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If you were paying attention the last three months, you probably noticed Rob’s winter beard… Well today’s post is all about the spring cleaning!
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This is the guy who installs our door hardware…
Done and done. Our office has an eastern shore traditional sock burning tomorrow and the guys are all shaving their beards in honor of spring. Ahhh, no beard tan lines happening here:
Well we now have locksets on all the upstairs doors! Even the bathroom.
Here is the bathroom at the beginning of the evening:
Once I prepped the door and chiseled out the strike plate, I typically paint the inside of the strike hole black to clean it up.
And all done:
Unlike all the rest of the door hardware on this floor, we went with brushed nickel to correspond with the bathroom finishes.
After work today we went on an ICA behind the scenes tour of the Union League and then back home to work on the house… The league has a fascinating history and a great club house (which is also only a few years older then our house … 1865 vs. 1872)! Look it up some day if you have time.
So back to our odds and ends to finish up the 2nd floor.
The inside of the air return in the hall was spray painted black for a consistent look,
And our salvaged and refinished grille finally installed. The finish works well with the ceiling and light fixture colors.
Kelly also touched up the polyurethane on the floor in both bedrooms and the hall.
This is where we patched in and refinished the floor when we moved the bedroom door location to add the closets. You would never know…
In addition we did some more paint touch-ups, reinstalled the smoke detectors, and lastly installed new hooks. The bathroom and our bedroom got these handy and clean line fold down hooks. When not in use they are very discrete and almost go away.
Here was a new cute elephant hook for Kelly’s purse in our closet.
At this rate we may even be able to set up our guest bed tomorrow night.
The light is wired up, plastic’s off and it’s & d-o-n-e:
From below. Check!
In other news, flowers:
Today we jumped back into the shallow end of the renovation crazy pool, by doing a little organizing, and painting.
Rob took on the little bedroom window – I had painted the trim weeks ago but it had been too cold to paint the window:
Luckily the new sashes are of the tilt in/ lift out variety so it made the job a little easier. One of the sashes:
Back in after two coats. Blue tape = touch up areas.
Meanwhile I was busy filling some trim and painting the final coats on the bedroom and bathroom doors, to ready them for hardware :
Hopefully this will be the beginning of the end of the 2nd floor {bedroom/ closet/ hall/ bathroom} work!
I haven’t been posting because we’re both under the weather so the past few days have been less than productive… Between a back injury and a serious cold, a lot of tissues and pills and naps and simple warm meals have been consumed while listening to jazz- and that’s about it. (Although last night Rob made us falafel!)
As I was taking that, I realized my nails match our tile, sort of:
Speaking of shades of blues, we got a new set of fluffy bathroom towels a month ago and finally got around to washing them/ hanging them up:
Can’t end on towels so here’s some Orange – in honor of taking our vitamin C:
Hopefully we’ll be back to our riveting posts about painting soon enough!
Ladies* and Gentlemen, may we present…
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Our bathroom door:
This is the door we added height and width to, so the next step was to route out the hinges in our living room workshop. This is way clean, btw:
Perfect. Now screw in the hinges:
Then route the door frame for those hinges:
Hinges Meet Door, Hinges Meet Frame:
There may be some finishing touches (paint, knob, lock, handle-side stop, blah) but who cares about all of that if your rebuilt door is swinging on awesome hinges?
*aka Laura of Our Beech House
We found these lovely hinges at Olde Good Things in Scranton, after digging thru their piles and buckets of hardware. They’re definitely different from all the other hinges in our house, but they’re so cool so we decided to use them on our bathroom door*. First they needed some steel wool and then it was time for spray paint action:
The second set is original to 1900′s reno, but unfortunately these copper plated hinges, which I stripped in the crock pot, wouldn’t clean up as well as their earlier brethren. These are slated for re- installation at the bedroom door. So we decided to paint them too:
Only the best periodicals and boxes were selected as drop cloths. Clearly Black Friday 2011 was all about… manicures?
Ready for their new life on Madison Square:
All ready to go:
*That’s right, we’re actually going to install a door!
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