Are you this walk -in wardrobe project as full as I am? I am so proud of how this closet develops, but at the same time I am ready to be ready and continue. Making a project of this scale alone takes longer and longer than I think it will take at the beginning, and I am always frustrated and excited to keep going when I start to see the finish line. And I’m there today. It is always the “90% ferry” syndrome, where I can do enough that I can see that it will be pretty great, I can see the finished room in my head and I am ready to continue. It happens with every big project and in fact I wrote about it when I built the walk -in pantry. (You can see this post here.)
However, last night, when I completed my work for the night, I insisted on what still had to be done to end this room. On the one hand, these lists are always motivating for me because I can see what still needs to be done on paper, and it keeps me concentrated. I also just love lists. But they are also a little emptied because the actual written list always ends longer than the list I had submitted in my head. But I will try not to let myself down or emphasize myself. I will use it to motivate myself when I heard every article on the list.
First I got the rest of the crown around the washing and dryer areas and filled all the nail holes wood and sanded. The cuts in the corners are not great, since none of these corners is perfectly square and I have not taken the time to measure every angle precisely and to cut it precisely. I just cut everything in a 45-degree angle. But that’s why we have KauGle, right?
Therefore, the entire cladding on these walls – crown shape, baseboard, window cladding – must still be repelled and painted.
An object that I had completely forgotten was that this door still had to be framed. Pooh. I was used to seeing it so that my mind did not see it as unfinished. Have you ever done that?
It is as if you set a box with something in the corner to take it somewhere, and then forget it. Then your mind gets used to seeing it that you no longer “see” it. But of course the room is not ready until the door is mature and finished.
As soon as the door is framed, I have to add a remaining crown shape that stand over the wall above the door. I also have to add small decorative pieces in which the cupboards hit the wall.
As far as I can judge this, the three cabinet sections on the right side of the room are completed with the exception of the shoe designer, which has to go on the baseboard at the bottom right.
I really have to remove the door before I add the shoe strip because the shoe strip wraps around the side of the cupboards that flank the door and end on this wall on both sides of the door.
The same applies to the cupboards on the left side of the room. These are completely finished except for the skating performance.
When I say that the right and left side cabinets are over, I do not include the ends that obviously still have to be prepared and painted. I consider these areas as part of the washing and dryer areas in my head. But these areas also need some small vertical trims that hit the cupboards on the walls.
I will only add this wear after the worktops have been completed. And of course I still have to build worktops for the washing and dryer cabinets. I also have to add the upper piece of ornamental plant to each of these cupboards (you can see the raw edge of the plywood top in the picture below) and fascinate the walls in the washing machine and dryer cabinets. All of this cladding must be filled, cold and painted.
I still haven’t found out what I will do with the window. I still read your comments from yesterday’s post and I am sure that as soon as I have read your ideas. I will know which direction I want to go with it. It can be so easy to reinstall the original color (an upper process/below, completely lined), or it may require one or two additional step so that I have privacy in this room.
And that brings me to the last two major projects that, in my opinion, will take most of the time. First, the chandelier scale. I’m still not 100% sure how to do it. This can be one of these projects that I find out over time. But somehow I will transform the chandelier from this pretty simple brass crown chandelier …
… in something that is inspired by this beauty that coordinates with my white flower lights …
I’ve never tried soldering, so this can be my chance. I bought a soldering pistol last year and thought I would use it when I made the trailer light over my desk in the studio, but in the end I didn’t need it. So this could be the time for me to learn a new ability.
And then that leaves the last big project – Closet Island. I went back and forth with this design. I optimized the design, changed my opinion and popped it again. But last weekend I decided that I will just keep it. I will keep all the drawers and cupboards on the long sides of the island. The page, which stands for my jewelry/tape cabinet section, has four drawers and two closet doors. The cabinets will be nearby, and there I will keep additional detergents and whatever the washing machine and dryer.
And after I have considered all the ways to keep the island movable (if I ever have to get the washing machine and dryer out of the room), I decided to design it like a double -sided chest of drawers with twisted wooden feet. In this way it is not attached to the ground if it has to be moved. If it is too heavy, I can simply remove the drawers, and then it can be slightly movable. And I like the idea that it looks like a separate piece of furniture instead of being built into the room. The side that faces the hanging clothes are all drawers.
It is still quite a list that is somewhat depressing. But I will also try to use this list as a motivation instead of having me discouraged. I just keep my nose up to the Grindstein, stay as focused as possible, have a project, and hopefully I will soon have a finished cabinet!
If you want to see lists in the actual list form, my punch list looks like:
- Passing and painting the rest of the crown shape, window cladding and baseboards around the washing machine and dryer.
- Prime and paint the ends of the cupboards through washing machine and dryer,
- Install and paint the baseboards within the washing and dryer cabinets,
- End the cladding around the washing and dryer cabinets – wood filling, boiler and color,
- Find out how to move the washing machine and the dryer into the room and connect it,
- Find out what to do with the window for privacy.
- Frame from the door,
- Cut out the door – wood filling, boiler and color,
- Add the crown shape point above the door – wood filling, kettle, color,
- Make the worktops for the washing and dryer cabinets,
- Add the vertical cladding in which the cupboards hit the walls (by washing machine and dryer and at the door)
- Install all shoe shapes and color,
- Paint and install the wall lights over the washing machine and the dryer,
- Hang the work of art over the washing machine and the dryer,
- Transform the chandelier into floral quality,
- Build the central island,
- Find storage baskets for the shelves in the final cupboards (which do not cost wealth).
I think that’s it. This is a lot, but I can do it!
