Well change of plans! We had an even bigger weekend!
I had also mentioned that we bought a chair and desk for the study, so here is that pic...
So I let the customer service lady at Target know that it looks to have been returned before and there were chunks taken out of the edges, so hopefully it doesn't get put back on the floor and sold again.
Ok so back to this weekend.
Friday - Chance and I got off work and decided we were going to knock a ton off the list when we got home. We decided to grill out first, so I went by the grocery store to pick up some steaks and sides. Got home, unpacked groceries, started the grill, hung outside on the patio (weather was perfect)....and we didn't move from the patio all night. First night = 0% of projects were accomplished, but that's ok because this was actually the first weekend night that Chance and I had both been there without any family or friends. So it was nice to catch up and not have to worry about getting to bed early.
Saturday - we knew we had to kick it into high gear since we lounged around and relaxed the night before. So we woke up bright and early Saturday, made a pot of coffee (that's always #1 in our home), I made a breakfast that we really love (super easy too, here is the recipe)
Breakfast Sausage Pinwheels
Ingredients:
Breakfast sausage (cooked)
1 cream cheese (melted into the sausage)
1 crescent roll (unrolled on greased baking sheet)
Directions:
Place cooked sausage with melted cream cheese onto crescent roll, roll crescent roll up like a pinwheel.
Cook at 350 and set a 15 min timer.
**I've made these countless number of times at my parents and had to cook them for 30 mins, but at my house the crescent was already golden brown at 15 minutes, but the inside crescent part wasn't fully cooked, so I'm going to have to find the perfect cooking temp and time on my new oven.
So we ate breakfast and then started painting. After a whole 10 minutes of that we were bored. Chance asked what else was on the list and I told him about the shelves and more painting we needed to do. I also mentioned I wanted to do a tongue and groove wall in the study some day....rule #1: don't mention a project where your guy will be able to buy new tools to make the project happen. It was at that moment that I lost any chance of Chance painting all day.
We decided to take a painting break and do the tongue and groove. So we ran out to Home Depot and Lowes and bought the following items for this project:
- 18 - 1x6x8 tongue and groove pieces of pine (when I did my calculations for this wall, I calculated those pieces at 6 inches...WRONG! Keep reading)
- 16 feet worth of trim. It was only $1.25 and we couldn't believe it, we thought we were getting a steal....yeah that's by the foot. When we got to the register and the guy said he had to measure it, I'm thinking "well why does it matter if it's $1.25?" and when $20 popped up it hit me. DUH! Blonde moment to say the least.
- Elmers Wood Filler in white
- Tape measure (Chance doesn't like my little baby hot pink one. He says it doesn't measure far enough...mhmm I'm so sure that's the reason)
- Chalkline - my favorite thing we bought for this project!
- Zinnser BIN primer - I've heard lots of great things about this, so lets hope it covers the knots
- White paint
- Last but not least...at HD and couldn't have done this project without this...a miter saw.
- Oh wait, one more item that's kind of important, and we had to go to Lowe's for this one - a nailgun. Chance picked up a Paslode 16 gauge finishing gun.
A pic I took at HD and posted to Instagram:
Went home and proceeded to follow these below steps:
- Bring materials in
- Get your stud finder out and mark the studs across the wall. We marked the studs at 4 different heights so we could easily mark with the chalk line.
- Create a chalk line of your studs
- Start your planking, and make sure each row is level. In addition, we used a piece of scrap wood and placed it on top of the row and hammered each row down, so we were sure the tongue and groove were flush together.
- This is why the chalk line is so worth it, you can see exactly where your nails need to go to get them in studs.
Almost done! This actually moves along really fast once you get the hang of it.
We got near the top and realized we were out of wood. How could this be?! I measured precisely 6 inches per piece of wood...oh wait...these are 1x6x8, and measure at 5 inches across, UGH! So back to HD for the second time today to get 3 more 1x6x8s.
- Continue adding your rows
Wait...how are we still short?! This I cannot figure out and have no answer for. I must've been tired at this point, so back to HD for the third trip of the day to get 5 more 1x6x8s.
- Continue adding even more rows
We got to the very top for the last row and a 5 inch piece of wood would be too big, so we decided we would not be going to HD and we would finish this on Sunday! But I did fill in the nail holes and where the pieces of wood met with the wood filler.
Had to pull the electric plugs out of the box and will attach to the wood after we paint it.
We did a little bit more painting and ordered dinner in and watched our favorite show, The Blacklist. It's so good! If you aren't watching it, you should be.
Sunday - Woke up bright and early...again...we don't have curtains in our bedroom so it's really hard to sleep in since it's bright so early with the time change. Turn the coffee on, reheat pinwheels leftover from yesterday, eat breakfast and back to work we go. The night before I applied the wood filler, and today I was paying for not sanding it that same night. I was sanding by hand at first because I figured the spots were so small it wouldn't be that hard. Yeah, the wood filler almost becomes cement. So I had to get the electric hand sander out and go to town!
Here is a picture after sanding, and I'm fast forwarding to a pic taken later in the day to show the trim we added once we added the very last small row (wanted to keep all pics together).
Chance and I decided we were only making one trip to HD today, so I had to take that very seriously and triple measure everything we needed for the house. We flew through building the plank wall last night that we decided to tackle the foyer (different type of wood treatment) and the master bedroom (same as study wall). So I sat down with paper, pencil and a calculator. I was able to calculate the master bedroom easily because the ceiling height is the same as the foyer so I knew I needed exactly 17 rows of wood plus a small piece at the top. Now, over to the foyer. Here is a picture of what I want:
I knew I needed to know where the studs are located, so I started marking those like I did in the study, but then remembered we would be putting huge pieces of smooth wood over the wall, so I marked them with tape across the baseboard.
Next step, figure out how many 4'x8's of extra thin plywood I would need to cover the wall. The point of this step is so the squares have no texture.
I needed 3 huge panels plus 1 to cut to fill the other space.
When we got to HD we had them cut one of the 4'x8' to size so we didn't have to later. I had them turn the 4'x8' sideways and cut me a 19" piece all the way across 8' for the top left/top center section, a 3.5"x8' for the right side of the wall, and a 19" wide piece 51.5" long to fill the top right section. I wanted it to look like this:
I also needed two 1/2" thick MDF for the strips. I wanted my strips 4" wide so I figured on a 4'x8' sheet of MDF I would get 12 strips that were 8' tall. I liked how the blog I got this idea from, had a 6" strip across the top because by the time you add crown molding, 4" of the strip will show. Turns out the 4'x8's are actually 49"x97.5", so just another thing to consider, doesn't hurt your math that bad. So for the second piece, you get two 6" pieces, and only nine 4" strips out of that 4'x8' panel, but this should be plenty.
So for this wall we attached the 2.7mm 4'x8' hardwood plywood panels to get that smooth wall:
*blue tape below denotes studs.
Then I realized that where the boards come together you ABSOLUTELY have to put a strip of wood to cover it. I just thought I was going to use some wood filler and call it a day...NOPE! The wood is so thin it actually has air pockets in it....and if you ever create this wall you will quickly realize the same thing.
So we stopped here because I need to do some different calculations. At this time, I'm thinking we are going to calculate where we want the squares exactly and then cut these panels into individual squares (a little bigger than what will actually show, that way the seams hide behind the 4" strips). Stay tuned on this project!
Moving on! Into the master. We bought some 12 foot long tongue and groove pine pieces (exactly like the study but 12 feet long instead of 8). We thought it would go faster since we didn't have to make as many cuts but it actually took longer and was more frustrating because that 4 foot difference leaves a lot of room for the board to be warped, the female part of the board to not be perfectly straight, etc. So after hours of assembling this wall it's finally finished. While at HD we bought all the 12 footers we could get, and then had to get some 8 footers to fill the rest. It didn't occur to me that HD would have such a limited selection of boards so while we were there I had to do some quick math....which I wasn't excited about because we had already agreed there would only be one HD trip today. But my math was spot on. We bought the exact same tongue and groove and had them cut off the male part on top. I measured before we left the house and knew we needed about 4 inches or so. When the guy was cutting all of our wood I told him 4 inches, and Chance stopped me and said we should do 3 inches just in case. Thanks goodness for Chance! 4 inches would've been a really tight fit and 3 inches fit in there perfect with just a tiny space above but that's ok because we are going to be adding crown molding, so it will cover the space. Added the trim (as well as the study pieces) and called it a night.
On Monday night I plan to fill the nail holes with the wood glue, let it dry (15 mins), sand it, let it dry (2 hours) then prime and paint. While I'm waiting during that 2 hour gap between sanding and painting, I will move on to the study to prime and paint that wall, and hopefully before the night is over I can put some more thought into the grid wall in the foyer.
Here is the master:
Then I realized that where the boards come together you ABSOLUTELY have to put a strip of wood to cover it. I just thought I was going to use some wood filler and call it a day...NOPE! The wood is so thin it actually has air pockets in it....and if you ever create this wall you will quickly realize the same thing.
So we stopped here because I need to do some different calculations. At this time, I'm thinking we are going to calculate where we want the squares exactly and then cut these panels into individual squares (a little bigger than what will actually show, that way the seams hide behind the 4" strips). Stay tuned on this project!
Moving on! Into the master. We bought some 12 foot long tongue and groove pine pieces (exactly like the study but 12 feet long instead of 8). We thought it would go faster since we didn't have to make as many cuts but it actually took longer and was more frustrating because that 4 foot difference leaves a lot of room for the board to be warped, the female part of the board to not be perfectly straight, etc. So after hours of assembling this wall it's finally finished. While at HD we bought all the 12 footers we could get, and then had to get some 8 footers to fill the rest. It didn't occur to me that HD would have such a limited selection of boards so while we were there I had to do some quick math....which I wasn't excited about because we had already agreed there would only be one HD trip today. But my math was spot on. We bought the exact same tongue and groove and had them cut off the male part on top. I measured before we left the house and knew we needed about 4 inches or so. When the guy was cutting all of our wood I told him 4 inches, and Chance stopped me and said we should do 3 inches just in case. Thanks goodness for Chance! 4 inches would've been a really tight fit and 3 inches fit in there perfect with just a tiny space above but that's ok because we are going to be adding crown molding, so it will cover the space. Added the trim (as well as the study pieces) and called it a night.
On Monday night I plan to fill the nail holes with the wood glue, let it dry (15 mins), sand it, let it dry (2 hours) then prime and paint. While I'm waiting during that 2 hour gap between sanding and painting, I will move on to the study to prime and paint that wall, and hopefully before the night is over I can put some more thought into the grid wall in the foyer.
Here is the master:
She is terrified of the nail gun and was laying on the cold ground of the garage on the complete opposite side of the house. Poor baby :(
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