Yesterday I added all the pretty molded part and added a little to my closet cabinets. I have to laugh at myself because you would think that after more than 30 years of diying I have a much more realistic understanding of how long these things should take, and yet it seems as if I never learn.
Before the last weekend, I thought that I could spend a few hours to add the entire form to a few hours to paint at least some of the cupboards before the end of the weekend. But here I am on Tuesday morning and I have only now attached the pretty molded part, I have not even prepared half of the cupboards, and I haven’t even started sealing. Pooh. I don’t do these huge projects regularly, so I seem to forget how long all of these different steps actually take. But maybe …Maybe just… I am ready to paint the cupboards by the end of this week.
This is just a part of a very long series of contributions to my largest built-in wardrobe and laundry combination. If you have missed the previous post, you can find this here: the walk -in wardrobe is cut out
The good news is that the entire trim and the molded part are now installed. I will probably add two more shelves, and they will also need trim. I still train these details. But when it comes to the cupboards and shelves that are currently in the room, everyone is cut out, and now I have also installed all the pretty molded parts.
Before I installed the pretty cladding, I decided to flourish the cupboards a little. I also cut 12 pieces 1 “X5” wood (which is actually 4.5 “wide) in 4.5” squares. And then I made one centimeter in the upper left side and the lower right side.
With a one-gallon color, I followed a curve between these two markings.
It looked like the curve was followed …
And then I used my band saw to cut the curve.
I repeated this 11 more times and attached these pieces with wooden glue and 2-inch 2-inch nails with wooden adhesive and 16-inch nails.
I have not added these pieces to the cupboards that flank the door because I would like to add this cupboards.I find. (I have to admit that I have this decision second, so we will see.)
I wish I could have made these pieces a little bigger, but I had to use the top shoe shelf (the shortest shelf on the right section on the right wall) to determine how big these parts could be.
I didn’t want these decorative pieces to be pushed directly against this upper shelf. I wanted to leave some space between these parts and the upper shelf, so I found that 4.5 inches were the biggest that I could do …
As soon as they were all attached and the wooden glue had time to dry, I stacked the wood filler …
While the wood filler dried, I worked on the decorative form. I did not use a normal crown shape for the upper shape building because I wanted to add a really large form, but on the left side of the room the HLK deposit is quite close to the cupboards.
I didn’t want the molded part to get near this air ventilation. To fake the appearance of a really large crown formula, I used the same trick that I used on the cupboards in my studio by using a 3.25-inch baseboard and attaching a tiny crown formula to the top. In this way it is the appearance of a large crown formula, but it is not too far from the cupboards, like a large crown formula, since most of the molded part (ie the baseboard) is flat against the top of the cupboards. The only projection is that tiny crown formation at the top.
The bonus is that this method for installing top form parts is so much easier than installing crown shapes, since the two parts are first glued together and nailed together before they are cut. Cutting is as easy as cutting baseboards. You don’t have to find out spring angles and cut them like crown strips, which can be complicated for non-pros.
Here is a better view of the upper shape. You can see that most decorative parts are actually baseboards that are flat on the top of the cupboards, and only the upper 1.5 inches are tiny crown shape that has an angle.
However, attaching the upper form was still a challenge, since the ceiling in this room is simply not flat. Oh, the joy of working in an old home where nothing is flat, square or solder! So there are areas in which the molded part directly on the ceiling and in other areas (as you can see in the corner below) in which the molded part simply does not sit on the ceiling, no matter how hard I have pushed on it.
And because I couldn’t get the long piece to sit on the ceiling, I also had to drop the piece a little on the other cabinet.
You can also see this at the other end of this wall, where there is a gap between the molded part and the ceiling.
I don’t worry about it because Caulk makes these gaps disappear in a magical way and as soon as everything is painted, it will look as perfect as in an almost 80-year-old at home everything can look.
The other side of the room was not a big problem. Most of the upper equipment on this page is against the ceiling, but I had a little problem around the closet that flanked the door. But again Caulk will take care of this problem.
And on this side I got the little flourishes sanded and prepared, but I still have to prepare the inside of the cupboards and shelves …
I also attached all the baseboards to the bottom of the cupboards.
I will also add shoe straps, but I have to have the floors reworked before I attach them.
And then the baseboards continue on the sides of the washing and dryer cabinet to tie them together and to complete the bottom of these cupboards.
And here is a look at how you wrap yourself in the cupboards that flank the door.
The left side of the room looks like the left side of the room with all the counts and molded parts …
Today I have to cut these flourishes (I am sure that they have a real name, but I don’t now do what it is) on the right side of the room and then continue with the rest of the cupboards. I also have to decide whether I want to add these two other shelves, because if I do this, this obviously has to be done while I am still in this phase of the project. I don’t want to go all this prepared, skilled and painted and then back and add two more shelves.
And I also have to decide whether I want to flank doors on the cupboards on the door. I really like what it looks like with the open shelves, and if I want to have these objects out of sight, I could always use pretty baskets to save things.
I keep thinking that at some point we will have an entire storage cabinet (the current corridor bathroom) in which I can keep everything I want to keep out of sight, and I like the consistency of having all the cupboards open in this room. I just don’t know that I want to ruin this consistency by having two cupboards with doors on them. * Sigh* I hate to be undecided in the project so late, but that’s how my mind works. I often change my opinion and make changes in the middle of the project. It doesn’t matter to me to change plans while I go with me, but I hate being undecided.
So I’ll be there again today! More grinding, more priming and hopefully I can get to seal today. And I will probably add two more shelves before the day is over.
