The Sun Room…soon to be my art studio…was on the agenda this again this weekend.
Seems we’re having guests for the Arts Festival *NEXT* weekend and needed two operable guest rooms. “Operable” here means a place to sleep, a bit of privacy, and most important…air-conditioning so the guests can actually sleep, as opposed to simply bursting into flames.
Well, I’ve not installed the new AC system yet, and the sunroom is one of only three rooms with a working window unit.
So of course, we had torn it up as part of the remodel. Sigh.
Time to get cracking!
Y'all recall this picture...complete with pepto-bismal color trim?
We removed the door on the left…and needed to relocate the door on the right to the center of the space it comes from (our utility room)
Moving doors around
So…wall in the way
Wall in the way
Wall goes down
Wall goes down
Wall goes back up:
Wall goes back up
Complete with beadboard…and a door with transom window…centered in the utility room (so we can have cabinetry on both sides of the utility)
New wall
New Door
LOTS of work to accomplish this over the weekend.
Let’s see….
a. Fixed air conditioner!
1. crawled around under house with 5 cast iron house jacks getting the area where the wall is going level.
2. Removed the old plumbing for the second kitchen (now the utility room) sink. Removed and capped hot, cold, and drain. That’s a feat in and of itself just because it’s old galvanized iron pipe and you never know whether it will unscrew or break at the joint (broke, thrice). Oh, and found some lead pipe too…just for entertainment’s sake! Yep, eventually it’s all going to be replaced, but we are using part of it for now.
3. Removed 1 gas jet. Relocated another.
4. Built and beadboarded wall.
5. Installed door frame.
6. Went in search of door to fit door-frame (yah, uh, maybe should have gone and done that BEFORE installing the door frame ). Side-note: You know you’re an old house owner if: You have 17 extra doors, and none of them fit any of the door-frames that are missing doors in your house!
7. Found THE door! WooHoo! Installed door. Ordered glass.
8. Found transom window. WooHoo! Ordered more glass.
9. Cleaned up 8000 nails, dust, staples, iron pipe leavings etc.
We didn’t get to the wiring or the paint…but they can wait till after this weekend.
CUAgain,
Daniel Meyer
