Studio Apartment Up-date

[tony barnhill]

Studio Apartment Update

WHOO-HOO....sheetrock guys are finally finished! They've done a great job but they sure were slow....things will pick up now - hopefully!

Cabinet guy starts building cabinets tomorrow. Painter will start priming walls and cabinets when he finishes. Tile layer is coming tomorrow morning to measure the 1st floor area & bathroom so we can choose & order 12"x12"tiles.

All the photos are of different walls except for the last one - its an example of the ceiling texture job, called a 'knockdown' ceiling. Absolutely beautiful.

 

[rick_ingram]

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We used knock-down on our complete house...except for the kitchen walls and bathroom walls in anticipation of future wallpaper.

Nice texture...easy to maintain. Excellent for ceilings...a whole lot better than the "popcorn" finish of the '70s and '80s.

I would recommend that you install the clear plastic outer corner protectors, especially with an active little one in the room...it will save a lot of chips.

 

[DNK]

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We used knock-down on our complete house...except for the kitchen walls and bathroom walls in anticipation of future wallpaper.

Nice texture...easy to maintain. Excellent for ceilings...a whole lot better than the "popcorn" finish of the '70s and '80s.

I would recommend that you install the clear plastic outer corner protectors, especially with an active little one in the room...it will save a lot of chips.

I would say as a professional person of one you just mentioned ,
YUK
on both points

But the room and the job look great

 

[weewillie]

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nice Tony, hope you were paying by the job and not by the hour.

 

[tony barnhill]

Re: Studio Apartment Update

We used knock-down on our complete house...except for the kitchen walls and bathroom walls in anticipation of future wallpaper.

Nice texture...easy to maintain. Excellent for ceilings...a whole lot better than the "popcorn" finish of the '70s and '80s.

I would recommend that you install the clear plastic outer corner protectors, especially with an active little one in the room...it will save a lot of chips.

I would say as a professional person of one you just mentioned ,
YUK
on both points

But the room and the job look great

Don - I don't understand what you mean - which 2 points?

And I wasn't talking trash about my sheetrock guys...they were slow but most of it was due to weather....when they came in to work, they were methodological, attentive to detail and even corrected things the sheetrock hangers did wrong....when they sanded, they used a system that carried most of the dust into a container & left very little for me.

However, I think they're accustomed to new houses where the general contractor has crews to come behind each sub & clean up.....I spent hours scraping the floor, sweeping, hauling off their empty boxes, etc...whew.

nice Tony, hope you were paying by the job and not by the hour.

Always._________________________

 

[DNK]

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texture and corner guards.

 

[tony barnhill]

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Ah...well, the upstairs area we're turning into an apartment/gameroom was originally designed to be just just an attic...so, when I built it, I wasn't reral exact whe I put the collar ties in...they've now become ceiling rafters....almost straight but not perfect...so, the knockdown hides my sins.

& I'm not a real fan of those plastic corner guards either.

 

[rick_ingram]

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The corner guards I have in my house are virtually invisible..(clear, not the big frickin' vinyl ones seen in commercial buildings)...my son is in a wheelchair....I have had to do NO post-install repair.

It's your house....do what you gotta do!

 

[tony barnhill]

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I was thinking the ugly big ones...never saw anything else!

 

[rick_ingram]

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I was thinking the ugly big ones...never saw anything else!

I got mine at Lowes...4' tall and about an inch wide. You cannot see them on the walls.

They show up more here in the photo than they do in person....

 

[tony barnhill]

Cabinets...

So, the cabinet guy has been here 2 days building the cabinets just like Jerri wants them. This afternoon when we got home from grandson's, I test fitted all the appliances except the under-cabinet stereo system & the range vent hood.....photo shows the cabinet skeleton with the refrig/freezer, 20" wide free-standing range, microwave, and 37" HD, flat screen TV in their places.....coming together!! He wants to see everything in its place before he goes any farther...& he also still has to measure for the counter tops.

Monday, he finishes the cabinet faces and starts building drawers & doors for the lower units (Jerri wants the upper cabinets open)....cabinets are going to be painted gloss white so he's building them out of 3/4" birch.

Wednesday painters come in to prime everything as cabinet maker says he'll be finished Tuesday.