Hey–
Well- I added some cleating to both holes and sealed them back up!
And you see I’d already started painting back there- the grays we used elsewhere weren’t doing it for us so we went Chocolate!
–Uh, huh–and then I started CRAVING something chocolate—
a Hershey’s bar, ice cream,
a milkshake–chocolate martini! Just SOMETHING CHOCOLATE!
Chocolate is ALWAYS a good idea!
So let me back up just a bit and show you what we started with.
An open stairwell. When the basement eventually gets finished, walls will be erected to define spaces. From down stairs, looking at the steps- the right side will become the mechanical-storage area. The left side is laundry AND possibly a future kitchenette COMBO.
It’s a very cool basement with LOTS of future potential!
The initial focus is just to close in that right section.
I framed in and hung plywood to close in the open space- up to the chimney. THAT we’d like to keep exposed! And figure out a way to clean back to the raw brick!
Two things here— you can see how the chimney is tipped, so I had to cut the stud to fit. AND, I added shims where the wall and plywood meet–I’ll explain shortly.
We’re closing THIS wall in with more Shiplap! We ripped more panel board to 10″ wide. It will be the fastest, easiest, and LAZiest way to fix wall & holes!
Panel boards were ripped to
10″ × 8ft strips.
I did start at the ceiling to lead with a full height board.
THEN- I drew lines on/down the wall at 10″ heights, measured every row and wrote each measurement ON the wall for efficiency.
THAT gave the angle for each board to be cut and fit to the sloped ceiling.
I cut out the cove in the flooring since we’ll apply base board to finish.
WHAT wall issues? Did the wall have issues?
When I got down to the bottom boards (at the floor), I used shims to ease the Shiplap boards over the 2 levels. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get the plywood to line up flat WITH the existing wall–but this worked out so the Shiplap boards hung relatively flat.
There were only 3 rows longer than 8ft, so I had to figure out
where the best seam lines would go to not look terribly awkward.
I guess I forgot to mention that I PREsanded & PREpainted each board before hanging–I sure didn’t want to paint and cut in over/in that steep stairwell!
THIS guy could only go SO long without some frisbee-time,
so it took longer than I planned for this “quick” job!
But he finally tired, and I finally finished!
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I closed in the door wall too,
and we added handrails-
which I’ll share next
with the other finishes!
Catherine
