It's been a fun week. The main goal was progress on the master bedroom. It has taken a lot of drywall mud(Scott has sore shoulders to prove it) and painting. Going with a country theme, the sloped wall will be tongue and groove while the flat walls will be "fake" shiplap. Faking shiplap requires slicing 4 x 8 sheets of plywood (we used 3/8 ths thickness) into strips (we went with 7 1/2" widths) then priming and painting all the edges. Without this step a person would see the natural wood colour between the boards when they are in place. We thought about using real shiplap however it wil be vertical and would have meant strapping out the walls, losing space.
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| Making shiplap "strips" of plywood |
Picking a beautiful, sunny and most importantly a windless day we spent an hour or so cutting up the plywood. Happy we didn't sell our table saw when we downsized to the motorhome.
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| Two stacks of cut plywood ready for painting |
Space was tight for the 14' long tongue and groove boards which also needed to be primed and painted. Found space by taking over the kitchen and balancing the boards onto a couple of chairs.
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| Paint booth |
With me starting work this coming week Scott agreed to take some time off working on the house to take a walk on the beach and check out the shoreline in winter.
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| Panting Shore - Northumberland Provincial Park Beach |
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| Beautiful waves in the snow |
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| Erosion takes more shoreline each year. The deck and trees were once all firmly grounded. |
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| Scott on a little "iceberg". Wood Islands Lighthouse in the distance. |
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| Lots of fun formations |
Wanting more ice we headed to Prim Point Lighthouse where there is a fair bit rafted up. We had lots of fun checking it out and had the place to ourselves, go figure.
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| Having fun exploring |
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| Woodpecker on the tree stump - a little hard to see |
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| A good amount of ice here |
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| Trying out the natural skating rink |
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| Point Prim Lighthouse |
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| Red cliffs of PEI in the winter |
We rounded off the trip by heading into Charlottetown for the final toilet and a few other supplies.
The next day we watched a large flock of Canada Geese land on the field next door. They hung out for a couple of hours, pecking at the field and resting. It was interesting to watch as they gradually went from being all over the field into lines on either side of the field and eventually taking off. I was back to painting at this time and couldn't just sit and watch them but did manage to get a few shots from the back door as they took off.
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| Almost done the tongue and groove |
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| Geese everywhere next door |
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| Hundreds of geese. The communication they have is fascinating. |
Back inside the house, Scott tiled the master bath shower. Later while mudding the bedroom for the 3rd time he looked out and saw a coyote very interested in something under a tree nearby.
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| Tiles in the master shower |
The coyote looked very healthy, hung out for 10 minutes or so and headed back behind the house. It's been fun seeing more wildlife lately. Out on Northumberland Strait we've seen a couple of larger ships go by including the coast guard icebreaker below.
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| Coast Guard ice-breaker passing by |
So much going on outside it's hard to focus on the inside sometimes LOL!! but we keep moving forward. Scott started on a second bedroom floor and we got the master primed, a first coat of paint as well as the tongue and groove installed.
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| 2nd bedroom floor started |
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| Ceiling paint |
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| Tongue & Groove ready for install |
It took some maneuvering to get the 14' long tongue and groove upstairs. First out through a window, back in, up the staircase and through 2 walls (luckily not drywalled yet) and then thread them into the master. A fair number of the boards were quite wonky and at 14' long this was definitely a 2-person job. They are up and will need another coat or two of paint but look great already.
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| Installing the tongue and groove |
Friday wasn't as nice outside. Freezing rain for most of the day, we lost our power twice in the evening and finally got to use the generator. Towards bedtime the temperature started warming up so the ice which had completely coated the house and trees started falling off. The trees sounded like they were raining. The house had large pieces of ice falling off with the crash.
Kinda fun from inside a cozy house.
I had felt more than a bit off Wednesday night. Dizzy to the point of throwing up. It was alarming particularly since I rarely get sick (knock on wood) and I was starting work soon. I wasn't a dizzy but a bit off for the rest of the week and we finally figured out that it was likely brought on by an excess of paint fumes and brushes in open paint solvent containers in this very tightly sealed house.
Now we're cracking the windows on nice days to help ventilate and Scott will get the ventilation hooked up soon to. Took us a while to figure out - not overly swift of us.
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Thrift store finds for house decor.
House being floated to the island. |
Normally we don't work much on Saturday but I was dying to know how the wall colour we'd picked would look so we got it painted. Only one coat as it will be covered with the "shiplap" soon.
Country and light colours are not are normal choices but we are liking it very much so far.
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Wall colour is a bit tough to see. It's a green/gray taupe. Benjamin Moore Florentine Plaster.
I love how it changes with the light. |
Full moon over an icy crust last night.
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