Got chalk?

Holy cow! Look at that! It's a chalk board wall. We are getting really close. Just a light fixture, furniture, and some cool wall decals. Keep checking back.

Wally's Room

I know, here is another new project started. Don't worry, I have about three more on my list I may begin before I finish any of them. This one is a big one.

Now that we are well past the half way point of the pregnancy, Jess and I are ready to begin work on Wally's room. Up to this point, this room has been designated "The Guest Room." It was a pretty simple design of white (sort of) ceiling and light green walls. Here are a few pictures of the room before we started.

Jess started us off by putting plastic down over the hardwood floors and taping off the base boards. Since we are pretty much going to paint every part of this room, it was just easier to cover the whole floor. If you look close (or click for a bigger image) you can see Abby on the left helping flatten out the plastic.

Abby supervises while Jess finishes the last of the baseboards.

After writing both Abby and Wally's names in white paint, we put Abby in her painting outfit and let her have at it. The solid wall and the wall with the closet are going to be a nice white. The ceiling will eventually have stripes so for now we are painting the whole ceiling white.

Once the white was all finished, I had my father-in-law come over the help me tape off the ceiling stripes. I have never done stripes before but we were very careful placing the tape.

You can see the yellow stripes before we pull off the tape. I was a little nervous to actually take the tape off because I was afraid a lot of paint had leaked and it would take a lot of touching up.

But look how great they turned out! The lines are perfectly straight. It looks so good and I love the color. The wall with the door as well as the inside of the closet have this yellow as well.

All that is left is the window wall. This will be the most fun as we are going to use chalkboard paint. Stay tuned as this project is a priority so I should have it updated soon.

Work Bench, cont.

I don't have a lot of pictures to post today but I actually got quite a bit done over the weekend. I took advantage of the nice weather on Saturday and pulled my table saw out of the shop onto the gravel driveway where I would have plenty of room. My table saw has the great feature of being able to collapse and transported around so it wasn't difficult. I then began the huge job of cutting 12 inches off the particle board shelves and MDF top pieces. It was a little tricky all by myself but I took it slowly and used my rollers to support the sheet as it passed through the saw. The good news is after the eighth one I had the system down. The bad news is after the eighth one I was done. That was probably the most difficult part of this job.

I then began the task of assembling the frames. I made quick work of the first one with my screw gun. I temporarily put the leg posts in place to see how it looks. The next step is to cut out the holes in the shelf to accomodate the leg posts. I decided, in the interest of making it nice, I would cut square holes for the legs to pass through so the shelf itself remains in one piece. In this picture, you can see how it will go together.