Blog series by MarkTheFiddler consisting of 3 parts so far |
Part 1: Wake up Wake up Mark, You have to do Victoria's Room!
“Huh? Wuzzat? I’m still asleep” “Victoria keeps wondering when you are going to do her room. Can’t you just do it now and get it over with?” “Yeah Babe I suppose I can.” Everything else is on hold very suddenly. Day one – I tried to take some measurements without tripping over her precious collection. I got enough actually to figure out how I’m going to handle the huge problem of storage. After work I went and picked up h...
Part 2: Getting Somewhere
All painting today. I’m tired. We are behind schedule. So what else is new? This is a sneak peak. Closet doors:
Part 3: Room Done - On to building storage.
Painting, flooring, hardware, trim is done. You may remember that I built the door trim from scratch. The shoe molding is also mine. Baseboards, I bought. The design for the simple murals started from my head but they don’t look anything like I started with. My daughter kept refining it. What’s cool is Victoria, picked all her colors, the style of the murals, the location, size color combinations etc. She made her own templates for the edges and picked which edges I used for ea...