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<\/a><\/p>\nAnd, so, this is what the loft looked like, with a piece of wall paneling covering it (explaining the discolouration) at about four this afternoon:<\/p>\n
The paneling is a 3′ x 7′ sheet that costs $10. I had the wood guy cut it in two so I’d have a piece 3’x5′, roughly the size of the wall I need to cover, and a smaller piece for another project.<\/p>\n If this was summer time, or at least a dry winter, I would have pulled out that window and installed the paneling properly under it, but it’s not warm and dry, so I decided to just glue new paneling over what’s there. I wanted to put it in as one piece.<\/p>\n First thing, was to get that angled bit on the left side. I took a bunch of measurements and wound up with this:<\/p>\n I used a very sharp knife and a straight edge to score the paneling and then snapped it neatly. The end result was a piece that was square at one end, pointy at the other, and sized to overlap the window, like so:<\/p>\n Math, especially geometry, is not my strong suit, so I am most impressed that I got the angles in perfectly!<\/p>\n Next, I had to figure out how to get an outline for the window. Oh, glue!<\/p>\n Which gave me a pattern on the back of the paneling:<\/p>\n That worked quite well, but I could have used a bit more guidance on the bottom since I ended up with a gap between the paneling and the window. I filled it in with scraps and plastered over it; it’ll look fine once painted.<\/p>\n I glued the paneling in place and moved on to filling in the wall bit at the front:<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n