Dressing up the Walls

We moved into our house the beginning of August. Most of the interior work was complete by then, but we still had some trim work and one wall we wanted to line with barn wood like we'd used on our bathroom door. Six months later, we still have that trim work and wall to work on...but we have gotten started.

We've scavenged wood from up our mountain and down. A neighbor down the road offered us boards from a barn being pulled down. Up the road, neighbors offered us more boards from a collapsed outbuilding. After cutting out broken sections, we cleaned and sanded the boards, then sorted them by size. We're squaring the ends, ripping clean edges and cutting boards to fit the wall. With any luck, our next blog update will have a picture of the finished wall.

As for the trim, it's coming from shipping pallets. After doing some of the initial trim work inside the house, we had to collect a few more pallets. Now we need to saw them apart to sort, sand and stain boards to sheath our two posts and finish off the ends of the bathroom and bedroom walls.

Please click on the photos below for more details. Find more on our wall work here: http://simplyenough.weebly.com/building/we-have-walls-most-of-them-anyway​.

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