Hectic Month and a Half

To say the least, I've been busy. That's almost an understatement.

I had a big show that I do following my last blog, then immediately signed the lease on this barn that I was looking to rent for my business. It was pretty raw. It had last been used for steel fabrication and was filthy. It had never really been finished as a workspace either. Drywall was once added, but never finished, it had no heating system and the only current entrances were 2 garage doors. And no windows on the 1st floor.

I had to wait about a week and a half for some parts for my heating system so I patched and painted the second floor, including the floor itself. Thankfully this area was a bit cleaner and didn't need as much work. Was a little tedious though because I needed to use space heaters to keep the place warm enough so everything wouldn't freeze. Oh yeah, no water either, pipes would freeze.

Once I got my parts I was able to get my heating system installed. It's a pretty efficient kerosene system. Finally, I was ready to get working on the biggest, most time consuming mess. Had to fill all the joints on the ceiling, ugh. Hated doing that, looking up constantly. After that the majority of the work wasn't so bad, just time consuming

One wall that I was removing a garage door from and adding french doors to, had to basically be completely redone. It was so wavy and had several exposed pipes that I had to build a lathe system over the old wall and dry wall it again. I had to square and plumb the whole thing about every 20" squ. It was either that or rip out the old wall completely and build it new. Because it was structurally sound, it would've been too costly.

So I got those french doors in, the wall redone, added another set of french doors and patched and painted all the walls over the next three weeks. Had to pack and move everything(almost done with that), had a major show in NYC, came down with the worst flu in years on my birthday, all in the last two weeks. It's almost done though, yay. :/

Don't know if these photos will work, but here are some shots of the progress.

This shot , the part on the right, is the only area I've yet to finish, aside from a crown like molding I'm putting in. I have a lot of rough cut 4x4's that I'm going to stain and attach to create a post and beam look. The rest are sort of before and after.

I'm proud of the fact that I did every bit of remodeling by myself.


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