Hidden Spaces

While the guys have been chipping away at the kitchen, I've been chipping away at other projects.

The second floor back hall had a number of things that needed to be corrected. The work for the mater bath and dressing room relocated some doors. There were also some drawers and a glass linen hutch that moved from the back hall into the dressing room.

There was no floor where the drawers had been, which was repaired by the guys and refinished earlier in the summer.

There also was not base molding where the drawers had been and where the doors had been moved.

I also needed a place to install an air bleed vent for the master bath's in-floor hydronic heat. There was really no elegant place to locate it in the bathroom, so I created the access to it from the back side of the wall in the hall.  If you look closely at the picture, you can wee that there's not a lot of clearance below the drain for the sinks.

There was just enough base molding salvaged from the kitchen to fix the back hall. It's a four piece molding. This picture shows the first piece after installation.

The right side show a piece cut to fit around the radiator screen at the top of the back stairs.

In the center you can see the salvaged flooring that was used to patch the hole where the drawers used to be.

This photo shows the second piece after installation.

Again the pieces wrap around the corner to meet up with the radiator screen.

I've also left a gap that's beveled so that I have a removable panel to access the bleed valve.

In this photo, you can see the installed cap along with the completed removable panel.

We had the base shoe made to match the old profile. It still has to be primed and installed.

Lastly, you can see what it looks like after the panel has been removed.

It just slides in and out along the wall.

All that remains is paint!