Creeping Maple
Yesterday.
Today. The Other Justin should finish the kitchen today (Wednesday)! Note in the background the refinished wainscoting. So, this is how the kitchen would have looked in 1894: a pale floor with brown trim. I love it! Now, more than ever, I am excited to do a walnut butcher block counter for the island. Adjacent to the soapstone kitchen sink will be a drainboard; I will do this in maple. So, there will be a nice mix of blond and brown wood. I tingle thinking about this.
The radiator was sitting atop the 1894 flooring and I assumed Justin would cut the new wood around the radiator legs, as was done throughout the house when the 1920s oak flooring was installed. But Justin…and I have no idea of how…lifted the radiator up and slipped the new maple under the legs. Have I mentioned of late how much I love Justin?
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How exciting and beautiful! That feeling of a very long awaited project taking a step forward towards completion! We just had all new windows installed throughout our house and a beautiful custom, (that’s french for expensive) door with casement windows flanking. I have been dreaming over the day I would have functional windows and this beautiful custom door. It took 8 years to get to the point we could have them installed. It’s been 2 weeks, and I smile and feel a little burst of happy everytime I stop and admire the door and new windows. For 8 years we have had, drafty, unsafe and in many cases, unworkable windows. Projects like that just feel so great after such a long wait. Congratulations on the kitchen floor. It is dance party worthy for sure! The mixture of wood tones and soap stone is going to be stunning. What color is the island going to be? I think I remember you mentioned Navy possibly ? 🤔
Just stunning. Well done with the radiator!!
Simply gorgeous. Justin you rock!
It looks amazing!! Congratulations on nearing another milestone, one that puts you so much closer to moving in. What tickles me is seeing the random places where you have stripped small areas of paint off the wood to see what it looks like underneath…I do the same thing, it drives my wife insane! LOL… I’m like, “Honey, I didn’t have time to strip the whole door, but I just had to see the wood; I’ll finish it soon, I promise!” She has threatened to hide my Cobra, so I hid it from her first 🙂
PS: I would like to see you do a post about your Cobra stripper, showing how it works; so many people are out there scorching their wood with heat guns, or inhaling fumes from chemicals, I think that they would be thrilled to see just how great the infrared option works.
Hi Mike, there’s a video on Our Restoration Nation on YouTube on using an infrared stripper on an old newel post.
https://youtu.be/2rsajyv5rrA
Thanks, Katie 🙂 I have a Cobra, and it is one of the best tool investments I have ever made. My house is not as large as Ross’ house, and infrared is definitely the quickest and best quality route to go. A lot of people are hesitant to invest the money in one, but if you have more than a couple rooms to do, it is also the most economical option.
Wow. That floor is beautiful! And it must feel good to walk into the servants hall and look down at the floor, and not the basement. It must be spectacular now.
I have no idea how the Other Justin lifted the radiator. But my dad used car jacks to lift his when needed in the house on West Street, a trick he picked up somewhere, maybe from Travis the Radiator Guy.
Maple floor looks amazing!
Astonishing how other Justin lifted the radiator! He is an artisan with sane sensibilities as you! Others wouldn’t have noticed…but he knows and now so do you!
Progress is moving along steadily and each new revelation is just wondrous!
I am so happy for you!
It is going to be stunning! As I look at this gorgeous floor I just want to come out and put down a double layer of heavy brown paper to protect it as you continue work on the room. Maybe even triple or quadruple layers. 6 layers in front of the door. But I have known for overkill?
Amazing and beautiful. The Other Justin is obviously a genius! Superb about the radiator. So clean!
Damn. You have an Justin and an other Justin. That’s about as good as it gets! Flooring looks beautiful. I too can’t wait to see the kitchen completed.
Amazing craftsmanship! Solid wood floor even beneath the radiator! Thank you, The Other Justin for such beauty.