In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
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UPDATED: Friday, September 11, 2026 15:29
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Off to my doctor's tomorrow at 9am. Ears have to be flushed out and there is a nurse that does it.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
I think leaving them is alright. I doubt anyone will pay attention to what the inside of a drawer looks like.
Thanks for the input, Brenda.
Yeah... I think that's what I'm going to do. With the kitchen ones I went kind of crazy. I didn't just paint everything, but I caulked every seam inside of all the cabinets and the drawers too before final paint went on. Then I bought bright white contact paper to cover all the cabinet shelves and drawers too. Like I said, they've held up perfectly all these years now, but that's just so much work. Even for one vanity I don't really feel like doing it. And because the light wood drawers cleaned up so nicely, I really don't have to.
I lied about the painting. I already painted the first coat on the vanity and I've got a fan on it now. Probably going to put the 2nd coat on it before I clean up the paint.
Late night again, but totally worth it. Vanity looks awesome, even without doors or drawers.
I'll probably have some pics up soon on this one since it's inside and it won't get me doxxed by tweedle dee and tweedle dumb.
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Done and done.
Thought I wouldn't even get to priming today and I put 2 coats of paint on the vanity.
Looks awesome. Can't wait to finish the doors and drawers now.
Gotta start getting the medicine cabinet and over the toilet cabinet/towel racks ready to rock.
I'm not sure how much of a mess I'm going to have to make to get my electric where I want it to go yet. I will be putting an outlet in that toilet cab. Not sure if I want to put it inside the doors, or in the little nook that's underneath them. Having my beard trimmer plugged in would be easier for me to use if it was in the nook, but then that isn't hidden when people come over. Gotta think about that one.
I'm guessing that I can probably tap into the box for the vanity light fairly easily through the hole where the current in-wall medicine cabinet is. I just have to make sure I do my electric up right when I get to that point. I'm going to install a GFCI outlet next to the light switch, and daisy chain that to the 1 or 2 other outlets I will be adding. That can be either really easy or a bitch, depending on how the electric was done behind the walls. If they screwed me and used either romex or flex conduit to get to the light, I'm probably going to have to spring another $40 for a 3-pack of GFCI outlets and just make each outlet a GFCI since I won't be able to daisy-chain them.
I think I'm going to skip putting in a ceiling vent/fan or a light above the shower, as much as I wanted to do it. My walls and ceiling are so thick and hard to cut through because of the way that they made them, and that it would be a bitch of a job. Also, unfortunately, the joists in the ceiling run perpendicular to the direction I'd be putting in the new electric, so I couldn't just fish a length of flex conduit between joists up where I need it as I'd have to remove drywall so I could drill holes in the joists to get it through.
Perfect is the enemy of good.
I've talked myself out of doing work like this because of all the extra things I was going to do and how much work it would take. Let's just get it done and except for the 2 closet bifold doors I still need to do, that's pretty much the entire 2nd floor finally finished.
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There we go... 
Big day.
Not only is all of that done, but all the drawers and the bottom is empty and I'm going to make good decisions of what actually needs to go back into them when I'm done.
You can see how I squared out everything that will be visible on the left side of the plumbing hole mess. I didn't make that perfect because it would have required probably a few hours of filing since it's hard rock plaster and not drywall, but that's why I'm going to frame it out with that cabinet trim. Now that I've painted everything that was visible in the hole, you can see how it all just kind of blends in instead of looking all disgusting-like.
My hips and my everything are killing me right now because of all the weird positions I've been in all day. I'd better get this work done quick if I'm going to keep getting older everyday.
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What do you think about the vanity size, Brenda?
If I were to have gotten a vanity that was 6" wider like my dad suggested, don't you think that would be right up on you while you were on the toilet?
I want to get the majority of this before my dad comes back from his vacation, and I'm hoping once he sees that I've evened out the vanity, mirror and light and I got that shelf off of the wall above the light switch that this one is pretty much the perfect size for the room.
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Boy... I guess I needed a lot of sleep after that.
I've been getting up before 8AM for days now since my dad came in, and today was no different. But I knew I wasn't ready to actually get up and I went back to sleep and just woke up now.
Yeah... My body is wrecked. So many weird positions, and I think I'm getting too old to sit cross-legged.
Looks like it rained outside earlier, but my grass is really short so that won't matter if it doesn't rain anymore. Hourly says 49% chance of rain in the 2PM hour and that's it, but the minutecast shows no rain for the next 3 hours so I think I may have caught a break.
I was going to get back to hand sanding all the slats on that last bi-fold door, but I think I'll probably take the faces off the 3 drawers and do those and the door to the cabinet first. I could probably prime those right afterward while I go to sand other things. I could at least have both sides of those things primed by tomorrow.
I'd want a few days for the door and drawer faces to cure before I put them all back together, which is fine because I have to take time to cut all that cabinet trim to size and sand/prime/paint them to have them installed (at least on the inside) before I put the drawer slides back in, since it would be nearly impossible to add the piece to the right corner and one side of the opening if the slides are in.
I'm just not going to worry about it too much or overthink it. Tons of work to do. Just do something, right?
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Originally posted by Brenda:
I think leaving them is alright. I doubt anyone will pay attention to what the inside of a drawer looks like.
Thanks for the input, Brenda.
Yeah... I think that's what I'm going to do. With the kitchen ones I went kind of crazy. I didn't just paint everything, but I caulked every seam inside of all the cabinets and the drawers too before final paint went on. Then I bought bright white contact paper to cover all the cabinet shelves and drawers too. Like I said, they've held up perfectly all these years now, but that's just so much work. Even for one vanity I don't really feel like doing it. And because the light wood drawers cleaned up so nicely, I really don't have to.
I lied about the painting. I already painted the first coat on the vanity and I've got a fan on it now. Probably going to put the 2nd coat on it before I clean up the paint.
Late night again, but totally worth it. Vanity looks awesome, even without doors or drawers.
I'll probably have some pics up soon on this one since it's inside and it won't get me doxxed by tweedle dee and tweedle dumb.
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You are welcome SIX.
Caulking everything before you painted was probably a good idea.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
What do you think about the vanity size, Brenda?
If I were to have gotten a vanity that was 6" wider like my dad suggested, don't you think that would be right up on you while you were on the toilet?
I want to get the majority of this before my dad comes back from his vacation, and I'm hoping once he sees that I've evened out the vanity, mirror and light and I got that shelf off of the wall above the light switch that this one is pretty much the perfect size for the room.
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That work you did looks great SIX. And from what I can see. Yeah, I think if you'd gone bigger you would have been right up close to the toilet. You need some space there.
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Got back earlier than I thought I would but that was because of the early appointment. . Anyways ears all cleaned for the audiologist on Monday.
Groceries done and I even managed to get some old paperwork put away. Though I discovered under what I put away was another pile of paperwork that I thought I had put away. Will either do it later or tomorrow.
It is around 62F here but there is a cold breeze blowing. And cloud cover does not help.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
That work you did looks great SIX. And from what I can see. Yeah, I think if you'd gone bigger you would have been right up close to the toilet. You need some space there.
Thanks, Brenda.
I'm on the fence about fixing that "pit" in the center. I noticed the top piece of veneer on that thin plywood had water damage and bubbled up, so I had to cut around it anywhere where it was loose before priming... then I got carried away painting two coats before putting wood putty on there and sanding it down. Now that I put semi-gloss paint on it, the wood putty might not stick that well. I'm thinking I'll probably just cut out a piece of that thin brown fiberboard stuff that I've used to patch up the sides of cabinets, make new drawer bottoms and to protect the floor of the cabinet under my kitchen sink and call it a day. More than half of that pit would be covered by the drawers anyway, and if I can just put a nice piece on the other side after I cut it down to size, nobody should ever even know it's there.
No rain today! At least not after I got outside. A full 6 hours of sanding and I still didn't get everything done.
Let's see... Got the last piece of trim going under the kitchen window sanded... The over-the-toilet cabinet sanded as well as the 2 doors and single shelf for it... the 3 drawer faces and the door for the vanity sanded... the door and shelves for the medicine cabinet... and 4 pieces of that cabinet trim that I'm going to finish off the inside and the outside of the vanity with.
Thankfully, I should have enough of that cabinet trim left to do the job. For some reason between the two long cardboard tubes of them I got form my friend, I thought I had a whole lot more of it, but that was it. I don't need it for thresholds anymore, but I was hoping to have enough to frame out my electric box and the network box next to it in the basement. I guess I'll just have to spring for some more narrow-ish strips of wood, or rip my own to get that job done. Oh well...
Another good day, but I'm done for now. No primer or painting for me tonight. I think I should be able to get all this done before my dad comes back with time to spare.
All I have left to do is hand sanding on 3 pieces. Have to finish off the medicine cabinet, the bi-fold door with the slats and the super-decorative towel rack with the shelf above it and I won't need to be sanding anything else for a while.
I do want to sand down a nice chest that I got from my grandma's basement. I have two of them. One is a really nice antique piece, but the bottom broke. I'm going to restore that for myself at one point. But the other one is good except it needs a new locking mechanism. My aunt seemed to really want that one at one point, but then decided she wasn't going to take it. A few years ago I wanted to sand that down and stain it the same color as the rest of her furniture that she was so proud of buying on her own without credit. She's going to be retiring soon, so I'd like to have that finished as a retirement present for her.
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