The Ultimate Residence Fitness center Replace (A New-To-Me End, A Helpful Software, and a Ineffective Gap)

Y’all. I do know what you’re pondering. “This room nonetheless isn’t completed?!” I’m proper there with you. I’m pissed off. However as of immediately, the one two issues left to do are to (1) contact up the paint on the ceiling, and (2) iron and hold the curtains. Nicely, that’s not precisely true, as a result of I created yet one more undertaking for myself, and it’s an actual supply of frustration for me. However extra on that in a minute. First, let me share two helpful bits of data with you.

The primary bit of data is that I attempted Danish oil for the primary time this weekend, and I’m an enormous fan! I by no means would have thought to make use of it besides {that a} small bottle of Danish oil got here with my WaterRower, which is made out of walnut. My WaterRower been sitting on this room ever since I received it and put it collectively (possibly a 12 months now?), so it was in right here through the grasp toilet transform as I used to be utilizing this room as my workshop, and creating every kind of dusty messes in right here.

So after that abuse, the wooden on the WaterRower was trying very dusty and dry. So after giving it a very good cleansing to take away all the mud, I received out the tiny bottle of Danish oil that got here with it and begin making use of it to the wooden. That tiny bottle didn’t go very far, so I headed to Residence Depot and picked up a container of Watco Danish Oil in Darkish Walnut.

I simply utilized it with a paper towel, and it leaves such a stunning end! Danish oil dries to a tough end in about six hours. It’s very straightforward to make use of — wipe on with a fabric, wipe off the surplus, let it dry. That’s it.

I actually didn’t have any doubt that it will make the (actual) walnut look lovely, however I questioned the way it would possibly work on cheaper wooden that’s stained in a walnut colour. So I made a decision to attempt it on the bars of the Swedish ladder. I’m undecided what sort of wooden these are product of. I don’t assume it’s pine, however it’s some form of very mild white wooden that I stained with a Particular Walnut stain. The Danish oil labored fantastically on these as nicely. You’ll be able to see the distinction between the oiled and the unoiled bars beneath. The Danish oil gave the bars a deeper, richer colour.

I additionally gave them a really mild sanding with some 400-grit sandpaper, and the combo of the positive sanding and the Danish oil gave these bars a very lovely satin sheen.

So although Danish oil is new to me, I’m already an enormous fan. It’ll be fascinating to see the way it wears on these bars, and the way typically it should should be reapplied.

Subsequent up, I wish to present y’all simply how helpful the Uproot Clean tool is. This can be a instrument that I purchased particularly to scrub pet hair (cat hair) off of my velvet furnishings. It really works amazingly nicely for that function, and may be very quick and easy to make use of. I did an Instagram reel about it some time again. If you happen to can’t see it beneath, you can see that here.

I’ve by no means tried it on any furnishings aside from velvet, however evidently it really works on garments, carpet, and absolutely anything else.

So after portray Matt’s Theracycle train bike, I used to be placing all the things again collectively and needed to discover a solution to clear up the Velcro straps on the pedals. This stuff have been filthy as a result of when the bike isn’t in use, the straps are all the time on the ground like this…

He’s had the bike for a number of years now, and we’ve all the time had pets, so the Velcro had picked up a lot canine and cat hair through the years.

Gross, I do know. However have you ever ever tried cleansing cat and canine fur out of Velcro? It isn’t straightforward. The truth is, all the things I’ve tried prior to now (canine brush, cat brush, flea comb, and so forth.) has not labored. However then I remembered the Uproot Clear instrument.

It labored like a appeal, and every strap took lower than a minute to take away all of that fur that it had collected through the years. I couldn’t imagine how straightforward and thorough it was!!

When you’ve got pets, I extremely advocate the Uproot Clean tool. It’s fairly superb.

Okay, now let’s speak about this entry to the room and the way I created extra work for myself. Earlier than this weekend, I had already determined {that a} ornamental ceiling mild wasn’t going to work right here. I didn’t like the thought of trying into the room from the music room and seeing two ceiling lights (the hallway mild and this house fitness center entry mild) so shut collectively. So I had already determined to make use of the 1/2-inch lights that seem like recessed lights that I utilized in the principle a part of the room. I shared more details about these lights in this post.

So I received my ladder and minimize a gap within the drywal. Now let me remind you that these lights can go nearly wherever. It doesn’t matter if there’s a ceiling joist there. You’ll be able to nonetheless put these lights there. The sunshine is just one/2-inch thick, so it’s thinner than ceiling drywall, which is 5/8-inch thick. So so long as there’s sufficient area for the little junction field to go above the drywall, and there’s sufficient room for these two orange prongs to go on high of the drywall, the sunshine could be put in. Which means it might go nearly wherever.

Nicely, what I didn’t anticipate is that proper the place the sunshine wanted to go, there wasn’t only one ceiling joist there. One ceiling joist wouldn’t have been an issue in any respect. However there wasn’t only one. Or two. Or three. No, proper in that precise spot the place I needed to put in the sunshine, there have been about 5 ceiling joists all nailed collectively to create a six-inch-wide space of strong wooden. I’m undecided should you can see it within the image beneath, however that’s nothing however wooden all the best way throughout the precise spot the place I wanted to place a lightweight.

I can assure you that there’s no different place in my total home the place you’ll discover that aside from the precise spot the place I needed to place a lightweight. Discuss irritating!!!

So I simply screwed the drywall again on to the wooden, and patched it with drywall mud. It nonetheless wants a lot of sanding, and possibly yet one more coat of drywall mud earlier than I can paint it. In order of this morning, it appears to be like like this…

I couldn’t imagine it. I imply, these lights can go nearly wherever. That’s one motive I really like them a lot. However what are the chances that I selected the one spot the place 5 2″ x 6″ joists have been all sandwiched collectively to create a large six-inch-thick beam? So there received’t be a lightweight within the entry to the room. I’m positive with that. It might have been good so as to add some mild to that darkish space, but it surely’s not like anybody goes to be spending time in that space. It’s a passthrough. That’s it. So not having extra mild there actually isn’t an enormous deal. However having to restore an enormous gap within the drywall on the ceiling in a room that’s nearly completed is such a frustration.

So make that three issues that I’ve to do: (1) contact up the paint on the ceiling, (2) iron and hold the curtains, and (3) end repairing the ineffective gap that I made within the drywall on the ceiling. And I’ve a totally free day forward of me, so the room will probably be fully completed immediately. I promise I received’t be placing any extra ineffective holes within the drywall, or arising with any extra final minute tasks that I wish to do in right here.

Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and adorn 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 nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.

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