You'll have to use your imagination on this project guys. It took a little more than two months. It took so long because my carpenter is fully employed, working up to 60 hours per week. So we squeaked my job in when he had time. It is 99.9percent done, and the new vertical blinds come tomorrow, so I wanted to expose as much of the good looking wood as possible before they went up. The total cost is around $7,800, but that includes all materials and labor to install. As I am seriously medically afflicted, my duties were limited to only staining and polyurethaneing. I spent 30 days doing that, and I was off every day due to medical leave.

The condo is 1,100 square feet, and a first class job was done. Every closet or doorway you can walk into is trimmed and door cased on both sides. I had 12 new doors put in, and hundreds of feet of base and door casing. The doors are made by Jen-Weld, and I am quite happy with them. Everything acquired on the project was acquired from Home Depot.

I had lots of help on this project: even Jesal and his friend Steve came over and helped me move a very heavy oak bedroom set and ripped out some trim. Meanwhile, My friend Steve was the carpenter-and he is no sloutch. He is a Master Field Installer for Pella windows, and he knows his stuff. Every angle (and I have plenty of them, and every mitered corner joint is absolutely perfect. You will see. Sorry, two pictures are fuzzy. But you'll get the idea.

BACKGROUND:

I moved here one day before Thanksgiving, 1997 from an EXTREMELY SMALL condominium with a "floor footprint of 785 sq. ft." Now, subtract all of the kitchen cabinets, the refrig, the bathtub, bathroom vanity and toilet, and now you know what I mean by small. Shit, the closets were considered living space.

Part of the deal was I got to put down new floor coverings everywhere, and the place would be entirely repainted, not to a color of my own choosing. Contractor white only, and that included the 3" floor base, which surrounded a few doors also. To add insult to injury, EVERY DOOR IN THE PLACE WAS INJECTION MOLDED PLASTIC IN HERSHEY BAR BROWN. I couldn't stand it!

After spending six months convalesing from surgery and irradiation for cancer, I was stir crazy, so I launched the project.

PICTURES:

1. A view of the front entry. The white door is the entry door, and it is a fire door. I didn't want to fool with the code and association hassels, so I left it be.

2. Enterance to the bathroom (left) and the bedroom.

3. The bedroom, single French door.

4. Inside the bathroom, viewing out.

5. Inside the bedroom, viewing out.

6.Bedroom glass slider, #1.

7. The living room, incluiding slider #2.

8. Double French doors, leading to my den (the computer room.)

9. Slider #3, in the den.

10. The den closet. Huge. Goes from wall to wall and is about 5' deep.

11. Typical miter workmanship. Steve from Pella will settle for no less than perfect.

12. Kitchen "island".

Enjoy!

ADDITIONAL:

Forgot to say: the place is now painted a very nice, light peach, and I ripped out (or had ripped out) all of the old, standard 3", white painted pine base trim. 4.5" red oak was used in it's place, and 3.5" x.5" thick door casing was used. Will post more pics after the vertical blinds are up.