Once I discovered the ease of shellac, there was NO GOING BACK. It sounds so intimidating, but it's the easiest stuff to work with, and incredibly forgiving. Do a coat, sand lightly, wipe, do another coat, repeat until you get bored, and it dries between coats in like an hour -- perfect for a short-attention span like mine, that would lose interest if it took five days to do three coats.
Now I just have to drill for the pull-out thingie, and figure out whether I'll even do insets for handles on the side (to close from when it's fully open). Not sure whether I'll bother, really, because it slides so smoothly.
oh and apropos of nothing, I have the next chapter of KmO about 80% done...
I love love love pocket doors. My house has them on almost all interior doors, and it's fantastic. You don't really realize how much space doors take up until you don't have to worry about it anymore. Of course, you also lose the door as a space to hang things from (hooks in the bathroom for robes, for example), but it's so worth it.
Pocket doors also make the house much more accessible for limited mobility folks, which is why my house has them - the house was built with my father-in-law in mind, who had really bad arthritis and was in and out of a wheelchair for the last 10 years or so of his life. So we have pocket doors, no stairs, and extra wide doorways, all of which are completely awesome.
My rambling aside, great choices on your part, and it looks gorgeous! :)
I love natural woods--my own kitchen is done almost entirely in pale oak (cabinets and hardwood floor) with pale green walls and a malachite-green Silestone countertop. The rest of my teeny condo is accented with honey-colored oak (all of my cabinets and stair railings).
I'm not nearly as handy as you are, though. I'll paint and/or varnish if I have to, but a chore rather than a pleasure.
> oh and apropos of nothing, I have the next chapter of KmO about 80% done...
Oooh! Yay!
I wasn't going to push, because I know how it is trying to write when there's no inspiration, but I'll be very happy to get the chance to see what happens next. (Love your Raymond Chandler quote icon, BTW!)
I haven't been writing lately, other than what's required for work--the events of this summer really silenced the voices in my head, and they haven't really come back yet. I've opened the files for my work-in-progress a few times out of a sense of obligation (I'm a writer, therefore I should be writig!) but realized I hate everything I've written for this first draft, and so have closed the files again, waiting for another time.
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Date: 5 Oct 2010 03:57 am (UTC)Now I just have to drill for the pull-out thingie, and figure out whether I'll even do insets for handles on the side (to close from when it's fully open). Not sure whether I'll bother, really, because it slides so smoothly.
oh and apropos of nothing, I have the next chapter of KmO about 80% done...
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Date: 5 Oct 2010 12:59 pm (UTC)I love love love pocket doors. My house has them on almost all interior doors, and it's fantastic. You don't really realize how much space doors take up until you don't have to worry about it anymore. Of course, you also lose the door as a space to hang things from (hooks in the bathroom for robes, for example), but it's so worth it.
Pocket doors also make the house much more accessible for limited mobility folks, which is why my house has them - the house was built with my father-in-law in mind, who had really bad arthritis and was in and out of a wheelchair for the last 10 years or so of his life. So we have pocket doors, no stairs, and extra wide doorways, all of which are completely awesome.
My rambling aside, great choices on your part, and it looks gorgeous! :)
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Date: 5 Oct 2010 05:41 pm (UTC)I'm not nearly as handy as you are, though. I'll paint and/or varnish if I have to, but a chore rather than a pleasure.
> oh and apropos of nothing, I have the next chapter of KmO about 80% done...
Oooh! Yay!
I wasn't going to push, because I know how it is trying to write when there's no inspiration, but I'll be very happy to get the chance to see what happens next. (Love your Raymond Chandler quote icon, BTW!)
I haven't been writing lately, other than what's required for work--the events of this summer really silenced the voices in my head, and they haven't really come back yet. I've opened the files for my work-in-progress a few times out of a sense of obligation (I'm a writer, therefore I should be writig!) but realized I hate everything I've written for this first draft, and so have closed the files again, waiting for another time.