Monday, March 18, 2019

Toss those plans right out the (open) window!

I had considered re-potting plants and cleaning the basement this past weekend. The only basement thing I did was repair the chimney door (see previous post.)
Instead, because it was just so darn nice out Saturday (45 is nice, ok?) I threw open the windows upstairs to let the place air. I got to looking around. What did I need to do upstairs? I needed to put stuff away, but I was reluctant to stuff things into closets that needed attention.
Right.
Thus began the Great Closet Overhaul of 2019. I emptied out whatever had been put in the closets into their corresponding rooms and began scrubbing.
I'm pretty sure some of those closets haven't seen paint since they were constructed.
6 closets in total were scrubbed. 6 closets had holes patched. 3 are plaster over lath, 2 are... wallboard? 1 is a combination of the two. Everything is getting paint. Rods and shelves were removed! Floors were covered! (Or not. Some are painted, some are hardwood.) 3 have been primed! (Yay Kilz!)
Before:
One of the eve closets (there are two, I only took pictures of one, they look the same, with the exception that this one has a green stripe on the purlin? where as the other one was left white.) Plaster walls, some unfinished, with cleats for long-gone shelves and cracks where the house has settled. There's evidence that the green floor used to be in all the rooms on the oldest section of the house.

"New" closet in the bedroom over the kitchen. Wallboard and hardwood floors.
This narrow board floor is throughout the "new" section of the house, and appears to have a wax finish.

Old built-in closet in the main bedroom, over the living room.
This heating duct is the only source of heat for the entire second floor.

The other "new" closet. This one has a lock, which is a little curious.
I didn't take a picture of the "combo" closet because there's really no good way to photograph it.
This will need to be a multi-day process. I'll post "primed" pictures as I finish up that step.
(I also need to get some new closet rod.)

The basement can wait for weather so warm I want to be in the cold, damp basement.

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