PRESIDENTS DAY WEEKEND

tAfter the two days we had off last week we also have a LONG weekend... wow.. Friday night we worked late and grouted the kitchen floor.... Tommy did the grouting and I cleaned it up with the sponge. We used unsanded grout because the sanded would scratch the surface of the travertine tiles (we did that without knowing on the powder room floor)... Mistake we made was not picking up some rubber gloves and the grout does a number on your hands... it eats my hands alive, but it was worth it because it looks good...

Since we had the long weekend we decided it was time to start the trimwork. We went to the lumberyard on Saturday morning and purchased a majority of the trim we needed. We are going to do a craftsman inspired trimwork, not the colonial style. It is a bit more work but we like it better and it will make all the arched doorways and windows easier to trim. On top of the craftsman style trim we are doing a window stool on all the windows out of pine... we are going to stain the window stool to match the brazillian cherry hardwood floor we are going to put in and the trim will all be white. I hope it looks sharp. Anyway once we got the molding I painted the casing and Tommy set up all the tools in the garage. Then Tom's dad made the extension jambs for the 2nd floor with the shaper table (used to put the tongue on it) and his mom painted them. We cut the pine for the stools... but we aren't doing straight stools, they are going to be arched on the front lip... so we figured out how to make the curve since the radius is HUGE, like 60 feet for some windows... and got the router table set up and decided what bits we wanted to use for the stools... Tommy routed them out and I put the pocket holes and sanded them. We didn't finish them by the end of the day Monday but we had everything figured out and we now know what we want and how to do it.