This week was really busy since I had jury duty all week, so I only had one day to dedicate to the guest room. Devin and I decided to divide and conquer to get more done. I spent the day patching drywall, sanding and painting the door, and doing another Roman Clay wall. Devin spent the day building a false wall to reinforce the closet opening and moving some electrical boxes.
I started with the drywall patching. This hole was created when I removed the plastic doorknob wall protector. I’ll put a hinge pin door stop on the door hinge instead of having this ugly thing on the wall. To start, I sealed the exposed drywall paper and then spackled the hole with Sheetrock90 and mesh tape. I’ll do another coat of joint compound after sanding.
This is what the patch looked like after. Not perfect, but another coat of drywall mud, primer and paint and it will completely disappear.
The other drywall repair I needed to do was from last week when I moved the internet cables over about 12″ so they would be hidden inside the cabinet I’m going to build. I did the patch the same way, filling the hole with quickset and putting mesh tape on top of it and more mud.
And here is what it looked like after. Again, I’ll give it a sand and do another coat with drywall mud and it will be good as new!
Next I removed the doorknob and took the door off the hinges. Sanded it down a bit and then primed it.
I’m going to try the same green paint I used for the cabinet in the bathroom from my previous ORC project and see if it matches the Roman Clay. My plan was to use this same green on the built ins if it matches enough.
Between coats of paint on the door, I started the Roman Clay on the window wall. I couldn’t do the entire thing because the drywall patch wasn’t completely dry so I couldn’t finish that part.
Once again, the first coat looks really bad, but now I know the second coat is where the magic happens!
I put the door back on the hinges and replaced the doorknob to get an idea of what the color would look like against the wall. What do you think? Do we have a match?
A view of the finished wall with the freshly painted door, and the window wall with one coat of Roman Clay.
Here’s a close up of the door and the wall. The colors are never going to look identical because I’m using semi-gloss paint on the door and the Roman Clay has a matte finish. I think it works though! The other option is to paint the door a different color, probably black, but I don’t think there’s going to be anything black or white in this room so I don’t think that’s the best option.
Here was Devin’s task for the day. He built this false wall with 2×4’s to support the ceiling while taking out the studs we wanted to remove.
The studs are out and the new header is in! The header is made of two 4×8’s sandwiching a piece of 1/2″ plywood so it was the perfect thickness.
This is the header before the putting in the jack studs. You can see the three pieces of wood from the profile.
Jack studs are in! There are two jack studs on the left and a king stud that goes all the way up. These are supporting the header. There is another jack stud on the right.
That’s it for this week! Hopefully next week I’ll have more time to work on the room. Be sure to check out everyone else’s progress on the One Room Challenge Blog HERE.
Until next week!
-Selene Builds Things
