Bedrooms

Hickory flooring is a very hard material and is also hard to install!

First Steven needed to move the very large radiator. We cannot install flooring underneath the legs as it would then be too high for the water connections. We will lay flooring around the feet.

Hickory flooring is a very dense hard material. To install the first two rows, Steven had to drill holes for the nails and they were still difficult to pound through to the rafters. I had marked the position of all the rafters with a black marker and installed underlayment on top of that.

The wall was not straight with the lines of the underflooring so we needed to make adjustments in the first row. We got two rows almost finished before Steven didn’t have enough strength to sink the last row of nails.

The next rows will be installed with a pneumatic nailer which will make it much easier.

I hand painted a medallion for the stairway light. The medallion was another thrift store find.

Add the white paddles on the ceiling fan in the south bedroom. The light globes are Caprice design. We do not have a globe for center light as it is a wide opening. Will have to keep looking for something. There are also lights in the area above the paddles.

We also purchased 7 boxes of a darker 3/4″ hickory flooring which we will use in the south bedroom. We had also stored it in the garage. It sat on top of 8 boxes of lighter hickory 3/4″ flooring which we will use in the middle room. It is still in the garage. To get the flooring upstairs, Steven backed our car to the garage, slid the boxes of flooring into the car, drove the car around to the north side of the house and slid the boxes into the house. He then set up a way to slide the boxes up the stairs! Very ingenious and resourceful! We had purchased all the flooring at the Habitat for Humanity ReStore at a fraction of the retail cost.

We purchased 10 boxes of this hickory flooring. I will be installed in the north bedroom. I sorted it into approximate lengths so we can more easily find just the right length when installing. We had stored it in the garage. My daughter and son-in-law carried the boxes upstairs for us. Thank you Katina and Patricio!

I had thought I only had one more roll of the north bedroom wallpaper but discovered I had 4 more rolls. I finished the north wall and decided to also do the opposite wall where the bed will be placed. I also did one wall of the closet. Still have wallpaper left but decided to move on to the south bedroom. I had two rolls of wallpaper (again thrift store find).

The north bedroom radiator is spray painted the same color as the ceiling fan.

The walls and ceilings are painted and it is time to ready for the final electrical inspection. Steven installed the hall lights, the middle room ceiling light and the south bedroom ceiling fan and light. We had planned to install a fan in the middle room but Steven had a vintage light fixture he really wanted to use. The south bedroom fan and light fixture was a puzzle to determine how to wire it. It had a fan, a middle light fixture and then the lower light with globes. It was also an extremely hot day.