John Highstreet's Carpentry

Howdy!

 I had a multitude of before and during pictures stored on my laptop, which died - much to my dismay, so here are a few pictures after the fact. The attic space I refurbished was to be turned into a bedroom and thusly needed an oversized custom door which was fun to make. Keep in mind that the project aesthetic was to be rustic in nature.

  I left the baseboard in this room and scribed to it and thank goodness for my multi-master cutting tool which made quick work removing the bottom pieces of door trim. After the first coat of poly I caulked the perimeter edge with a very fine bead - no cracks, no shadows and it looks like its always been there.

  I did remove light fixtures, plaster a bunch of holes where old lights were, skim-coated here and there, and then primed/painted everything. well, not everything - the owner did some painting as well.

  Speaking of owners... I don't know how I did it, but I managed to have yet another fantastic owner to work with- really makes all the difference.

  This room had wall to wall carpet with a fine layer of sand under it. I'm pretty sure it was older than me.

  I used 1x8 shiplap pine for flooring - screwing in the tongue and face nailing with square cut nails. The border here is routed with a simple round-over bit with a half inch reveal.

 Wood is beautiful. Isn't it?

  This room had a plywood subfloor and was quickly transformed. I did remove the baseboard to scribe after the flooring went down as there was a "slight" dip in the floor.

The skylight wall had water damaged sheetrock, so I replaced that and the trim. 

Rustic flooring - all surfaces were finished using a belt sander with 40 grit belts. I actually thought it might turn out more rustic than it did...