After my horrible week spent in mattress final week, I used to be lastly capable of get into the studio yesterday and make some progress. And it felt so good to be again to work! I had initially deliberate on beginning with portray the ceiling, after which working my means down. However I made a decision to do the alternative. I’m beginning with the ground, after which as soon as it’s completed, I’ll cowl it with protecting paper, after which paint the partitions and ceiling.
I proceed to get feedback and messages from folks urging me to not redo the studio flooring, nevertheless it’s too late. 🙂 It’s already in progress, and it actually wanted to be completed. As I used to be going via the containers that had been lining the partitions for years now, and eliminating issues that I not need, I seen increasingly issues with the ground. Issues had leaked via the containers and stained the ground in a number of locations. Right here’s an instance. I do not know what this purple stuff is, nevertheless it was on two totally different locations on the ground.
Right here’s the opposite purple stain (perhaps ribbon that bought moist?), however you too can see how a number of the precise flooring boards had modified shade through the years. See how darkish and streaky this had develop into?
I had these darkened boards and areas all around the flooring. I’ve come to be taught that there’s in all probability no strategy to utterly conceal the tannins in crimson oak for the lengthy haul. In some unspecified time in the future, regardless of how a lot prep work you do to have these good, lovely, white oak flooring, the tannins within the crimson oak will ultimately make their strategy to the highest and darken the end. So after a number of years, the ground was not shiny and white. It was dingy with brown/amber streaks in locations.
After which over right here to the best of the aspect door is the place I had the two-foot-square space of water injury that I informed you about. It wasn’t horrible, nevertheless it additionally wasn’t insignificant, and it could have been simply in entrance of the financial institution of cupboards that can go on the wallpapered wall.
In order you possibly can see, I’ve began through the use of my handheld belt sander to sand the ground. I’m concentrating on these stained and broken areas essentially the most, however I’m additionally simply giving the entire flooring an excellent scuff sanding in order that the primer may have some tooth to seize onto. The topcoat that I used on these flooring remains to be very clean, so I wouldn’t need to put primer immediately on high of it with out scuffing the floor first.
Along with these areas that had develop into actually darkish and streaky, you too can see from above how the complete flooring (see the unsanded space in comparison with the sanded space) had simply darkened typically. I don’t know if that’s from the topcoat darkening through the years, or if it’s the response of the tanins within the flooring, however the complete flooring is considerably darker than it was once I completed these flooring years in the past.
So hopefully it’s just a little extra apparent now why I need to redo the flooring. I do know some would say, “I can’t consider you’re no more cautious together with your flooring!” However that’s the purpose. It is a studio the place I’ll be utilizing numerous artwork merchandise — oil paints, acrylic paints, resin, dyes, and so forth. — and a studio flooring wants to have the ability to take some abuse. I must have a flooring the place I can drip paints, resin, dyes, and so forth., after which when issues get just a little too uncontrolled for my style, I can have a simple repair to make them look good once more. The plain answer in my thoughts was a painted flooring.
The irritating factor about redoing the ground is that I noticed in a short time that I’d solely be capable of do half of the ground at a time. So this will likely be an attention-grabbing course of because it unfolds. Proper now, I’m engaged on this aspect of the room…
Whereas the opposite aspect of the room seems to be like this…
I initially had this grand thought in my head that I’d be capable of pack every little thing up good and neat into containers and retailer them someplace, after which roll my tables out of the room whereas I work on the entire flooring.
Nicely, that’s ridiculous. I’m right down to this studio as my final room that must be completed, so there’s actually nowhere to retailer an entire bunch of containers outdoors of this room. We use each single room in our home, and Matt can’t have a bunch of containers in his means. After which there are the tables. These are 61 inches sq.. The one potential strategy to get them out of the room is thru the again French doorways and below the carport. However with the climate we’ve been having these days (thunderstorms, hail, twister warnings), I actually don’t need my two tables outdoors, even when they’re below a carport.
So the one answer I might provide you with was to do the ground in two components. I’ll do the aspect I’m engaged on now — sand, wooden fill, prime, and paint — and when it’s dry, I’ll cowl it with the protecting paper and transfer every little thing to that aspect of the room and get began on the opposite aspect. Then when that aspect is completed, I can assemble my cupboards, put these into place, after which have precise locations to retailer these items whereas I end up the studio.
It’s not perfect, however generally we have now to make do and create workarounds once we dwell in our DIY initiatives! 😀 And I’ve full confidence that it’ll work out in the long run.
As a aspect word, I took the recommendation that lots of you gave me yesterday. My candy mother read my post yesterday and instantly texted me to say, “I’ll come assist you!” So she’s right here at the moment to assist me get my home again so as after final week. And as a number of of you instructed, I additionally moved the placement of our Wednesday gathering. For this week, we’ll be gathering at another person’s home, and that can give me extra time to get issues so as round right here. I went from wired yesterday morning to feeling zero stress at the moment. 🙂 And that gave me the liberty to work on my studio yesterday as an alternative of stressing out about my home.
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