In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Monday, September 7, 2026 11:50
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Nice. Painting is much quicker after you've got a good coat of primer and paint on there already. 2 coats on the flat panel door already, and finished the 2nd coat of the one louvered panel I hadn't done yet. Still have some paint in that bucket, which is pretty amazing. I didn't think what little in that bucket I left wrapped in the trash bag a few days ago would spread this far. I don't think I'll have enough to give everything one more coat with that, but I've got 3/4 of a bucket of it left I'll just have to mix again and give myself a little more to work with.
I'm going to throw any paint in there away when I'm done along with the bucket and that totally beat up dollar store brush though, so I'll need just a tad.
If I stay focused on this, I could have all the doors finished and hung in just a few more days. Maybe by Wednesday or Thursday at the latest, since I have to wait on that hardware and the tracks to come late on Tuesday, and I don't know how much I'll be able to get done when it comes to framing out the doors and hiding the height differences without that. I may even have to hang the doors and put the trim on while it's hung. I don't know yet.
That would be great if I could have the doors done and the lawn mowed by the weekend. That should give me plenty of time to get that chest out of the garage to start restoring for my aunt's retirement gift.
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Alright... Everything painted now except for the final coat on the last louvered door. I would have been working on that now, but I want to give that ample opportunity to dry before putting that last coat on. I've done good with drips, but with louvered doors you're going to inevitably have pockets in places where there's extra paint that takes longer to dry and you'll mess that up if you try to paint another coat over it too quickly.
I'm not too hopeful that I'll have it done early enough to dry by the time night falls. If I do try hanging it tonight, it will be by artificial light. I don't think I want to do that. We'll see.
I did dig up those ceiling light fixtures from my attic last week though. Maybe I'll put those up in the bedrooms and in the basement room that I bought all of them for.
I should have bought 1 more, but if memory serves, they were 3-packs for a steal on Woot.com, and I didn't need 6 of them. I really was just shopping for the bedrooms and the 3rd one was a bonus. I do have a nice ceiling fixture in the garage that just needs a little paint removed from it. It's got a "silver" finish on it, but that's nothing a little oil-rubbed bronze spray paint can't fix.
Unlike the vanity lights that were pretty intricate, I don't think spraying down the base of one of these circular dome lights is going to look super tacky, so it should be alright. That's going to be the afterthought 3rd bedroom in a leaky basement anyhow, so I don't think I'm going to go all out in that room for any reason.
Maybe I'll get my electric stuff out again and hang the two bedroom fixtures while I'm waiting for paint to dry. At least do one of them.
That should be nice. I don't remember if they're 2 or 3 bulbs each, but they're replacing these stupid little single-bulb ball lamps that I got at Goodwill 15 years ago just to put something up in the empty holes in the ceiling. Unless it's night time, you can't even tell that you turned that light on there's just so little light coming out of them, and even at night it's not really great. I may also consider buying special bulbs that are brighter for them too, instead of using my $1.00/box cheapo LED lamps you can find on occasion through your power company at places like Sam's Club and Costco if I want to brighten it up even more when it's done.
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Old man called me right before I was going to try hanging those lights, so that killed the time I needed to do the last coat of paint on the final louvered door. There was enough paint left in the bucket to give one more coat to the fronts of the flat door too, so even though it probably didn't need it I just went ahead and used it up. One more empty bucket out of the house.
I had a better look at that brush and although it wasn't a Purdy it was not a dollar store brush. So I did a real good job cleaning and that out and getting it back into reasonable shape.
Losing daylight now, but we've still got some time. It wasn't exactly bright all day with the cloud cover, but I'm not complaining since the temps in my house are a lot better than they have been recently.
I think I'm going to hang that ceiling light in the small bedroom where I have easy access to it and I could use the extra light while I'm dehoarding what's left in there to go through and I bring new stuff down from the basement.
The Master Bedroom light probably won't be too bad. I'll just be standing up on the bed to get it switched out instead of my step ladder. I don't think I'll get to that before it's dark though, and I really don't want to be using bright painters lights to get the job done while I'm standing on my bed.
I also found all 6 circular vents for the heat and the two rectangular ones for the walls in the basement out in the garage, so once I get the lawn mowed and I'm working on that chest for my aunt, I can be out there sanding down all of those vents along with all the hinges for the bifold doors so they can all get sprayed down with fresh paint.
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Jack is a very happy man.
I installed not 1, not 2, but all 3 of those light fixtures. 
The difference in light is STARK. Just two 60 watt equivalent LED bulb (something like 8 watts) and it looks like daylight in those bedrooms when it's dark out now.
I'll have to show you these ridiculous fixtures I had up there before. I can't believe it was so long ago now that I didn't remember they weren't even standard light bulbs. These things each had their own miniature ballast in them, and there was a plug-in fluorescent bulb in each one. Never seen nothing like them before, and that's why I can't believe I don't remember it. I know I put them up there. Obama probably would have still president for another 3 years after I did it though, so it was quite a while back.
Why so little light output though? I can't even think of the point of these things. I just thought I had 60w equivalent LEDs in each one, and because of the white painted on the glass it was just not very bright, but holy crap do I have a lot of light in there now. It's almost too bright. Not that you'll get sunspots if you look at them now, but probably not too far off from that. I might actually want to get 40w equivalents instead. I never imagined that would be the case. I could always get a dimmer switch put in there, but I do really like the light switches that I have in the bedrooms and in the hallway that are backlit with a few small LEDs so you can see the switches at night, and I'd have to make that trade if I do.
Anyway... Those brand new fixtures have been sitting around for so long in the attic that the white boxes they originally came in looked about as bad as my lungs probably do from the smoking up there. What a stupid, stupid thing that I waited this long to get it done.
Although, I do remember finally moving them up into the attic when I had that appraiser coming out when I was fighting my taxes and any little things like this that were finishing pieces on any rooms that were near finished wasn't something I was in any hurry to get up or even advertise I had and was planning on putting up. And the appraisal was fair. I don't think it should be that much, but then again, my house would sell for a lot more than I ever thought it would have when I bought it right now, as-is, even if I didn't put another minute of work into it.
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Man... I REALLY want to get that door hung tonight.
Will I do it?
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I'm thinking no on the door tonight...
I'm sure it's dry enough to handle it at this point, but I'd be working under some painter spotlights and this could end up being a job I don't really want to get into right now. If I knew it was going to go smoothly, I'd be doing it right now. There's still the issue of where exactly do I want that door knob, and I don't really want to be thinking about measurements and drilling right now.
I did put the hinges on and they look great. Not that you'll ever see anything but just tiniest bit of them when they're open in the front, but way better than the chrome ones on the other doors that got white paint on them. I've got half a mind to sand those down from the front, tape everything and protect it all with plastic and spray them right on the door like I did with the kitchen door hinges, but I've got way better things to be doing with work time right now. I'll put it on the to-do list and maybe do that later.
Oh... and how is this acronym a thing I've never heard of until Google AI told me today???
RAVEN
Remember : Affect is a Verb.
Effect is a Noun.
The difference between Affect and Effect has always been a big weakness in my English. I don't know why that is. I notice I have these weird quirks and mental blocks about some things.
This just fixed that. I'll never mix the two up again.
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Man.... If I didn't take a before photo of the louvered doors, I'm going to be mad. I had to have when I was out there sanding them. There's no way I didn't. That was probably right around the time I was doing all that re-org on my computer and maybe I just had a smallish folder I was using for more recent photos that got backed up somewhere right before I really ramped up work and started using the folder I'm using today to organize all these things by date. Super annoying that I couldn't find that to show you before/after pics.
I did find some more before bathroom pics though... even before I painted the window or pulled down the wallpaper border I had at the top, so at the bottom of this post I'll show them and their new counterparts. I also have some shots of the last day those two cabinets were sitting on my living room floor for over a year and I started working on them.
But first... The finished door (minus the track hardware and knob installation):
Back with hinges. Primed but not painted.
Front with FOUR coats of paint on top of the primer:
Shots of the cabinets before any work, both opened and closed. Sorry about them being washed out... That was with the bad camera and when that sun comes in during spring at that low level it's just blazing in the living room. Sorry I had them upside down on the living room floor too, but it gets the point across and it's the only shots I believe I have of them before I sanded anything down.
I can't believe I just had those sitting on my living room floor just staring up at me for like 2 years until I finally did something about it.
Here's a shot I didn't think I had, with my gross beard trimmer and electric toothbrush IKEA shelf above the only outlet in the room at the time. I'd already painted the door frame at this point, but I hadn't caulked anything yet.
The cool thing about this shot is right outside the door you can see the flat-panel bifold door that I took down and I'm replacing with the louvered door.
I'll definitely have to make another shot from this exact spot once I have that louvered door hung, but this is the closest new shot I could find along with the old one.
And I finally found a shot of the old towel rack before I took it down. I wasn't sure if I had one of those either. I'd say I'm making just a tad better use of that space now. 
And here's one from an angle I know I didn't take for any after shots, but it's got the window before I sanded it down and painted it.
You can also see how short the bottom piece was under the sill. I know that used to be the style years ago, but it always bothers me when I see it. The full piece end-to-end that I replaced that with actually came from a piece of the "baseboard" that I removed before painting. They didn't actually use baseboard and just used the door/window trim for baseboard and I just didn't notice it until I pulled it up.
And here's one of the vanity with all the original chrome hardware and the dark stain that was on it before I'd sanded anything down.
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Well, dang SIX! That looks classy!
That's really good looking!
But what was that border along the ceiling? Wallpaper?
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Well, dang SIX! That looks classy!
That's really good looking!
Thanks Sigs.
When I show you pictures of the back of the linen closet bifold door and how I used to leak paint all over when I was a drunk idiot, you'll see why I never would have attempted painting anything like those louvers 10 or 15 years ago.
Did you see the note on the 7th photo down that you can see the flat-panel bifold door that I took down for the linen closet and I'll be replacing with the louvered door?
I'm going to take another shot from that exact spot and angle as soon as I've got that new door up.
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Depth Perception is one hell of a thing too...
(ETA: I'll just repost the picture I'm talking about...)
I'm looking at that 7th picture now, and I can say with certainty that the new door and window trim I bought for the house is MUCH wider than the original stuff I've been replacing all over. I didn't replace any of it inside the bathroom though, because of just how close it was to the shower transition already. The door and window trim in both bathrooms is the only small trim in the house.
But look at that picture... You can't even tell. Just that 3 or 4 feet or so extra distance from the hallway and I think the trim in the bathroom actually might look just a little bigger.
And I think that because it's all caulked and painted up right now, the offset of the trim from the jambs and the bulk of the jamb itself give it the illusion of being wider than it actually is too.
I don't think anybody would ever notice that the trim in both bathrooms is smaller than the trim in the rest of the house unless I told them.
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