Condo/Home Renovation Ideas Made Easy/Part 54

Well what is my project today? I'm down here getting ready to paint. I've already caulked. I used my caulking and I caulked around this window. I had it all nicely scraped out and cleaned from before and I've got that all caulked now ready to be painted. You know, cut in and stuff and I also caulked in this window here. Nice thin little bead up there along the edge and along the top and the inside corners. If the inside wall corners had slight little crack or indentations, I went ahead and caulked those to make them look all nice and straight. And then, man, I had to caulk all kinds of stuff inside this little goodie. They didn't even, when they sheetrocked, they didn't even get back in here for some reason and they didn't finish the the wall. But this is going to be kind of like a kind of like a little pantry area for the for the kitchen. So we're going to have some food items in there and stuff and I didn't want ants getting in there from, you know, coming in from underneath the house or something and then coming in through the cracks. And so I caulked all the sides all the way up to the ceiling on both sides and I've been doing all kinds of stuff caulking and and stuff and where the pedestal sink is going, where the wall outlet is, there's a big crack all the way around that, you know, big hole. It's like doesn't anybody take pride in the work anymore? 15 years ago they just left it. You know the sheetrockers probably thought, oh we're not going to tape that, we're just going to leave that and we'll let the painters fix it. And then the painters came and they thought, well we're not going to do it because the trim cap on the drain line is going to fit over that and so we're not going to caulk it. So they didn't. But now I caulked it and I'm all ready now to do some painting and see see here's my here's my craft paper over the floor and I just cut it and notched it and kind of fit it up in there because all I'm doing is the walls right now. I'm not concerning myself, you know, all this wall cavity and the shelf and the bottom of each shelf, the top, the side trim up in here and stuff. So I'm just using a crummy old paint roller and it's just a six inch and this thing used to be a three quarter inch nap roller and it's about had its days hasn't it? But I'm using that because that's all I need for in there. It'll be fine and then after everything dries I'm just going to use my cut in throw away paintbrush. That's it. It's all I'm going to use to do all the all the inside corners up underneath here, up underneath here, the shelf, the sides, you know, the whole the whole kit and caboodle and that's it. And my little throw away pans, my plastic insert, I got a plastic insert in here see and I just pour some paint in there. You don't have to be a professional painter to do this, come on. You can start doing your own things and this is an eggshell finish and it's the same stuff that I got on the walls and then I'm going to do my trick. I'm going to after I do the eggshell one coat on top of these shelves, you know, then after everything's dry after I cut in everything I'm going to go ahead and paint the top of this and this and this edge with semi-gloss just to give it some more durability and stuff so that we can wipe those shelves off if we spill anything on it, get syrup on there, who knows something something breaks inside there we can wipe it all down and that's it. And so I'm just using my craft paper. This was a piece of craft paper I had down where the washer and dryer was and I was careful to pull it up and I just folded the masking tape back around the edges and that's that actually strengthened this little piece up and I can use that for all kinds of all kinds of things and slide it around here on the floor and stuff and that's it if I get if I get a drip of paint on this vinyl flooring I can just wipe it up with with my sponge of course I've got my container of water here my sponge here all on the ready and you know when I get when I get ready to do this area here yes I'm going to have to put some craft paper on the floor you know a few sheets and stuff. I don't want to drip and start dripping everywhere and it doesn't really take very long and the craft paper if you haven't been with me it comes in oh I don't know 200 foot rolls 250 foot rolls I forget how long how long it is it's this resin paper right here see look look at that that's only 13 dollars for a whole roll of that and I I'm going to use this later this is heavy duty like cardboard type material and that's that's only 100 foot long and that was like 30 33 dollars for that but I'm not going to use that for paint drops I'm just going to use my craft paper it works fine and that other stuff I'm going to lay out through here eventually in a few months I'm going to take this countertop out of here and this is a tile countertop from 15 years ago that's how they did their countertops they got a piece of plywood here over the top of the cabinet see here right here all the way across there and then they got a layer of concrete they probably cut chicken wire in there somewhere I think I might well it's probably in there somewhere and then they put thinset on there and then they put the tile so I'm going to have to I'm going to have to rip that up and when I do then I'm going to put that cardboard stuff down here down on this floor and protect the floor because when this stuff when this stuff shatters it's almost like glass shards I don't want to get that on the floor obviously I don't want to just use craft paper because if I get this stuff on the floor if I walk on it and slip and slide on it I could put a big scratch in the nice new floor I don't want that so I'm going to use that other heavy duty cardboard type material and I'm going to I'm going to run it along here and through here and across in there and then I'll have to put a plastic barricade up you know all the way around here yeah too bad we didn't get a chance to do it earlier but hey the countertop was going to take five weeks to order and we we're going to be moving in here in a couple weeks and initially we were thinking about redoing the entire kitchen area take all the cabinets out and stuff and and that was going to be a couple months and and you know as it is hey the new flooring is down the carpet's going in in a couple days and we're going to be moved in here with no stove I'm going to leave the stove out because we're getting new appliances and no sense putting in new appliances until I rip out the the countertops and stuff right so I took the dishwasher out I'm going to we're going to leave the dishwasher out we don't need that I can wash dishes in the sink no problem I do that all the time anyways it's just the two of us and it's easy to let them dry and put away so that I very seldom use the dishwasher anyway so that's that's no sweat off my bones and and the stove hey we'll just have to cook with the microwave we're leaving that up there that's going to be that's going to be uh replaced uh but we're going to leave it up there so that we can use it for now same thing with the with the refrigerator we're getting a new refrigerator but we're going to keep this one for right now and that's it that's all we need for for uh it's it's probably going to be oh I don't know um two months from now I'm guessing by the before uh the new countertop comes in and so I'm going to have to rip this out maybe in a month and a half from now we'll see I've got to order a new sink because it's going to be an under counter sink and and all that kind of stuff but that that's what that cardboard stuff that's what I'm going to use that cardboard stuff for but but for but for painting and stuff if you got hardwood floors man craft paper is the way to go and uh you know if if I was doing that over carpet with pad then I was then I was going to sweat it because I thought we were going to keep the old carpet and stuff and I was going to end up having to paint everything up there over the carpet that was going to be a nightmare and a half and I would use craft paper like this and ran it up against the wall and it would have been very difficult I put some shelf uh slats over the top of the craft paper to give it more stability and run the pieces wider and then slide my my paint tray along or my five gallon bucket along I could have done it but it would have been tricky let me tell you okay so hey that's that's all I'm doing I'm just concentrating on one area I got I got the rest of today and uh two more days before the carpet guys come back and the carpet guys are going to go upstairs I I only have a couple little things up there to do what what was it I missed I missed something crack me up the other day I was I was I was looking around and uh I thought how the heck did I miss that um this little this little closet area look I missed cutting in the wall along here from the from the top of the door frame on down next to the light switch and then all the way down just just to that I got everything else in the room I got everything else in the in the uh guest room in this closet except that one edge I don't know how that happened but um you know I'll I'll I'll uh get that when I have my cut in brush out when I'm doing some cut in stuff downstairs and see I did this I did this the other day using that that same little paint tray that same little uh throw away paint brush to do the cut in and that same little uh mini roller and it turned out this this little area turned out really nice okay the only thing I still have to do is the semi-gloss paint um on top of the shelf and on these edges and uh I just I just want to do that just because I have the paint and stuff and of course I want to do that before the carpet gets in and and then I may do some I may do a little bit of touch up I noticed there was one little spot I've got to get my my flat ceiling paint out or actually not my flat ceiling paint my white semi-gloss paint see there I tagged this the ceiling right there with my with my paint I'm not sure exactly how I did that but I did and um I'm gonna have to get my white semi-gloss paint out because I ended up painting this closet ceiling semi-gloss I always like to do that in in closets because then when you have the light on it kind of reflects and gives you a little bit extra light uh in your closet area in case you're trying to find something in particular in between your your your clothes and your hangers and all that kind of stuff eggshell finish on the walls okay and so I've got to I've got to do that over this door this little trap door that goes up into the uh the attic walking type of attic area up there and I've got some storage up there too I need to paint this this door and uh I'll I'll probably I'm not even gonna mess with that today I'll I'll probably do that tomorrow and so you know there's there's a couple other little knickknack things up here that uh I'll probably end up doing not very much but I want to get that stuff all taken care of tomorrow and then uh I'll be concentrating doing everything downstairs all the cut in and stuff remember this transition from the uh the wall coming down from the from the here let's let's show you this again down the stairs see there and across there I've got a transition somewhere and there's a bullnose corner here so you've got to make a decision where where to do that and there's this one here see this one's this one's like a 45 degree this is a 90 degree and I've already made the determination I'm gonna I'm gonna go three quarters up from the from the bottom up and that's where the that's where the gray is gonna stop and then I'm gonna continue that line so then the gray is actually gonna gonna finish about there this little bit's gonna stay white this little bit's gonna stay white and I decided that because when I'm down here initially I was thinking maybe taking the gray usually you split you split the bullnose trim but I don't want to do that because if you're standing out here or right right about here you you'll see that gray wrapped around the ceiling I don't want to see that when I'm when I'm standing out here all I want to see is that nice white crisp ceiling going up the stairs okay so I got to do I got to do that too I've got some masking tape and I'll measure that and run some masking tape and I'll I'll put the gray there and then I know I'll have to cut that in again and I might have to get the white out too because when you're going over spray texture knockdown there you're only going to get so straight of a line when you pull the masking tape up and you'll see little nodules that you that you're going to have to be really careful and cut in with a paint brush you'll see if you ever do that so so you know I'm just I'm just kind of taking my time today I'm just doing one little thing at a time and my next little project is this for those shelves and then eventually probably tomorrow I'll put craft paper down in here and then I've got to get I've got a another six inch mini roller that I use for the ceilings with a different nap roller cover it's a three-quarter inch and it's worn down a little bit but not too bad it's still got half inch nap on there probably or a little bit more and then I'll I'll do the the top of that soffit and then the top edge of the soffit ceiling and that section going up to the to this main ceiling and then the front of the soffit and the underneath side of the soffit yeah and and then the tricky part is going to be cutting in the paint on the ceiling to the scribe mold of the cabinetry that's going to be tricky and I may have to end up doing that twice I'm not quite sure yet I've already cut it in a couple times you know because I had to put some primer on there and then I had to put some flat paint so I've got two coats up there already and I cut it in pretty good but it takes your breath away and you've got to twist and and getting all kinds of contorted angles and stuff to make sure to get it up there just right and not hit the the cabinets and the scribe mold and the top of the doors and all that kind of stuff but hey if I do if I do I just take my sponge and wipe it off and get that taken care of and and you know so for the next few days I'm going to be working down here I've got to cut in the ceiling you know the wall see how the wall is up to the ceiling I've got to cut that in all the all the way along and then I've got to paint those corbels I'm painting those corbels the same color as the wall and then I've got to paint the wall down to the top of the base and actually I still I keep forgetting I've got to paint the baseboard too yeah in in here I also and I've already got it cleaned and sanded and wiped down same thing with the door frames I still have to paint those I've already got these cleaned then wiped down then sanded then wiped down caulked and I had to look at all of them and make sure all of them were nicely caulked and everything and then now they're ready to be painted so I've got to paint paint the door frames and all that this door I've not even painted yet and I've got to paint the door frame on this this goes out into the garage and at the time when I painted all these other doors I thought should I take should I take this door off and paint that too and I really didn't want to do that because there's a solid core door plus plus it was it's keeping all the cold air from the garage coming into the house and once you paint a door you want to let it you want to let it set and cure for a couple days before you put it back up and plus it's it's going to have different hardware on it and it's going to have different hinges on it and so I've got to I've got to get the hinges and stuff so this is going to be this this door here is going to be one project in itself and probably the same time I do that this door here I'm not going to paint this door it's a metal clad door and this is this is some different type of paint it's a uh because it's over metal you don't want to take just semi-gloss uh latex enamel and put over there because it would peel right off even if you sanded this you'd have to you've got to do it a special with special uh metal type uh well some paint that will uh go over metal okay but so I'm not going to do that but I am going to paint the door frame on the front of this and and see this just goes outside I'm not going to paint the outside but I am going to take the uh this this trim off and see how see how it's got the red on there because whoever painted this door once upon a time they painted with the door in the closed position and they didn't want to open the door look they just cut it in as best they could and now you've got this nasty line all the way around your door you don't want to do that and then you get a little bit of the red on your weather stripping you see there you don't want to do that you know that's that's silly and so I'm gonna I'm gonna end up taking this out I'm gonna get some new stuff and then when I get ready to paint this then I'll paint this door trim and the door jam just up to here this edge okay and I'm not going to touch anything from here out okay that's on the exterior exterior so the day the day that I do that I'm not I'm not sure what if I'm going to take the door off the hinges and just prop the door over here and then paint the door jam I don't know because it's kind of cold we're in the winter and stuff but it's very it's difficult to get this painted without getting anything on the door especially trying to get the paint into this groove and it's very tedious and time consuming to do that without getting it on the doors way easier just to take the door off take the hinges off set it over here and so I don't I don't even know uh I'm thinking I might I might just not do anything with this door until the summer and then I can take the door out be nice and hot outside then I can paint the door jam and the door the door trim and let it let it dry all all day long and then I can gently carefully plop the door back on here okay I should be able to do that no problem so uh I think that's what I'm gonna do on that one and then and then this one here I'm just gonna cut around it for right now I'm not even gonna mess with this actually I will cut in this trim around the edge and then just let the paint kind of taper and and just brush it off so at least I get this edge uh painted you know before I cut it in that way uh when I paint this later I'll just paint it from this edge over and this will already be cut in you see what I'm saying okay so a few things a few things I've got to do here's a here's a little uh trap door thing there's a fire sprinkler system in the in each individual condo and I sanded this and this thing was rubbing down at the end they always seem to rub so they're just installed uh with a couple screws on both sides I took some screws out and lifted lifted uh this side and it lifted the edge of the bottom and now this thing fits nice didn't take me that long to do that and I nicely sanded that off then I'm going to paint this with the eggshell uh finish uh on the wall from the wall and it will kind of blend in and we'll probably get a we'll probably get some sort of picture I'd like to get a picture or something and hang it right there to cover that up you know what I mean there's a there's an idea for you then then you don't have to see that okay but uh I better get going it's getting it's getting late in the afternoon and I gotta get this little thing done hey if I can do it of course you can too well that's all I have for this time but I'll be back with more videos