Patting My Own Back

Pulled up the rattyass carpet and padding to find decent hardwood floors. Sanded and refinished floors…no small feat seeing as it was my first attempt at floor refinishing.

pulled out all wall anchors and patched cracks in plaster. Once again …No small feat. Yes I used to do drywall for a living but I’m horible at doing finishes in plaster. The guy that did this place was a master craftsman. Most of the rooms In my house have been redone, but the living room has only seen paint in the last 50 years. The walls are perfectly straight. And aside from a few small cracks and nail holes, it’s perfect. I did a fairly good job on the blending in of the old and new stucco finish. There is a 12 inch cove at the top of the wall thats perfectly straight and smooth…All done by hand. The ceiling has the same finish as the walls. Like I said before …the guy that plastered this house was a craftsman.

The wood work arround the windows…Not original. Some jack ass thought he was Bob fucking Villa and made his own window ledges. This guy was no craftsman…This guy was border line retarded. The ledge itself was held in place by about 65 finishing nails. Fucking hack. So I tore all the crap off from arround the windows. Re-leveled the windows and re-boxed them in. Went to my brothers place and found a really nice piece of Hard White Maple. Plenty of charactor ( worm holes and dark streaks ) I planed it down to about 1.5 inches thick  and made it into a nice big 10inch X 6foot window ledge..I clear stained it and the 3 support legs and did the rest of the window in a white trim.

Painted the walls a nice dark color…Red Brick. It looks like a redish milk chocolate in daylight. Ceiling is a Toasty grey. Cove and all the trim work in the room is Opal White…Fuck if I know the difference of what white it is…it’s white.

I have no experience in wood working other than making a picknik table. I work with steel …have worked with steel for the last 15 years…Wood is sort of new to me. All these shows on the television that show you how to remodle your entire house in a weekend…FucK you ….I’ll never do a remodel over a weekend…I want the fucker to look good in 50 years …The ledge alone took 1 week…Whole house in a weekend…Fuck off!