Shane and Peter relocated the wood shop upstairs to the loft, out of the family room downstairs. It’s messy work. Above, Shane shovels the sawdust and cutoffs into the trash bin.
Shane and Peter plan to finish phase 1 of the carpentry tomorrow. Today … they are blasting through casing installation around doors, and baseboard installation in rooms with tile or laminate floors where we don’t have to wait for the hickory flooring to be installed after Thanksgiving.
This is the square-edge shoe molding that Peter will nail to the baseboard in the train room and bedroom 4, atop the laminate flooring that we salvaged and did not demo.Peter on his hands and knees nailing the shoe molding to the baseboard above the laminate flooring in bedroom 4. Knee pads might help, but Peter refuses — “they make my knees sweat.”Sticks of primed baseboard cut to length, ready for installation in the master bath.This is one of the details we sweated with Brett, the architect, Ron Dahlke from Ranserve, and Mike from BMC West, the lumber company. Steven and Jacquela wanted a deep casing around the doors, and a thinner baseboard, to create a “reveal” when the two different dimensions of wood are nailed into position. Here, in the master bath, is the first example of all that planning and selection, made real.
