Another Before And After

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Please allow me to indulge myself… It may not be perfect, but it is so much better!

And To Cap It Off…

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My daughter’s birthday party is this weekend. As a result, I was motivated to cap off the stair wainscot paneling last night. It’s bed moulding, just as the lower portion; a workable alternative to a “real” cap. Over this past weekend, I was able to put on three coats of shellac. One more coat tonight and then the handrail can go back up. My project list continues to shrink; a step in the right direction to be sure.

Wainscot – We Got

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panel mould, plywood, stairs, trim, wainscot, white pine

I finished up the stair wainscot today, sans cap. I’ve been putting this off waiting for warmer weather so I could set up my chop saw on the front porch, but I decided that it was time regardless. So I did the whole basement-staging-area-thing (up and down the stairs a billion times). I hate doing that because my legs always cramp up during the night (which they did).

This time around, I built a jig to make the severe angled cuts (68 1/2 and 56 1/2 degrees) for the panel moulding. When I did the first section of wainscot I did that all freehand which was really quite stupid; this took all the guess-work out of it. I was actually done with all the trimming yesterday (with the exception of two panel mould pieces) — 10 hours worth of work. Today, I added the bedroom door trim so the last two moulding pieces could go up. The next thing is the cap and a couple coats of shellac. The handrail is already done, it just needs to be installed again as before.

Before the panel mould