Building a Shoe Barn

[EddieWalker]

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Love the ceiling and the window trim is very unique. Is that something that they do there or is it your design?

 

[BrokenTrack]

Love the ceiling and the window trim is very unique. Is that something that they do there or is it your design?

No, that is my design. I produce 90% of my own lumber from off the farm, so that means I am pretty much limited to the trees I have here. I do not have any oak for instance, and limited black cherry, so my thought was, "if I must use a common wood type like White Pine, at least make the woodworking so unique, it is not like a spec house."

Really you cannot see the best part of that "design" as that would be how the baseboard flows around the rooms of the house, rising and arcing in the corners and doorways. I have cut out peacocks in the doorways, then each room of the house has a theme. Our room has shamrocks in the corners, my daughter's bedroom has hearts, out entryway has crosses, and our spare room has tractors. (I anticipated having a son at some point in my life). There are no themed corners in the closets, but it has the same level of detail without the cut-outs there as the baseboards curve upwards in the corners, go around, and then drop back down.

Contractors just cannot do fancy work with trim, like arches, sweeps, and cut-outs with scroll sawing, so I incorporated those as I did the woodwork to make it a unique home.

But by all means, that is stuff other homeowners can do too. Spend a little time on details using common wood, to make the house unique.

 

[EddieWalker]

I like the way you think!!!

 

[BrokenTrack]

I managed to get some work done on the bedside tables today.

Not wanting to get caught up in SSS which is: Second Sock Syndrome, which is what the knitters call it when it takes 2 days to make the first sock, and two months to make the second one! So I grabbed enough lumber to make both bedside tables at the same time.

They are not overly large: 18 inches wide, by 30 inches high, and 32 inches long. It has a cubby with it half-hidden by a sliding barn door.

It took me most of the day, but I managed to get one completely built, and then the other one mostly done, but without the barn door. That is because I am a complete idiot. When I got the hardware yesterday, I was thinking two doors, but not two pulleys per door meaning I needed four of them!

Katie came home and liked them.

I was not sure as I used wormy wood, then did not plane the boards, but just sanded down the rough-lumber using 50 grit sand paper. I figured of she wanted to fill the worm holes I could, but myself I thought with the gray paint it might actually make them look like barn-boards. She agreed, s tomorrow I will paint them up, and at least have the furniture done on this closet build.

 

[BrokenTrack]

I just about wrapped this project up.

I finally got the hardware to finish the second door on the wife's side, bedside table.

I also managed to get the LED lights installed on the headboard.

Then it was on to drywall, mudding, and paint in the bedroom, and new closet.

Once that was installed, I got the TV mounted on the new wall so we can watch it from bed.

Finally I got the closet rod and shelf installed, and then the closet-maid drawers installed.

I even managed to get my clothes in it. I did that because Katie decided she did not want a separate closet for her shoes. She is thinking now that we could have a his and her walk-in closet instead. If she could ever get over her shoe-separation-anxiety-disorder we could share the new closet, and turn her walk-in closet into another bathroom, but that will be a ways down the road I think.

The only thing I am waiting on now is the patio door. It should have been here last week but maybe Black Swan (Coronavirus) is impeding its progress in getting here?

 

[EddieWalker]

Sounds like good progress. Sure would be more fun to see pictures of it!!!

 

[BrokenTrack]

Sounds like good progress. Sure would be more fun to see pictures of it!!!

I will see what I can do.

The problem is I made a lot of drywall dust that looks unsightly. I tried vacuuming it up, but the wife's Oreck sucked up a screw and bound the motor up. So I ripped into that, tore the motor/vacuum housing down, found the offending screw, got it freed up and plastic-welded the hole it shot through the vacuum housing. I then put the vacuum back together.

KABOOM.

I never said I hooked the wires back right.

Apparently I got some wires backwards on the motor. So now we are waiting for amazon to deliver a new Oreck. But I can take some photos as long as you do not care about some drywall dust on the floor.

 

[EddieWalker]

You need a his and hers vacuum cleaners. Mine is a 5hp shop vac, hers are something to do with the floors. Mine works great on drywall dust, but the filter needs to be changed after every job. Usually about 3 days of regular use on that stuff.

 

[BrokenTrack]

You need a his and hers vacuum cleaners. Mine is a 5hp shop vac, hers are something to do with the floors. Mine works great on drywall dust, but the filter needs to be changed after every job. Usually about 3 days of regular use on that stuff.

I am not sure how often you suck up drywall dust, but I use my ash vac for drywall dust. It's fine filter for fine ash allows it to work really well for that with plugging the filter. The HEPA filter on the Oreck does as well...it just does not tolerate screws very well. I do have to give it credit though, it had enough suction to pull a screw from the floor, up into the impeller with enough force to break a big chunk out of the housing!

I used the Oreck because it is easier on bigger areas then the small nozzle on the ash vac. I just never saw the screw!

 

[tradosaurus]

Kind of a follow-up to that post above...

My wife was married before, and yet her husband was on the shorter side, so he did not allow my wife to wear high heels because she would then be even taller than him. He was also kind of controlling, and told her how to dress, and bought her clothing for her to wear.

But my wife LOVES shoes. So when she met me, who is taller than her anyway, I did not care, so she has kind of gone overboard on her shoes. At one time she belonged to (3) shoe-of-the-month clubs, so her collection is kind of substantial. (And yes they really do have shoe-of-the-month clubs).

I am the only male in this house, as even the dog, bunny, cat, goldfish, and duck are even girls, so with the exception of the goldfish...all have plenty of shoes! At the last great shoe-census of 2019, I think there was 92 pairs of shoes in this house. So my wife does need a "shoe barn"! (LOL)

A note to the wise though: do not let your wives read this post because if it gets out, that will be the newest house craze: a must-have in a home: walk-in shoe closet!

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Now I understand why her husband is controlling. 92 pairs of shoes?

My wife is frugal but she knows I would never put up with a waste like that.