{"id":21902,"date":"2010-10-02T16:02:08","date_gmt":"2010-10-02T23:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=9478"},"modified":"2016-09-16T18:43:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T15:43:32","slug":"prepping-the-dressing-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/prepping-the-dressing-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Prepping the Dressing Room"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s big project is to get the dressing room<\/a> ready for painting. I had some decisions to make and chose to not paint, in addition to all the ‘oak’-style cabinetry:<\/p>\n

-the trim since I’m not happy with it (weird angles, remember?);<\/p>\n

-the door into the toilet room and the pocket door;<\/p>\n

-the wardrobe doors.<\/p>\n

First off was to remove the last super ugly towel holder as well as a hook that has not been useful since I installed the cloth dresser<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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the white things underneath are Command hanging strips that held up a picture that will be going right back in that spot.<\/p><\/div>\n

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At some point in the last two years, a piece of wall trim covering a corner was broken. I removed the whole thing and debated how to fix it. The obvious solution was to get a piece of 90 degree wooden trim, but the rough edge that needed to be covered didn’t seem that bad. I decided to try filling it with wall repair compound. I have a small bucket of it, more than I’ll ever get through before it goes dry, so it’s a cheap experiment.<\/p>\n

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in progress<\/p><\/div>\n

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after<\/p><\/div>\n

Finally, it was time to do away with the hideous cloth-covered pocket door lintel:<\/p>\n

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*shudder*<\/p><\/div>\n

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That\\’s it?! I\\’ve been living with this eyesore for two years and all it was hiding was a few screw holes?!<\/p><\/div>\n

When I last examined the lintel, I thought it was glued on. Turns out, fabric was glued to a piece of cardboard that was screwed to the lintel. Don’t ask me why; the non-cloth covered version would have looked a million times nicer! Unfortunately, the lintel is made of a cardboard-type material, so the screws created protrusions that are impossible to sand flat. I did the best I could, then filled the holes with wall compound.<\/p>\n

Once the wall compound dries and I can sand it, I’ll wash the walls with TSP, then start taping. I should be able to prime tomorrow and then paint on Monday, provided the paint looks as good on the wall as it does on the can.<\/p>\n

Before anyone asks, how am I going to paint the wall to which I secured the cloth dresser<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Remove drawers, then lift and clamp:<\/p>\n

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Today’s big project is to get the dressing room ready for painting. I had some decisions to make and chose to not paint, in addition to all the ‘oak’-style cabinetry: -the trim since I’m not happy with it (weird angles, remember?); -the door into the toilet room and the pocket door; -the wardrobe doors. First […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1442,632,6,635,1283,5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britishcolumbia","category-canada","category-homemaking","category-north-america","category-osoyoos-bc","category-rving","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}