Oh, the joys of building a house in Bamfield!: February 2009

February has been one of those months where the weather is just plain weird! It's my favourite month in that we get at least 14 days of sunshine, but mixed in with all that is rain, snow & general winter weather.

An easy project that we finished was to install some rope along the top edge of the wall where it meets the ceiling. An awkward angle to try to figure out for wood trim & it took Phil less than an hour to get it installed with his nailer.

There are 2 continuous pieces that run from the front of the living/dining rooms up the loft half walls....

....and through the loft to the back wall.

Am wondering how this rope will age - we didn't treat it with anything....

The next big project Phil just completed was to cut & install the window trim for the upstairs. We have 2 HUGE windows along the front & the one beside the dining table. (this is a close up of the dining room window & rope trim)

After Phil finished, I followed behind with some wood filler to hide the nail holes & applied a couple of coats of tung oil.
(I am just about to apply the tung oil to the trim around the sliding glass doors).

One tricky detail was how to deal with my cast iron plant hooks. Remove them from the wall & re-attach with a piece of wood behind or cut the top trim piece to go around the hook.... Phil cut around the hook... Hope it wasn't too much of a pain...

Will have to take photos of our window treatments when they arrive in the next couple of weeks. While we love the winter sunshine, because the sun is lower in the sky at this time of year, it can be brilliantly blinding - making sitting at the table almost unbearable. Then the temperature in the house starts to soar - ha, ha, ha - you say. But at 10 a.m. it can reach upwards of 20 degrees. And this is February. I have to open the sliding glass doors & we retreat to the back office if we want to work on our computers. What a waste of the view!! So we are getting some mesh roller blinds for the 2 big windows & some sheer curtains for the sliding glass doors. I'm not worried about the upper 2 levels of windows - at least for now. This should help also with the summer heat (not that we are inside during the summer) but also protect the paint & furniture from sun damage. Who'd ever thought we'd be complaining about sunshine here on the 'wet' coast!!