Guest Room
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we've put in some furniture and stored some of Jayden's
extra toys in our Guest Room. It is now officially
available for guests! The dresser was given to us by Kass' Aunt Myrt Rinker from a boarding house her mother in law purchased in Portland, Oregon back in the late 1920's. The bed was purchased new by Kass' paternal grandfather. |
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Finally finished, the Guest Room now sports a painted door, and the trim has been completed on the closet base. We've decided on a closet organizer much like we had in the manufactured home, rather than an armoire or dresser. Lower right a close up of the light fixture for the room. |
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| On the weekend of April 12,
2008, Rick painted the floor in the Guest Room. |
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| Over
the weekend of March 30th, 2008, we finished the painting
of all the molding trim, and even managed to sand the
floor in the Guest Room. Once we pick a color for
the floor, we can paint it and this room will be just
about done! |
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Still camera shy but Kass applies some wood hardener to a few damaged areas of the floor before painting.  |
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| On
the weekend of March 7th, Rick finished up the base
molding around the closet and swept off the floor in
preparation of painting it. We just need a 12' base
board on the back wall and then we can prime the base
molding and the floor all at once! If you look
carefully you can see the recessed light in the corner is
on! Once we finish the painting, restore the door,
and get a plate to mount the center light fixture, the
Guest Room will be completed! |
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| Sunday
January
6, 2008, Big Rick finished up the top of the closet area,
and even lined the inside ceiling with cedar as
well. The front is all faced and ready for the
molding and trim to cover it up, although we may paint the
boards first. Haven't really decided on that part
just yet. |
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| On 11-25-07 Rick framed in
the closet and put in the cedar lining. We've
decided just to make this a hanging closet area, divided
for a double bar on the left, and a single bar on the
right. |
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| After
the
second coat you can see the colors a little better. Next
will be rebuilding the built-in dresser and armoire. |
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| Alex selected a pastel pink
and green color scheme for this room based off some
bedding she picked out and ordered. Kass & her
sister in-law Janette Kirchhofer painted it on 09-16-07. |
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| At
the end of July 2007 Kass textured and primed the Guest
Room. We also tacked up the window molding and
picture rail on two of the walls. Once we pick out
wall colors we can paint! |
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 June 30th Rick finished
the sheet rock in the room and Kass mudded the new areas
while sanding the previously done areas. Almost
ready for texture and painting!
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 Above the chimney chute
has been covered.
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 The built in armoire will
go in the above area.
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| Father's
Day
weekend the Guest Room was mudded & sanded. The
closet area was left undone as the built in cabinet will
be covering that section of the room, as well as the
bottom 6 inches that will be covered by the floor molding
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| On
Saturday, June 3rd, Big Rick woke up early and started
hanging the sheetrock in the Guest Room... ALL BY
HIMSELF! Let's just say those 12 foot sheets were a
little tricky. Luckily no one and nothing was
hurt. These pics were snapped just before that small
strip along the bottom of the wall was finished. The
chimney chute will be left exposed until we get the stove
pipe run. |
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| Here
you can see the walls have been completed and the mudding
has begun. A very dramatic change from the exposed
walls of before. Now it really 'feels' like a room. |
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| Here
we've
begun insulating the exterior walls. We are leaving
the one area with plumbing undone until it passes
inspection. I could actually feel it being warmer in
here already! |
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| Here's
Kass' son Rick running wires for the electrical in the
Guest Room on 9-10-2006. He's wiring the entire 2nd
floor for electric, telephone, TV and DSL. A very
handy guy!!! |
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We hired Mitch who is known hereabouts as The Sashman. No, he doesn't wear a cape, but he does wield a gun, a heat gun in this case, and with that and other tools he & his wife Gail lovingly restore old windows to a near original state! We had them restore the two windows in the Guest Room as it's on the weather side of the house and in the most need of immediate repair. After they were done, we could open them with one finger, when hours before you could hardly budge them with both hands! |
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Over the Memorial Day
weekend we removed the final remnants of the bearing
wall between the Master Bedroom and the Guest Room,
rebuilt the bearing wall, and replaced the damaged
flooring. Upper left Kass removes the last of the
lathe and plaster, upper right the replaced flooring is
in, left and right the newly built bearing wall with a
space for the chimney to Kassandra's grandmother's wood
cook stove.
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Here you can see much of
the Guest Room cleaned out. The cabinet that was
to the right of the door has been removed, and the
remaining walls and ceiling removed as well. The
vent in the pictures to the left has since been removed
as well. In the upper right you can see the
storage space accessable through the closet door in the
Master Bedroom.
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| Jayden took this picture
(our 4-year old son) of Kass removing the built in
cabinet. It was too far gone from water damage to
save. |
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bedroom has a built-in hutch with drawers. Not sure
if it will be repairable yet. |
Damage
from the leaking roof just above the cabinet. |
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| A look
down where the old chimney vent went through the room. |
Possibly
some
floor damage in here as well. Appears sound and the
window opens. |
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| Minor
cracks in the plaster, but still solid. |
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