The work on the storage room by my contractor’s employees is completed, y’all! They acquired the previous concrete board and subfloor up and put in the brand new subfloor. And yesterday, they completed up the drywall. So this venture is now formally again in my fingers to complete up.
It all the time shocks me just a little bit to see a room with drywall after I’ve seen it day after day with no drywall on the partitions or ceiling. It appears a lot smaller as soon as the drywall is up. But it surely’s loads of room for the aim of a storage room.
I’ve to think about that they have been questioning about my placement of a number of the electrical retailers, though they didn’t say something to me about them. On the wall the place the cupboards will go, I positioned an outlet as excessive as I might put it on the wall. This shall be used for the lights that I plan to make use of both in or on the cupboards. I nonetheless haven’t determined 100% which lighting I wish to use, however no less than I’ve a spot to plug them that received’t be hidden behind the cupboards.
I put an outlet at regular peak on every of the opposite two partitions. This one shall be used for charging Matt’s electrical wheelchair.
I moved the sunshine switches to the opposite facet of the door in order that I wouldn’t should work the switches into or across the cupboards on the opposite facet. However I needed to put the field just a little additional over than I wished due to studs in the best way. And since it is a load-bearing wall, I didn’t wish to mess with transferring studs. However this shall be high-quality. I preserve reminding myself it’s only a storage room.
After which I put one other outlet up excessive on this facet of the door the place the cupboards will go as a result of our router will go on the highest shelf of the cupboard subsequent to this wall, so the outlet and the field for the cable (I do not know what that’s known as) will come by means of the facet of the cupboard in order that the router may be plugged in and unplugged simply and be related to the web.
So now this room is prepared for flooring, cupboards, paint, wallpaper, and the whole lot else. I’m so excited to lastly be at this level within the venture!
In different information, I began enjoying round with the air-dry clay that arrived this week to give you my closing concept for the eating room chandelier. I had initially considered doing leaves for the chandelier, however I bumped into an issue with that. The leaves themselves have been pretty eay to make, however the issue is that they’re not thick sufficient to drill a gap ultimately to connect to the metallic rods on the chandelier.
And if I make the leaves thick sufficient for a gap that huge, they received’t appear to be leaves anymore.
I had this concept of wrapping actually skinny gold wire across the metallic rods, after which attaching the leaf to the wire as an alternative of the rod.
That in all probability would have labored, however general, I didn’t love the concept.
So I made a decision to alter my plan fully and go along with flowers as an alternative of leaves. However I don’t need this chandelier to look something just like the one I made for my closet. The flowers on the closet chandelier have been huge with a great deal of petals, and each required fairly a little bit of clay. I have to make 135 flowers for this chandelier, so I wanted one thing a lot smaller. After doing a little bit of looking out, I got here throughout this chandelier from Lamps Plus. Whereas I don’t like the form of the chandelier itself, I do love these dainty little flowers.
After all, I’m working with clay and never glass, however I used that form as my inspiration. It took me plenty of tries to get it proper and get the flowers constant, however I feel I lastly acquired the approach down.
I’m nonetheless undecided if that is precisely how the ultimate flowers will look, but it surely’s undoubtedly shut. I’d wish to make simply a few tweaks to it earlier than I’m going full scale with my manufacturing of all 135 flowers.
However general, I actually like these tiny little flowers. They usually’re very fast and straightforward to make, which is a giant bonus since I want so a lot of them.
And since there’s an entire lot extra clay on the base, these shall be very straightforward to connect to the rods on the chandelier.
Now my largest challenge shall be deciding what I wish to work on this weekend. 😀 I went from an entire week of feeling like I couldn’t progress on both space. I used to be ready for others to do work on the storage room, and I used to be ready on myself to make selections on the eating room. Now each areas are vast open for me to maneuver ahead, and I really feel like there are about ten completely different tasks I wish to work on . So we’ll see what conjures up me probably the most and what I really feel probably the most impressed to work on, and I’ll present y’all my progress on no matter that could be on Monday!
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and enhance the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You’ll be able to study extra about me right here.
