We keep a few frayed white shirts on hand, primarily as beach wear. On the tension rods I picked up this afternoon, they serve as temporary window treatments, anticipating the sheers that'll go in their place (soon).
...well not completely done, but I can fake it with this photo!
With the help of our dear friend Jordan we got the entire shelving apparatus installed in the dining room today. The four upright metal poles have adjustable posts with feet that are screwed into the ceiling and floor (4 screws per foot). Meaning, it's not going anywhere. The oak planks and cleats match the installation of the open riser stair treads (jut off to the left in this photo). They feel tight as a drum and strong enough to be building support rather than shelving.
Oh, and we finished installing all of the low voltage tech lighting. Hard to see the fixtures in the photo. They have a lovely crackle white glass finish.
Yesterday the redesigned table pedestal came back from the fabricator. Here it is featuring the small table top. The apron of that top still needs to be finished, but in general that's what it's going to look like. I put the large table top on it this morning and the stability issues of before have been totally resolved. Varnishing the large mahogany top begins today. As many coats as we want to get in, and with Thanksgiving only a week away, we're sort of down to the wire.
It was a lot for a Tuesday night, but we got both of the storage cubbies installed on either side of oven vent. Lots of prepping and predrilling made it more manageable than expected. The big brown squares will make more sense once those pieces laying on the counter tops are installed (tomorrow?)
and we got to buy a dancing tool!
Final pieces of molding in the dining room are going in-- the crown molding to be exact. Well, craown molding is a pretty fanciful term in this case. It's really 3/4" MDF cut into 8" strips to match the soffit drops on the second floor.
Not nearly as hard cutting around the beams as we had expected. We decided not to trim out where the chimney juts out. We liked the implied line that passes through without a ton of fussy molding.
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