Clean Slate

The shop is cleaned out and many of my recent projects are complete. I started to pull slabs of maple out of the storage area in the barn and I am thrilled to gain empty space, I'm sure it won't last long. The maple will be used to build the kitchen for the Gothic Farmhouse. I have stopped calling it the Yellow House because there are at least three other yellow houses here in Petrolia and I know that two of them are also referred to as the "Yellow House."

One of my recent projects was stripping paint off of redwood beadboard that covers the ceiling of the Gothic Farmhouse. The kitchen space was once two rooms and in one of the rooms the paint on the ceiling was better than the other so I only had to strip half of the large room which now measures 14 feet by 30 feet, plus a bay window. Becky is painting the ceiling now and is nearly finished. Next to do is the floor, we are hoping to reuse the old flooring that was removed,  unfortunately there is not enough to cover the entire room so we are hoping to use 1x6 fence boards that are the same thickness and vertical grain.

Tools for removing paint.

Upcoming projects include more windows (jambs and sashes) for a shop, I will be using salvaged fence boards for the jambs and those chunky 3x12's for the sashes. One of the windows will be a stained glass unit that will be single hung with weights and pulleys and drop down into the wall framing.

Another project is building upper cabinets for an Arcata rental to match the existing cabinets. Whoever built these had fun with a simple carving under the sink and the shelf brackets that will be coming down.

Maple slabs to dissect.

Off to the shop to begin cutting cabinet parts out of two inch maple slabs that I had milled from our last home nearly ten years ago.