Started putting on the color in the house. Here is the color called likeable sand. Took about 6 hours of work to slap that up on the walls. Pretty soon I will get to work on some new stuff which is always exciting.
Tomorrow, we are headed into Ashland to get the finish paint. And trim paint. Hopefully ordering trim next week as well as spraying the house on Sunday or Monday. Things are rapidly coming together. Pretty soon I am going to be cutting and painting Moldings, and bathroom trim as well as installing the cabinet bases, building shelves and sink basins. I am really looking forward to doing something that requires thinking instead of just work.
I saw this lady on the way to work on the house. Oh and between the wife and I we painted the whole house today. I had a half day so I put in about 7 hours and she helped with 2 of her own
We started painting tonight. I had estimated 10 gallons to cover the walls and ceilings for 2 coats. The meant that we would need to get darn close to everything done for the first coat. Well we were a bit shy on that one. We rolled 5 gallons of Killz2 Sealer Primer tonight. I worked with the roller on an extension, doing the ceilings, and wall tops. The wife did the lower walls.
I thought I was excited to paint. Until I started painting and then I remembered I don’t really like painting anymore than drywall. In fact I was not excited to paint I was just really really glad to be done with the drywall. In painting I found some spots that need a bit more sanding or a slap of joint compound. So I am going to finish coat one on the wall and one half that need it, sand and fill a few gouges tomorrow. If I am feeling really adventurous. I am going to do some brush edging. I forgot how much work it is running a roller on the ceilings. My shoulders are killing me. I am really hoping we can spray the color coats. Much easier. Enjoy some photos of primed walls.
I celebrated with friends over whiskey, cheap beer, and a rousing game of wiffle ball. It was a 6 to 6 tie. The game lasted 3 innings til it got too dark to play anymore. I also managed to pick up the first tick of the season. As I was sitting here typing I felt that familiar crawling feeling. I figured it was too early but a few warm days is all it takes for those buggers to wake up and start crawling around.
Spring is here.
I saw this guy fly out of the woods on the way to working on the cabin. I stopped in the middle of the road, hauled out the picture maker and snapped some photos. The photos on the left are wide shots and then I digitally zoomed in to make it easier to find the eagle.
The Northland is waking up from a long winter slumber. Deer are everywhere. Birds, frogs, racoons, saw a porcupine yesterday too. Dog thought he wanted to try that out. I told him no.
I have been playing with the GoPro a bit while working. Trying to work out the best settings. I also got the egg timer I ordered from Ikea to mount the camera on. It allows taking of panning time lapses. It is a pretty neat effect as the timer spins, you see us come and go as we are working and get a pretty good idea of the progress we have made.
I cut one at two different speeds, and then a different one in there to make for a longer video. I am also learning a bit of Adobe Premiere as I work with these videos. So like everything I do, a work in progress. It is fun messing with the video stuff though.
Here is my desk prototype in sketchup. I am really starting to like this program as I learn to use it. I took this instructable, and designed my desk. It includes a light table, since I have always wanted one. Now I can build it right into the desk.
Here is a fly through movie of the 3d model.
So not a lot to post an update about the progress is pretty boring at this point. Pretty much once you see some drywall tape, and a few taped joints they all sort of look the same.
But we are slowly making progress. The house is really humid and the premix joint compound is taking forever to dry. Going on three days for the stuff that we started with. We are also struggling with the way the drywall in the cabin was installed before we bought it. The never taped it and I can see why. They must have bought 12 foot sheets and installed them vertically, then cut the tops off and used the pieces all over the place. It is a mess. Factory seams against butt pieces, vertical and horizontal seams overlapping. So rather than taking it all down, we are just taping, a lot! There is most of a 5 gal pail of mud up so far, and over 300′ in tape and I still have the ceiling and some wall seams to do. I am going to get pretty good at feathering or we are going to have to sand a lot.
We also have the shower panels glued up and caulked. I need to get a finished picture of that up here. But I have a few more small pieces to put up after I figure out the shelf for the shower bucket. Anyways, that is about it, just working away on it pretty much every night. Enjoying some Brewers wins to keep me entertained.
Sketchup is a free 3d tool from none other than the great Google. I decided to try and learn to work with it, since it is really quite nice and I see plans drawn up in it all the time on the internet. The process was painful learning when my only other experience with 3d was autocad about 15 years ago.
Edit: It looks like Google sold sketchup to a company named Trimble. I wonder what this means for the future of the product.
This is a preliminary design of my black pipe bathroom shelf.
We finished the bathroom drywall!!!!
Had a little fun goofing off, with the new GoPro Camera. I set up a time lapse to take a photo every 60 seconds. I lost some after the battery died at the end. I am really not happy with these batteries I hope they get better after a couple full charges and discharges. An hour in time lapse mode seems really low. Good thing I got 3 of them. They also take forever to charge even in the wall wart.