A few of you can be very glad to know that I lastly began portray the remainder of the ceiling within the studio final night time, and I hope to complete up the ceiling and the remainder of the partitions in the present day.
It’s an enormous room with a tall ceiling, so it is a job that I’ve been pushing aside for fairly a while now. Not solely was I not thrilled in regards to the thought of portray such a tall ceiling and having to spend a lot time on the scaffolding, however I additionally procrastinated as a result of with a view to paint the remainder of the ceiling, I’d need to work round some fairly massive objects. My work tables are so massive that they will’t be moved out of the room. And I don’t have wherever else to place the desk, both. So I’ll simply need to work round these objects, in addition to a number of different objects, as I am going.
I spent fairly a little bit of time yesterday cleansing up and placing issues away to make the job simpler, however I nonetheless have fairly a number of issues that I’ll must work round. However it’ll really feel so good to lastly have this job achieved! I’m able to be rid of the blue, and have a white ceiling and Benjamin Moore Traditional Grey partitions. I solely have small parts on two partitions to complete, after which I’ve this one huge wall that must be painted.
I might be so excited if I can get all the portray achieved in the present day!
In different information, I’m so glad that I discussed the wall vent that I must put into the wall to offer air circulation for the HVAC unit that sits within the storage closet! All this time, I’ve been planning on placing the air vent proper right here on the wall subsequent to my desk and perpendicular to my pink cupboards.
However after I talked about it, a number of individuals had different recommendations. One suggestion was to swap out the door to the storage closet with a louvered door. I don’t assume my mind would enable me to have one stable door within the again entry (i.e., the door to the studio rest room) and one louvered door. Having mismatched doorways like that might in all probability drive me loopy.
I did really take into account chopping out the decrease two panels on the door and including one massive vent in that space, however for the reason that door is a pocket door, my concern was that something I added to the door would possibly add an excessive amount of thickness to the door for it to function easily and correctly within the pocket.
However a number of of you prompt placing the vent within the wall within the again entry. I cherished that concept, however there was just one place the place it might go — to the fitting of the closet door. Once more, for the reason that door is a pocket door that opens to the left, I can’t minimize out a rectangle of drywall to the left of the door. So this slim space was the one choice for placing a vent within the again entry wall.
That space is 17.25 inches vast, and I minimize out sufficient of the drywall on the closet aspect to be sure that there was nothing in that backside portion of wall. And luckily, there’s nothing in there! No studs, no wires, no nothing. So it was the proper place for a vent so long as I might discover a vent that measurement that I really like.
Since I nonetheless have fairly a number of DIY initiatives I would like to complete for the studio, the very last thing I needed was so as to add a DIY vent to my record. So as a substitute, I went in quest of fairly air return vents, and I got here throughout Worth Home’s primed wood luxury air return vents (affiliate hyperlink), and so they had one that’s the excellent measurement for that area! I purchased the one with the tough opening of 14″ x 30″ and the general dimensions of 16,8″ x 31.5″, however they’ve nearly each measurement conceivable. I imply, that is going to be a near-perfect match since I’ve 17.25 inches of area!
I’m very enthusiastic about getting this achieved, and I feel it’ll look nice (or disappear altogether) as soon as it’s put in and painted the wall shade. And I’ll lastly be capable of shut the closet door! And the most effective factor is that I ordered it Saturday night time, and it’s out for supply proper now. I like DIYing, however there’s nothing like that fast gratification of speedy deliveries. 😀
And at last, I’m nonetheless undecided on the cupboards. I do know that the overwhelming quantity of people that voted (I’d guess about 95% of the over 450 votes) stated that I ought to paint the world across the window and the backs of the cubbies the wall shade.
I completely perceive why that was the most well-liked alternative. I get it. And like I stated final week, it was the clear winner of the three selections when my mother, my brother, and I have been weighing the choices.
However for some cause, when it got here proper down to really portray these areas, I simply couldn’t make myself do it. There’s one thing in regards to the wall shade exhibiting on the backs of the cubbies that I simply can’t get on board with. To my eye, the wall shade exhibiting there cheapens the look of the cubbies. And no, eradicating the bridge isn’t an choice. I like the bridge, I simply want to determine this one nagging element.
I did attempt placing wallpaper on the again of 1 to see what that might appear like…
I like the look, however as my mother identified, it’ll be lined up as quickly as I put issues in these cubbies. So I simply don’t know what to do. I’ll determine it out, however I haven’t figured it out but. What I do know is that I’m certain these cubbies want some lighting. And perhaps as soon as they’ve lighting, I’ll understand that’s all they wanted all alongside.
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.
