Laundry Complete!

After a full weekend working on the laundry area, it is finally complete (almost).  This is our 99th post on this blog, can you believe it?

I got the trim installed, everything pained, the doors on, the drying racks build all of the hardware installed!

We still need to put the banding on the bare end of the plywood, but I didn't want to try to iron that on myself.

The design was built around making it as easy as possible to remove the washer and dryer if necessary, as well as access the connections (water lines, cords, etc.).

The top piece that houses the drawers and drying racks is about 5" shorter than the shelf just above the washer and dryer so that it can easily be pulled out if necessary.  It is only screwed down to the plywood shelf below, and the 1x4 trim on the sides is installed with pocket holes from inside the cabinets so they can be pulled off.

Likewise, the baseboard trim is in two pieces so that only the piece of trim that is in front of the washer and dryer would need to be pulled off to get the washer / dryer out of their cubby.

It took alot longer to design and build this way, but in the event that anything ever happens that we need to get in there, it will be worthwhile.

I'm happy with the way it turned out, but the painting is still the worst part!

Photos and video below!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldTluJi0kpA&feature=youtu.be

Laundy Storage

We got our new washer and dryer for the addition and finally decided on a storage design which contains two drawers and four drying racks.

Had an early dismissal from work today which gave me some time to work on the storage area.

Updated photos are below, start and finish:

Holy shizzum dizzums!

Watch "Master closet finished!" on YouTube

Happy day!

Closet - Mostly Finished

The closet is mostly finished now.  The hardware is on the drawers but we still need to add the shoe rack. There are also a few drawers that are a little sticky now that the fronts are on and painted.

Closet painting

Today the closet was sanded, primed, and painted with one coat of finish paint.

Sanded:

Primed:

First coat of paint:

Closet Consumption

Wow, this closet has really consumed my life.  Finally started trimming it out.  Without the shoe rack installed it is difficult to finish the molding.  We still need a couple of pieces of molding and hardware for all the drawers! I got the base molding and crown molding today.

Lucky for me Sandra already detailed out how to cut crown molding for the different corners, which made it possible!

Photos and updated video:

http://youtu.be/bsxwyG58Us4

Closet continues

This closet is alot of work but it is finally starting to take shape.

After many mishaps with my drawers I finally finished them today. It was a great feeling when that last one slid right in without having to make any fine tune adjustments.

Here is a link to a video of the bedroom and closet.

Other photos below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV3I82Rk5p8&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Drawers galore!

Busy day working on drawers  after our first psl of the season and picking up our new duvet!

Finished all of the dado cuts yesterday and assembled and installed 9 of the 10 drawers.

Drawer glides are working well on most drawers. 

Toilet room medicine cabinet was finished and installed yesterday.

Photos of the madness below.

Painting continues...

From this:

Drawer on its side (so you can see the dado cut)

Stack of drawers to be installed:

To this!

The last drawer was not installed because we made a last minute decision to make 2 shorter drawers on the top so we were short one slide.

Bathroom cabinet:

Door front:

View of joint from top of cabinet:

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Painting

Vent Before:

Vent After Becky fixed it:

Close up:

Better right?

Jim had a good idea to paint everything you can see in the wall black, which I executed. Then I cut the frame and the punched metal to size, glued on the punched metal with wood glue and painted. 

We had the contractor patch up the hole in the wall that wasn't an actual return which made the hole much smaller.

New wall color in family room, airy mint:

They only painted the one wall which they cut into, but the two greens look good together. We will probably paint the rest of the room the lighter green at some point.

Curtains!

We slept in the new room last night for the first time. And also took a shower in the new shower! It was fun trying out all the sprays and the endless hot water was amazing! (We put in a tankless water heater for the hot water in the addition, and kept the natural gas water heater in the old house.)

Today we were working on a cabinet for above the toilet, and primed all the shelves for the closet. Jim played with the router to try and match Joe's handiwork. I have to say, it looks pretty good. Will post pics when painting is completed.