That Smell

Well I'm writing this while listening to a little Lynyrd Skynyrd to get me prepped for the weekend. I'm done with the plywood, its only taken me what seems like 5 years to get this far. I'm posting some shots of a few of the last details to go in. I've mounted the track for the sliding doors, finished the closets and finished all of those little pieces that tested my sanity. So tomorrow my painter friend Doug (who has helped an awful lot through this whole process he's the guy in the photos that looks like a biker or a pirate) will start prepping and sealing the birch. I'm going with two coats of sealer then two finish coats of a furniture grade lacquer. My dad and Doug found the lacquer that has a hand rubbed finish look to it, its perfect not to glossy just a nice finished hue. So if you live near me and catch a scent sorry. Or if you want to come get a little contact hi come on over.

I almost forgot Sunday Jessica and I will be attending the KC Modern bowling for Modernism event. Check out KC Modern if you want some more info, I'm sure I'll see some of you there.

Moving In!

Jessica and I were supposed to be moving in this past weekend, and as you can see that didn't happen. The project has reached 6 months and we are still a couple of months away (thank goodness for understanding landlords). So while we keep plugging away the progress appears to be going slower and slower as we get to those little details that make or break a good project.

These small details are consuming a ton of time, and pushing my patience to the limit. I'm over halfway done trimming out the windows and getting extremely close to finishing up the paneling phase of the project. I'm really pleased with the way that the windows turned out. I think they fit in rather nicely.

Hopefully this coming weekend I will be starting the closets that divide the two bedrooms. I've been working on the designs for a while now and I'm excited to get these built I think they are really going to tie the house together.

I've been busy, so here are some quick photos to show the current state of the house. This photo was taken before I installed these last four windows. They are now all in, you can see part of my kitchen cabinets. The cabinets have been delivered and hopefully I will be installing them this weekend. I would say that I'm 80% done with the wall paneling. I still have all of the smaller more time consuming pieces to put in but all of the large sheets are up in place. The paneling lightens the house up alot, its a huge improvement from the original pictures.