| Because I gotta post sumphim... |
I had last week off, and spent it finishing stairs in the foyer of my chateau, and adding baseboards to the remainder of my home - as well as installing cork flooring in my bathroom. In doing so I developed a new found respect for the art of finishing carpentry. I had some left over hard wood flooring, and so I decided I would use some of it in the entryway as sort of a wainscoting, upon which I would rest the molded baseboards that have been waiting these last five months for an install. The trouble is our Foyer flanges out from our living room with some pretty nasty angles, and in order to have the baseboard follow the angle of the stairs that go up into the living room, it required a compound angle cut - one which was mathematically easy to figure out, but entirely a different matter to implement given the precision of the tools at hand, the wobbly nature of walls, and the imperfections of materials at hand.
Suffice to say, I had opportunity to learn contentment, and appreciate the skill involved in doing something I had always (arrogantly) presumed was pretty simple. I must have wasted an hundred dollars worth of wood just cutting in this one angle. I would post pictures of it, but I am ashamed of how sloppy it looks.
I finally finished the rest of the house on Sunday evening, but not before entombing the whole place in a (not so fine) layer of sawdust, though I made every effort to keep the dust down.
Monday and Tuesday I was on a course, so this is the first moment I really have to update the blog, and though there are a few things of substance I should like to blog about, this is all I have time for at the moment. |
posted by Daniel @
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You are bringing back nightmares of all our DIY projects these past 2 years.
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Fine writing, carpentry...Is there no end to your vast array of skills? :-)
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You are bringing back nightmares of all our DIY projects these past 2 years.