CowtownAg06 said:

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Hope the pup is ok.

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locogringo said:

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Carpet got installed in the loft. I'm running low on trim, so it'll have to wait.





Counter tops for the bathrooms made it also. All counter tops are now done.





Found a vanity light that is going to work for all the vanities in the house. Those things can be stupid expensive. We found a satin nickle one for $69 each. The same light in oil rubber bronze was $332. Stupid. We wanted black anyhow so we decided to try and paint the satin nickle ones.

Stock photo:


Blown apart



Back together. Turned out pretty dang good. I was skeptical of painting it.





Next fun project was the lights and ceiling fan in the living room.

Started out only slightly sketchy on top of the 18' scaffolding.



Then increased the sketch-factor by adding a ladder to get at the peak ~25 foot



Avoided any accidents and it all got done. Also got the big quad window trimmed while I was up there.










Master closet was next on the list. Started by building the 2 built-ins that will be on each side. His and hers with different layouts to accommodate different needs.

Hers:


His:


Each shelf got it's own dado to help with strength


Next were the hanging rods. We knew we wanted the same 1 5/16" metal tubing used in the laundry room but had to get a bit creative with the mounting. When we installed the blocking back during framing we didn't put them at the correct heights. So we had to choose to somehow get up to the blocking, or move the supports horizontally to hit studs. We went with the harder route, but it is making for some interesting designs.

Back rod


All those crazy angles required some more thought to build than I anticipated. All of the pieces had a pair of angle cuts, the cuts had to end up oriented to each other correctly. Sometimes that meant 90 degrees to each other, sometimes it was 180 degrees to each other.

For example, the top and bottom cuts on these pieces both had to be 90 to each other (within the same piece), but then the pieces had to be mirrors of each other also. It's hard to see, but the cuts at the top of the picture aren't square to the pipe, the are 45'd towards the camera.


To accomplish this, I had to break out the angle finder and weld on a reference tab to a stick of tubing. Then cut each piece consecutively using the angle finder to rotate the tube to the right position.



Also made a quick and dirty jig to position the tubing in the center of the square brackets. 2 sticks of scrap attached at a 90. then 2 "walls" to catch the bracket:




The T shape of the jig was ripped to a certain width so that their edges would be the tubing's radius away from center.



This resulted in the tube being centered when butted up.



Back half of the right side is done. I'll duplicate this on the left side tonight.



The lower rod is much more simple with just a support going to the rear. The top rod was done that way just to match the back rod.



Also built out the linen closet (shelves), hung the living room TV, Trimmed the triple window in the living room, built some shelves in kitchen cabinets, did some misc. trim but failed to take pictures.

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V8Aggie said:

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That ladder on the scaffold. You're bat**** crazy!

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