Long list of next steps
As promised, here are our tentative nursery/office plans:
-remove doors strategically to keep Chloe out of areas and keep it dark/quiet when Clint is up working late
-heat gun & strip door frames & window sill
-heat gun & strip the sides of the stairs (Clint is keen on this)
-gut the nursery closet in preparation for system similar to that which is in our coat closet
-pull off all baseboards and trim that we’ll salvage (half of it in the nursery doesn’t match). Take to get dip stripped.
-do all finishing work on dip stripped trim (involves a screwdriver and a hammer to knock off the pieces that didn’t come off in the process then sanding, and finally cleaning with denatured alcohol & steel wool).
-heat gun and strip all doors-5 in total (still need to do the one downstairs also)
-stain and shellac trim
-paint nursery
-new light fixture/fan (not that our 2 bare bulbs in the ceiling aren't beautiful)
-completely move out of the upstairs so floors can be refinished
-get floors refinished, move back in (this is looking like it's going to be end of September- cutting it close)
-*maybe* install a whole house fan. Clint is worried about fumes from the floor refinishing and would feel better with this sucking the air out
-build pieces necessary for the office to effectively function as both an office and a nursery
-assemble/hang nursery furniture
-put closet organizer in our bedroom closet that has been in our garage since December (we're nothing if not optimistic)
-buy ikea wardrobe to make up for lost closet in nursery
-possibly get Flor tiles and install them in closet floor- this may be necessary because another of the great mysteries of an old house- it looks like part of the closet floor at one point in time caught fire.
-get remaining missing trim milled
-one day, get new windows
And poof! We’re done! Just like that! Except I’d imagine for all this to occur start to finish we’re looking at a similar timeframe to the work we did downstairs which only took- oh- about a year. WITHOUT a baby. Occasionally I think that we should wait to do any of it until after the baby is here, but then I realize that if it’s disruptive to be moving out of the upstairs and staying away from the house now, it’ll probably be tenfold with an infant. Not to mention the added worry of a tiny one learning to crawl who undoubtedly will like to eat things off the floor- like paint chips. Thus we are charging ahead. I keep reminding myself that we often survive, and even thrive on chaos, by often repeating to ourselves what has quickly become our motto- “it’s an adventure!”
-remove doors strategically to keep Chloe out of areas and keep it dark/quiet when Clint is up working late
-heat gun & strip door frames & window sill
-heat gun & strip the sides of the stairs (Clint is keen on this)
-gut the nursery closet in preparation for system similar to that which is in our coat closet
-pull off all baseboards and trim that we’ll salvage (half of it in the nursery doesn’t match). Take to get dip stripped.
-do all finishing work on dip stripped trim (involves a screwdriver and a hammer to knock off the pieces that didn’t come off in the process then sanding, and finally cleaning with denatured alcohol & steel wool).
-heat gun and strip all doors-5 in total (still need to do the one downstairs also)
-stain and shellac trim
-paint nursery
-new light fixture/fan (not that our 2 bare bulbs in the ceiling aren't beautiful)
-completely move out of the upstairs so floors can be refinished
-get floors refinished, move back in (this is looking like it's going to be end of September- cutting it close)
-*maybe* install a whole house fan. Clint is worried about fumes from the floor refinishing and would feel better with this sucking the air out
-build pieces necessary for the office to effectively function as both an office and a nursery
-assemble/hang nursery furniture
-put closet organizer in our bedroom closet that has been in our garage since December (we're nothing if not optimistic)
-buy ikea wardrobe to make up for lost closet in nursery
-possibly get Flor tiles and install them in closet floor- this may be necessary because another of the great mysteries of an old house- it looks like part of the closet floor at one point in time caught fire.
-get remaining missing trim milled
-one day, get new windows
And poof! We’re done! Just like that! Except I’d imagine for all this to occur start to finish we’re looking at a similar timeframe to the work we did downstairs which only took- oh- about a year. WITHOUT a baby. Occasionally I think that we should wait to do any of it until after the baby is here, but then I realize that if it’s disruptive to be moving out of the upstairs and staying away from the house now, it’ll probably be tenfold with an infant. Not to mention the added worry of a tiny one learning to crawl who undoubtedly will like to eat things off the floor- like paint chips. Thus we are charging ahead. I keep reminding myself that we often survive, and even thrive on chaos, by often repeating to ourselves what has quickly become our motto- “it’s an adventure!”
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