Yeah, I am pleased with myself. I have to be, because no one else will be. 🙂
Anyway, I chopped down some sanded birch plywood to form a black over the unused token fireplace in my 6-7 year old cookie cutter home. I was thinking of what to trim it out in and caught something out of the corner of my eye when I picked up a PC brad nailer and compressor kit.
Seems homeless depot has the casement kits designed to replace the stale casements typically found in cookie cutter homes. Comes with three pieces of fluted boards, a pair of rosettes, and a pair of baseboard end blocks. Cost $24.99.
Ok, I picked it up, trimmed the stuff down, and installed it with the new PC brad nailer. Add caulk (boy was that an experience) and presto! Now I just need to paint it with some semi-gloss along with the rest of the painted wood fireplace surround, install the flatpanel mount, and hang the flatpanel.
BTW, this replaced an earlier idea of mounting the flatpanel above the fireplace. In six winters we’ve never used that token fireplace. It was just wasted wall space.
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A real craftsman would not have needed to use caulk.
:)
"Put your creed in your deed." Emerson
"When asked if you can do something, tell'em "Why certainly I can", then get busy and find a way to do it." T. Roosevelt
Good thing my day job does have the equivalent of caulk. So, caulk isn't needed by 'real' craftsman? Only adds to my conclusion that my house wasn't made by craftsmen.
we need pictures