Had just about enough of drywall?  Yeah, us too.  We don’t really see a light at the end of the taping-and-mudding tunnel yet, but why don’t we take a break from all that dust anyway and talk about something a little more exciting?

This weekend, we built things out of wood.  And, lo, it was wonderful. 

We built this:

Bathroom_2

The beadboard in front of the tub, that is.  It currently has one layer of finish on it with another to come.  The tile that is missing has been missing since the day after we tiled back in August.  We have a problem with getting things fixed around here.  We don’t want to take time to backtrack right now, so if something breaks/starts peeling/pops off we just leave it like that.  We take a similar approach to housecleaning (why bother?  It’s just going to get dirty again in five minutes), so we don’t recommend looking too closely at the shower.

But that wasn’t nearly enough beadboard for the likes of us:

Dormer_1

This is the dormer in the second bedroom.  We thought narrow beadboard on the ceiling would be a nice touch and so far it looks like we were right.  We stopped halfway because we ran out of wood.  We could have gone to buy more wood to finish up, but Cherie and the miter saw were having some disagreements.  Sometimes it best just to walk away.  But we are very pleased with how the ceiling is turning out.  After it is all done, we’ll show you how we angled the peak of the dormer back in a very cool way.  You can’t see it from this shot, so don’t even bother trying.

To get to this point, of course, we spent most of Saturday sanding and priming the walls. But we aren’t going to talk about drywall.  We are all about the beadboard.  Beadboard, beadboard, beadboard.  Isn’t there something else that needs beadboard?  Less drywall, more beadboard.  Give beadboard a chance.  To beadboard or not to beadboard, that is that question.

Okay, that’s it.  We’re done.  And we’ll stop sniffing the wood finish.

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