect touch posted in house projects 7 comments updating plank ceilings july 20 2013 we had one bedroom in our house we had never painted yep sadly it was still as it was on the day we closed in december 2000 the room directly above the living room overlooks the backyard and features the exposed brick chimney for the woodstove leaving the chimney exposed adds a rustic touch but more importantly when the woodstove is burning the chimney throws a little heat adding some extra warmth to our cold new england house there was a problem though the chimney had a leak and the leak damaged and continued to damage the drywall ceiling we d tried several different ways to address the leak new flashing our roofer added more asphalt sealer around the chimney roof joint a mason came and replaced the first course of bricks all to no avail finally in spring 2011 we had supaflu come and retrofit a new chimney liner and that stopped the leak at last we could paint someday fast forward to the present and taa daa we are finally painting first we had to come to some agreement about what to do about the plank ceilings the bedrooms in our 1 1 2 story cape are all tucked under the eaves of the house with cozy sloped ceilings the two bedrooms in the main part of the house had knotty pine tongue and groove planking on the slopped portion of the ceilings which had been left unfinished since installation over the years it had darkened considerably and on one wall we had some water stains from the chimney leak i felt like it made the rooms dark and cramped but dan liked the natural wood we hemmed and hawed and finally dan agreed to try whitewashing the planking with white stain for the paint we picked out a lighter shade of yellowy green called independent gold wow what a difference a simple coat of white oil based stain lifted the ceilings and made the room appear significantly larger and brighter first we treated the water stains with oxyclean which lightened the stains considerably then sanded using our random orbital sander attached to the shop vacuum to remove dust and dirt and open the pores of the wood finally we gave the planks a thorough vacuuming to remove any residual dust then fans in the window for ventilation we stained the old wood just drank up the stain we did not even have to wipe it off the stain needed a couple of days to thoroughly dry then we finished with 1 coat of polyurethane in a satin finish it should have a second coat but i moved on to other tasks namely removing the hideous wall paper and border ugh i understand at some levels the desire to wallpaper rooms but after removing it from walls over a number of years i can t foresee a day when i will decide to add wallpaper but i digress once the wallpaper was off we got to the fun part painting more on that in part deux in the meantime i ll leave you a sneak peak of the new color posted in house projects 2 comments retrofitting lighting adding leds july 19 2013 we have had some seriously ugly and dated lighting in our dining room it was so ugly that two of the lamps tried to run away to hide one got as far as the laundry room but the other only made it a few feet away from the mother fixture operated by a different switch on another circuit why i don t know with a new paint job and reconfiguring this room a little more on that later the time had come to replace the lighting which is harder than it should be lighting seems to fall into 2 categories inexpensive and unattractive or beautiful and wildly expensive naturally i have an eye for the wildly expensive we thought we d replace the runaway light with a recessed can light to minimize the appearance either that or make it go away all together wandering the aisles of home depot we came across a knowledgeable employee who introduced us to what we eventually selected a retrofit led can light this light is an engineering marvel it is a shallow fixture designed for supremely easy installation into a standard 4 inch junction box no cutting a bigger hole and all the rigmarole that comes with retrofitting a can light the light is generated by a computer chip via the four tiny yellow diodes seen on the open lamp in the photo on the right the computer chip is beneath protected by the lamp housing the plastic light diffusing lens snaps back into place following installation it is amazingly bright of course in our situation it wasn t quite that easy because it never is the junction boxes in our dining room were 3 inch boxes sigh this required swapping them out for modern 4 inch boxes not difficult just another step in what was supposed to be an easy task ah well that s how it usually goes while dan replaced the box i painted the lights to match the new ceiling color soon enough the runaway was replaced the other lamp by the doors to the dining room kitchen and the laundry room is also in but we still need to do a little ceiling repair to smooth out the ceiling where the old light fixture was that fixture was not my favorite style but ok just a little big for the space and several times suffered close calls with destruction when we were moving furniture lumber etc so that light moved upstairs to a bedroom which needed an update finally we replaced the main light fixture this was the difficult one we looked and looked but could not find something we liked for less than 350 way over budget finally dan had a brilliant idea we selected a basic boob light and around it we ll stencil a subtle mariner s compass the boob light will become the center of the compass and will look far less boobish we both love the idea so for now the boob light is installed sans stencil i hope we ll get to it soon overall i m really pleased the led lights use far far less energy than conventional incandescent bulbs the can lights really are not very noticeable in the ceiling yet we have light when we need it the light quality is not the same even with warm led bulbs it is a little too reminiscent of the dreadful compact fluorescent bulbs of a few years ago that made us all look ill but for lights that are primarily used for a purpose rather than general lighting they work i would highly recommend the led fixture for anyone looking to replace traditional lighting with can lights these are terrific posted in life projects 3 comments painted polyed and waiting july 5 2013 we painted walls are sherwin williams sassy green ceiling jersey cream and we finished the floor with bona polyurethane in a satin finish we took the radiator covers off and while they were off decided to paint them in a happy accident the green wall color is a perfect match to the color of the grape leaves on the arbor outside the big window when the sun is shining through them now we wait for the floor to cure saturday evening we can move furniture back into the room i can hardly wait in the meantime we are sanding and painting the doors to the bathroom basement and front entry it looks pretty good considering this is the first time we ve ever done a floor posted in projects 6 comments project creep june 28 2013 it all started with deciding to paint the living room and the remaining unpainted upstairs bedroom we also wanted to remove some built in shelving so of course we would need quite a bit of drywall repair including a pretty challenging repair by the chimney dan and i are not skilled at drywall work we even put a beadboard ceiling in our laundry room to avoid putting up a drywall ceiling we decided to seek professional help and asked around and found a great contractor jamie who amazingly could fit us in right away we ve always disliked the textured ceiling in the living room and it needed a lot of re taping and repairing so we opted to have jamie put up a new drywall ceiling and repair the many other little problem areas like our half finished repair from a leak in our upstairs bath jamie s work was amazing he could put joint compound up so smoothly it barely needed sanding once we dragged out all of the furniture from the living room dan commented that the floor looks awful we should sand and refinish it while the room is empty suddenly the scope of the project expanded dramatically dan was right much easier to do it now while the house is a wreck rather than make it a wreck next year and have to do all that dust containment again we rented a floor sander and in one long long day sanded the entire floor the rental place didn t have an orbital sander so we opted for a pad sander as the drum sanders were too scary we started with a 36 grit paper but soon switched to 20 grit or what felt like macadam it worked to sand off the remaining finish in the low traffic areas we then went to 36 then 60 80 and finished with 100 grit if you can rent an orbital sander that it the way to go but we made the pad sander work vacuuming frequently and changing the paper often it looks amazing it still has plenty of patina from years of living which is ok with us there are some dents and scratches and dark spots from who knows what but we love it if only we could leave it as us it even feels good underfoot alas we need to protect it from daily living so we will be re finishing with a water based low sheen polyurethane floor finish unfortunately we seem to have entered monsoon season here in maine and after a spectacular week last week we have had humid gray days since monday with rain humidity and overcast skies predicted through independence day yuk not great weather for polyurethane for now we ve covered the floor in plastic and have moved on to painting the ceiling and walls we ll even i hope add polyurethane to the never finished section of the wainscoting maybe by the time we finish that the sun will return i can hope posted in house projects 2 comments neverendingbathroomproject inches closer to completion march 24 2013 today we got the beadboard panel up on the back of the shower fixture wall made baseboard and ceiling molding for it painted them and will install by the end of the day whew dan cleverly marked the heights of all the interior framing in the wall then took photos for future reference then up went the beadboard and we closed it up i m so happy to have that done dan is working on adding an outlet in the beadboard cubby under the mirror no more plugging in the hair dryer next to the faucet gfci outlet or not that just gave me the heebie jeebies especially after i saw the episode of six feet under where the cat electrocuted her owner by knocking the hot rollers into the tub while the owner is bathing mercedes would do that if she had the chance anyway i love this new feature it might be my favorite part of the whole renovation deal we re almost done what s left you ask dan is working on re fitting the door to the frame he had to make a new piece of molding and install the strike plate so the door would latch there s a little more caulking to do then i need finish painting the door frame and the back of the door and we need to pick a new color for the other side of the door and all the doors on the first floor that s got us both stymied it needs to be a shade that looks good with all the colors we ve got going in the house when we moved in we both knew we wanted color most of the walls in the house were an uninspiring off white which did nothing to enhance the warmth and charm of the pine wainscoting so we added color and lots of it we ve got the pine wainscot very similar to this color throughout the house the living room color behr fox hollow green this image looks a but dusty to me it is a piney green shade then in the kitchen we have behr beaverwood a nice taupe shade and finally in the dining room we have this great red ralph lauren maleya red all these years later and i still love this shade we ve got furniture painted in all the above shades plus this delicious greeney blue sherwin williams teal stencil so suggestions for the doors they are currently a muddy off white tan cream shade blech i suppose one option would be to strip them but no if i had a handy staffer to tackle these jobs maybe but i think paint is the answer the question is the color i d love to hear your suggestions posted in projects 4 comments the irony march 3 2013 the tiling is complete we ve given the ceiling another coat to cover up some scrapes and i touched up a few other dings on the beadboard we cleaned cleaned and cleaned some more i m giving the wood vanity top a few more coats of polyurethane since we removed the sink and faucet for the finish work we cleaned some more at last time for the final cleaning of the shower and to drum roll please take showers ourselves hooray so why am i blogging and not showering you ask good question our furnace is cranky and we have no hot water aauugggghhhhhhhhhhh i m having an out of body alanis morrisette experience dan giving the ceiling another coat of paint i love the color name pale moon as much as the color i still need to sand the drywall patch in one spot then paint then reinstall the sink and faucet the music cabinet is moved in and already loaded with towels i m happy for the most part with how this turned out the door rubs a bit since painting sigh all this would look even better if i could take a nice hot shower i m sure news update thanks to our service plan mike from downeast energy replaced the circulator pump last night at about 7 30 i didn t enjoy a shower last night but i m happy to report that this morning we had hot water and plenty of it ahhhhhhhh posted in house projects 12 comments paint project repurposed music cabinet february 24 2013 after boxing in the vent stack in the bathroom we had a narrow little spot in the bathroom crying out to be used as storage at just 24 inches wide including the radiator running along part of the floor i wanted to find an old bookcase or cabinet that would fit in that spot to store towels ideally it would be off the floor to improve heat circulation and to provide a place to store a bathroom scale that would be accessible enough to encourage regular use hahaha while wandering around brunswick maine one day we found an old music cabinet that seemed to fit the bill it was just 20 wide 14 deep and 39 high we took it home and it was just right the right size for the space but was just too dark it had a pretty inlaid decorated door but had big scratches on the top and sides i debated for a while but ultimately decided to paint it yellow to fit with the room s color scheme dan and i cleared off the dining room table and turned it into my paint studio we covered the table with plastic and i set to work first we took the cabinet outside where i sanded it lightly then cleaned the dust off we then carried it back into the dining room and i primed and used some bin shellac sealer where the wood seemed to bleed through the primer i then used the same paint i used on the vanity but added a bit of the white trim paint to make it a slightly softer shade and avoid making it look deliberately matched more in keeping with the overal...