Live Stoners Live Stoner Chat - Oct-Dec '21

[Green Hornet]

 

[Green Hornet]

So, fell down a bit of a rabbit hole last night, which is why I poofed around 4pm my time lol. Started with going up to the attic thinking about how I could use that space as a grow room. Come back down and get to googling, my manufactured trusses mean thats a no go. Hmph. Then I was reading about putting a floor into an attic and considering what a shit show the construction of this house is, I'm assuming that's a no go as well. Ah well. Then I start knocking on walls, thinking about possibly taking the wall between my current grow closet and the linen closet down and walling off the linen closet door. Then I realized that would only be adding length, not depth, so again not really worth the effort. Somehow this got me watching videos of remodeling staircases so by the time hubby was heading home from work 6ish hours later I had taken the carpet, pad, and 5 billion staples off the first stair, sanded it down, and stained it the same Java color I'm planning on doing the architectural arch over the exterior of our front door. The dogs think its a black hole and refuse to step on it, and #1 told me this morning it was "more dangerous" if they fell. I told him that yes, it may *hurt* more if they fell, but that walking down the carpeted stairs in socks you actually have *less* traction (especially if that carpet is covered in dog hair, which is one of reasons I wanted to rip it out anyways since trying to balance myself and a vacuum on the stairs is a pain and a hazard of its own lol), which of course he had to test for himself. Once again I've come to find that yet another part of this house is held together with Liquid Nails, random handfuls of hardware, and rage. The Newel Post has more holes in it than Swiss cheese, since apparently cutting a hole for it in the bottom stair and screwing/nailing it from a bunch of random directions is so much easier than using a dowel screw or L brackets and moulding? And don't get me started on the amount of liquid nails holding the stupid carpet down. Good news is they did stair by stair instead of waterfall so I was able to get away with just messing with the one for now. Plan in my brain will be to replace the baluster spindles with wrought iron in a rubbed brass with shoes at their bases, repair/refinish/properly mount the Newel post (though I've yet to decide if I want to do so on the floor or the first stair, its on the floor currently but it could go either way and the stair may be easier), refinish and remount the hand rails (with new hardware to match), and I'll probably need to replace the bottom stair's riser and tread. I'll probably end up taking all of the treads off, or at least remove all the original fasteners, and replace them with new since the stairs currently creak and squeak something awful.

The door isn't finished yet but its just a matter of hubby installing the closer now and then slipping the glass panel in so that shouldn't take too long at all.

When I remodel I have to go one step at a time. If not I get overwhelmed

 

[Suki]

Oh! I remember how I got to the stairs lol. I was looking at my dining room and thinking that I could take the railing off the 1.5 sides where there is railing instead of wall (on half the hall adjacent side and across the full side adjacent to the sunken living room), but I would need to find another visual break for those areas, be it a pony wall on each side or walling it in completely. I'd like to fully wall it in and use that as a grow room as its a currently unused space, but that would kind of do away with the whole "open floorplan" vibe downstairs, which would block out a ton of light since it's a townhouse and only has windows on the front and back. It would also mean I'd have to wall in the bar between the kitchen and living room as well. I'll probably end up doing a full redesign of the kitchen eventually, and install an island and such, and then we can actually use the dining room as a dining area. That won't be till after I rip the carpet in there out though and install hard floors, cause kids and carpeted eating areas don't mix lol.

 

[Weedkiller]

Putting frosted Skywalker in jars today. I'm out of jars. Mosca got it right. I had some issues but still looking like 7 jars from 2 plants in 11 weeks. Tried some and its awesome.

 

[Suki]

But when I was looking for inspiration on what to do instead of railings I ended up getting sidetracked to stairways lol.

 

[Suki]

When I remodel I have to go one step at a time. If not I get overwhelmed

Lol I still need to finish replacing all the outlets and switches, started that when I was painting before we moved in 6+ months ago. The mapping on the box is all wrong though, so I have to turn off power to the whole house in order to do it, which is a pain with #2 doing school from home, since he needs internet and what not.

 

[Suki]

The railings downstairs need to go though, I'm tired of the dogs jumping through them while we're sitting on the couch (which backs up to the long side of the dining room), and also hubby crashed through that one when dragging the old carpet out back in the beginning after tripping over the dog, so it's just balanced on one side (since the people who built this place clearly were high on coke or something and nothing is put together properly) and there's several spindles missing. I feel like pony walls are dated, but at the same time so are colonial style white and oak railings. May go with the pony walls and drywall it on the living room and hallway sides, and then build out built-ins in the dining room area. We will see.

 

[Dr Fluff]

@St. Tom
Who doesn't like to see group of adorable dogs?:smoking:
One day I will have me a four legged friend, when the time is right!
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[Green Hornet]

The railings downstairs need to go though, I'm tired of the dogs jumping through them while we're sitting on the couch (which backs up to the long side of the dining room), and also hubby crashed through that one when dragging the old carpet out back in the beginning after tripping over the dog, so it's just balanced on one side (since the people who built this place clearly were high on coke or something and nothing is put together properly) and there's several spindles missing. I feel like pony walls are dated, but at the same time so are colonial style white and oak railings. May go with the pony walls and drywall it on the living room and hallway sides, and then build out built-ins in the dining room area. We will see.

Sounds like a good place to start. Safety issues need to be # 1

 

[Suki]

@St. Tom
Who doesn't like to see group of adorable dogs?:smoking:
One day I will have me a four legged friend, when the time is right!
Thanks for the thanks and you are very welcome!
To quote @Mossy "rep is earned" so my rep was nothing more than you deserved, you earned it!

Did someone say adorable?