Another Shower In The Forecast

28 February 2020

Amy has been hard at work in the study removing the 130 year old shellac from, well, everything.


This area has been cleaned of old shellac and received a fresh coat of new amber shellac. She has not tried to clean the old shellac out of all the bead detail because it would be A LOT more work, and we like how it makes the detail in the woodwork pop. The diagonal bead detail looks weird because it's a bright sunny day today and light is reflecting off the finish. The upper right corner of the mantel is visible. It has been cleaned off, revealing a faux finish. She hasn't put new shellac on it yet.


The mantel in this room is pretty fancy, at least for our victorian farm house. There are a pair of columns with a decorative piece at the top. I think they're called capitals. One of them is broken.



If anyone has any experience or knowledge about repairing or replicating these, I would love to hear from you.

I have been moving along with the shower in the master bathroom. I've approached this being very conscious about total weight here because we've build the master bathroom on the second floor without altering any of the original framing, basically 2"x8" joists 24" on center. So the Schluter shower pan and curb are made of styrofoam. I'm doing the floor and curb with tile because of the very irregular angles.


We're doing the walls with Dumawall, an acrylic product, much lighter than tile. Very easy to install, the tiles just get glued on, but the shower is somewhat small, so there's a lot of fitting and cutting.


The finished product looks pretty good!



We're excited to be able to take shower soon in 'our own' bathroom. I just need to trim around the top edge, finish installing the exposed pipe shower faucet, and put in a curtain.

We also added a couple of shelves in the guest bathroom.


Comments

  1. You both have the patience of Job and a high tolerance for mind-numbing repetitive work. And spectacular results! Gold standard as far as recasting mantel capital losses is Abatron. https://www.abatron.com/product-category/moldmaking-compounds/ Making a mold and casting a replacement are fairly straightforward, fitting is tedious. File, fit, try, repeat. But you're no strangers to constructive tedium, what?

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    1. Thanks! We'll take a look at the link. 'Constructive tedium', that's funny, but sadly, true.

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  2. Just noticed that your capitals are cast, not carved wood. This was the best thing I read about DIY'ing that kind of a job, though this is replacing cast iron. https://victoriaelizabethbarnes.com/antique-garden-urn-restoration/

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