Smash and destroy.

DESTRUCTION!

Finally this black mould infested, welfare smelling, leaking bastard has been destroyed!

So long you bastard filled bastard with bastard coating. 

Black mould in what was the closet of the bastard.

Whoo, eat that, bitch!

I will not mourn you, bastard.

On the positive side, my office area is coming along. Once I have that desk finished I will post some better pictures. In short it is an antique cedar door that I hacked. I put lights under it to use as a drafting area and mounted it on saw horses.

And I'm getting a puppy, this is Nova.

Derp. 

Springtime in hades.

Spring is in the air. Snow melts, birds sing and the prospect of starting on the exterior is not being friendly to me. I have been very slowly working on the interior since New Years but with warm months ahead it was time for another big push to get some projects done.

The kitchen has been slowly evolving over the last few months. I brought in an apartment sized fridge and stove so I could actually feed myself and the original plan for a boring-regular-standard kitchen faucet went out the window for a badass dish faucet from Costco. Ever so slowly I am making more of the counter and trim for the kitchen but as it is now I am good for space and finishing the shelving can be done as it gets done.

Old and boring

Newest piece of counter. Much bacon will be prepped here.



I have aeoronautical cable all over the place here as you will see in the later pictures. I built this pot rack for $7 with 1/2'' electrical conduit, eye hooks, S hooks for bungee straps, a 1/2'' turn-buckle and 6' of 1/8'' cable.
Remember that random bamboo looking shelf that matched my bathroom flooring? I finally found a use for it, atop my hood fan.

Furnace box is looking better.

1/16'' checker plate to finish off the floor under my kitchen sink.


My floating shelves were a pain in the ass to make but they look good in their glorious neon green. I had to brace the island with 1/8'' cable to get rid of some wobble.
Full view of the kitchen as it stands today.

Check the awesome faucet.

Curtains... Fuck yeah!

Mal, Kaylee, Inara, Wash, Jayne, River, Book, Simon and of course Hands of Blue... My Little Damn Heroes curtains. I bought the fabric at Spoonflower.com.

Hallway

Office

This is the beginnings of my bedroom lair, lots of blue, more cable.

View from the bedroom.

For the next little bit I will be tinkering with the furnace box, finishing the lower shelves in the kitchen and other putzing in the bedroom but all in all I'm getting really close.

It's been a long time, much has been done.

It has been an awfully long time, I have been busy with both work and at home but haven't been keeping the blog current. I have been living in the Commodore full time for just over a month now but still with limited services (no working kitchen yet).

My kitchen counters have been a bit of a pain, mostly because I couldn't get into Edmonton to buy some Vika Byske tabletops that I was planning on utilizing as countertops. When I did get into the city they didn't have any anyway. I had to improvise...

The local Home Hardware had these 24''x8' pine shelving boards that caught my eye. They are only 1/2'' thick but I bought a pair (24 bucks a piece), picked up some F clams, brackets and wood glue. With the boards on some sawhorses I glued and clamped two together and hoped my plan to make my own counters would work.

At this point I still didn't really know what I was doing but winging it has pretty much been my modus operandi the whole time.

Waiting...

Cant even see the seam.

I sanded the loving hell out of it after the glue had cured. 80g with the belt sander then 120g and 220g to finish it off.

Strapping for the bottom side as the 1/2'' board just didn't have the strength that I needed.

I bought a plunge router for all of this and had way too much fun figuring out what I could router.

With five coats of varnish on it it was ready to go on my 'island'.

And by island, I mean the 6 drawer tool chest that will serve as the main support for the jutty out piece off the furnace and be the location of all my kitchen drawers.

Same process for the sink counter, I just didn't take action shots of the build.

Now we have some super fly wallboard. Brought to you by some antique cedar siding and some hardnosed bartering at a re-store.

I have a bunch of stuff on the go that haven't been getting updates on so this is all a bit random but shows some of my progress.

Shower fixtures.

For a bathroom counter I went with a Hemnes bedroom dresser from IKEA, hacked the legs off, modded the drawers for the plumbing and there you have it. Cheap as frack while looking like it kinda-sorta belongs there.

Hacked up drawer.

I picked this sink up really cheap at Home Hardware, the faucet on the other hand...

When I asked for this paint to be mixed, the lady doing it asked me a few times if I was sure because it would be ''really orange''. Looks great in the end but I cant have the flash on my camera on when taking picture in there.

Shelf and Frack mirror in my shower.

Bathroom mirror.

An attempt to curb sharpness.

I at least have some kind of living space going on. Picked up the couch and TV on the cheap during the boxing day sales. Trim is starting to go up on the ceiling and floors.

Window trim.

Another shot of my toolbox.

Light above the island/jutty thing/peninsula.

Because, why the hell not.

And my sink in its spot. Note the bed behind it, my sleeping situation has been interesting to say the least these past weeks.