HOC: Breezeway
The weather is turning cold and I’ve finally gotten the breezeway into good condition. I have, in the past five months:
That’s a lot! Yay!
The Curse of the Evil Beige Paint
When I moved into the tiny House-of-Chaos in May 2009, the walls were painted with that cheap, beige paint that you can get for about $50 for 5 gallons. Ick. Ugh. Ooof.
It had to go, but to what? I know I have a lot of work in all areas of the house, so what to tackle first? One of my goals is to do all of the renovations out-of-pocket and not to gain any additional financing to support a remodel.
So I got an idea one day: The ugly gray paneling that was in the breezeway, well it extended into the dining area up to the chair-rail. What was behind that paneling?
The hole behind the paneling
Ah. There are holes behind that paneling, and water stains from where the roof leaked. Now that the roof has been replaced I’m not worried about water continuing to damage the walls, but I’m also not really into replacing all of the walls quite yet.
So I took the paneling off:
Removing the Paneling
Gave her a new coat of gray paint:
Cut in the windows with a sharp new white after sanding them down as best as I could:
Original Window Yuckiness
Installed new nickle-finish hardware on the window sashes and latches:
New LatchesInstalled new birch plywood project panels which I stained ebony with my magick molding stain (now expanded to just “magick stain” since we’ve extended past the molding):
And installed new molding for the chair-rail:
White composite chair-rail molding
and the baseboard:
To finish we stripped the extra paint from the registers and air intake vents and repainted them a satin black:
and ta-da! It now looks like this!
Dining Room - after
Dining Room - After
The whole set of images from the entire project can be viewed:
After painting the ugly gray paneling to a light-blue color I noticed that the ceiling and molding of the Tiny House-of-Chaos breezeway was cracked and dingy. It needed a coat of paint too and there was a can of low-quality white paint left in the garage from whoever painted the Tiny House before we moved in. Not the optimal choice, but would it do in a pinch?
Yes it would:
