My guy is quite a guy!!
First Tony framed up this new closet for the boys. The closet Caleb built is to the right, behind the melon door, see it? It's the shoe closet.
This closet is for all their clothing, dress up totes and the top of the top rack is for sleeping bags and misc stuff that boys seem to accumulate. ;)
First Tony had to hang all the shelving because it wouldn't fit in the doorways after the front was framed up.
Then he framed the front of the closet. That makes it sound so simple. Let me rephrase... he Framed The Closet! I think he/we reworked the plan about four times. See we already had that existing bit of wall to the right beside the shoe closet to contend with. We are trying to make everything equal and look like it was originally that way. It took a lot of planning, figuring, measuring, replanning... Then you must remember that this concrete is 35 years old and very cured. Very hard. I think he went through a drill bit every two holes. It was a LOT of work. And he smashed his finger. The same finger he bumped with the saws all. :( Very icky. Oh and then he got a couple of splinters in that same finger!! Remodeling is dangerous stuff!
See?! A nice big closet, I think it's nearly 12 feet wide. This closet will have louvered bifold doors as will the shoe closet.
Now the other part that my Super Guy did I don't have pictures of. He moved a receptacle from the demolished wall to a new wall. He moved the light fixture over so it was centered with the light fixture in the other room. He hung a light in the closet and moved that light switch over to a double gang box (I think that's what he said?). He and Luke spend a couple of very squished, itchy, cold hours up in the attic getting everything wired and rewired. Tony even figured out how to use the existing electric to branch off and make a switch for the closet light and get it in place!
We now have all the electric stuff D-O-N-E! He never ceases to amaze me.
And now he has decided that he doesn't like my 'make do' idea with the ceiling and he is removing the sheetrock and doing it the right way :) It's gonna be so purty!!
The boys are cleaning up the tools and Molly is prepping the walls for painting. We are so excited, it's all coming together so well!!
2 comments:
Wow! You've really had a productive few days! I do wonder though if Tony is secretly happy to go back to work and rest that finger for awhile
LOL... probably so. Bless his heart. He was up until after midnight last night. He leaves for work before 7 am. Long evenings make short nights.
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