Study Bath Update

The study bath was another one of those projects that didn't quite get completed. (Previous post about this room)

This room was mostly done except that I didn't paint the woodwork and I didn't strip and repaint the radiator. Because I didn't want to deal with it at the time, I allowed myself to get distracted with other projects. Now I have no excuses.

There isn't much woodwork to be painted in this room. A single small window, the rolling door to the storage area under the stairs, and the back side of the entry door.

The woodwork preparation exposed quite a history of color in the the various layers of paint. The oldest is cream, followed by tan, federal blue, red, green, and then a couple of variations on off-white/cream. I used Ivory Tusk, since I still have some of that and it's not far off the oldest of the colors...

I tented the radiator to catch most of the dust and debris during both prep and painting. The bulk of the old paint just flaked off the radiator when I ran a 7-in-one tool's blade across the surface. 

After a very short debate, we decided to go with a pewter metallic in this room because so many of the fixtures are in the pewter/nickel/silver family.

New Attic Bath - Part 6

There's been a long delay between this post and the previous one for the attic bathroom. That's because I never really finished the work. I got 95% done and got distracted with other things.

The remaining work was installing the door latch and then painting the window frame and door.

The latch came with a nice template, but the template was for a 1-1/2 inch thick door. This door is 1-3/4 so I had to cut the template apart and line up the pieces with a laser level. One piece for the edge of the door, another for the face, and the third for the jamb.

I lined up the template with the existing mortise for the old latch to minimize the amount of material I had to remove, as well as minimizing the amount of filling. There were some areas that needed to be filled because it looked like a previous owner's dog had chewed significantly into the edge of the door. I used Abatron WoodEpox and am happy with the results.

It took a little while to remove the material and dry fit the latch. Then I did all the surface prep and primed the places where there was bare wood.

Then came the Impervo as the topcoat in the usual color, Ivory Tusk, to match the rest of this part of the attic.