Week#24 - Odds and Ends

Good morning everyone,

This will be my second last blog in the Basement Recroom renovation.  I will blog next when we get our furniture.  Last week I spent most mornings varnishing the Bostonian pine door. It took about 5 hours. Yesterday I finished putting up trims, mouldings and baseboards around that door. Below is the Bostonian door with all the trims. I was able to add a moulding to the top of the door.

Door

I also took the buck saw apart, primed it and then painted it. The wood parts will be brown in colour and the metal parts black. You can see the buck saw below.

Buck Saw

I also took my great grandfather's saw apart. Yesterday I used my lathe to build two handles out of oak.  The handles have been covered with Danish oil and will be varnished prior to being put up on the wall. The next pictures shows the saw and the handles.

Dad's Saw

We should be receiving our furniture for our recroom in 4 to 5 weeks. This week I plan on starting to work on our next project. The kitchen renovations.  The next link is the one for our new blog:

http://kitchenrenovations2011.blogspot.com/

This week I will take the workbench in my shop apart. My plan is to move my kitchen cabinets to my shop.

Week#23 - Bostonian Door and Mouldings

We had an awesome party for dad 80^th birthday. Didn't get much work done last Saturday but made up for lost time this week. We decided to wait until I start my parental leave to start moving stuff around. So for now the office stays in the basement.

Over the past couple of weeks I've been busy working on the mouldings and trims. For the most part I am finished with that part of the project. Today I installed our Bostonian pine door. As you can see in the next picture, it looks very nice. I'm going to try to find something to put over top of the door.

Bostonian Door

Next week I will hopefully get the door varnished. I'm also working on the buck saw I bought off of eBay.  I took it apart and started sanding it. I was hoping that the wood would look nicer but from what I can figure out it was left outside and the wood is quite stained from being out in the rain.  I'm thinking I will have to paint it instead of varnishing it. The next pictures show the buck saw.

Buck Saw

This morning I tried painting a piece of pine with Tremclad paint to see if it will stick to wood.  If it works I will paint the buck saw brown, the same brown I used for the wood chute and the metal parts I will paint black. Dad gave me an old saw that belonged to my great grand-father. It measure about 5 feet in length.  I plan on turning two oak handles for it as one is missing and the other looks very plain. These two saws will be put up on the West wall.

Week#22 - Linoleum Floor

Hello everyone,

Last week we got our linoleum floor installed, it is absolutely gorgeous. As you can see by the picture below, it makes the room look very different.

New linoleum

I was also able to install most of my trims, mouldings and baseboards.  We are still waiting for our Bostonian pine door to come in. Unfortunately it's on a special order and it may take a few more weeks before we receive it. 

My brother Rhéal gave me a hand with bringing in the wood cart. We had to remove the railing in order to bring it in because it was too wide. That puppy was heavy. Can't wait to get the buck saw and put it on. The next couple of pictures are of the cart. It look very nice.

Cart

Next week we are having dad's party so probably won't get much done. This project is almost completed. Next week I plan on moving my office upstairs in the shop recroom and clean my shop for dad's party.