{"id":20560,"date":"2015-04-08T01:07:03","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T08:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=20560"},"modified":"2015-04-08T01:07:03","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T08:07:03","slug":"beadboard-scrounge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/08\/beadboard-scrounge\/","title":{"rendered":"Beadboard scrounge"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a year since I’ve scrounged anything good from the woods. Then it was the foundling end table<\/a> (which got improved and which Commentariat member Pat eventually dubbed “Doorway to the Sun”<\/a>).<\/p>\n

This afternoon I brought home a small heap of equally unprepossessing but potentially useful stuff I found in a newly dumped trash heap. To wit:<\/p>\n

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This is tongue-and-groove beadboard from somebody’s old house. Depression-era, I’m guessing. Probably wainscotting from a kitchen or bathroom judging by the bits of ancient wallpaper clinging to it. This small amount isn’t enough for anything by itself, but I’ve got this ceiling project …<\/p>\n

Last summer (you may recall all too personally, given that y’all were so involved), part of my roof collapsed<\/a>. The fix involved cutting away large chunks of a beadboard ceiling. Which was bad because it was a lovely old ceiling. But which was good because working from inside made the roof fix relatively inexpensive. And which was also good because it gave me the opportunity to convert a formerly flat ceiling to a vaulted (well, slightly vaulted) one.<\/p>\n

I just didn’t have enough interesting material to cover it. Could have drywalled it. But meh. And there was still a lot of beadboard left after the teardown, even if not enough<\/i> beadboard.<\/p>\n

Right now that ceiling is just bare rafters with insulation. Eventually<\/i> I’ll turn it into a patchwork of the old beadboard, modern tongue-and-groove 1x6s, trim, and whatever the heck else might fit up there. The beadboard I picked up this afternoon is a different design than what I’ve already got and will enhance the patchwork effect. Remarkably, the tongues and grooves of all the different materials I’ve assembled fit together, too. Well, mostly. They will<\/i> fit whether they want to or not. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

There’s probably more beadboard in the heap of construction rubble. I’ll go back and look later.<\/p>\n

It infuriates that people dump construction leftovers in the woods. Aside from the blight on the landscape, the heaps are always full of rusty nails, sharp metal edges, and broken glass. I wonder if the creeps who use the forest as their personal landfill ever give a second’s thought to the excruciating death some animal might suffer, getting an infected wound from all those spiky protrusions.<\/p>\n

The rubble heap this beadboard came from could have been left at the real landfill for about $7.50. But noooooo. Some cretin couldn’t be bothered.<\/p>\n

If I ran the world, people who dumped dangerous junk in the woods would have to pick it up with their teeth. Serve ’em right. Still, for scroungers, there’s occasional gold in the rubble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been a year since I’ve scrounged anything good from the woods. Then it was the foundling end table (which got improved and which Commentariat member Pat eventually dubbed “Doorway to the Sun”). This afternoon I brought home a small heap of equally unprepossessing but potentially useful stuff I found in a newly dumped trash heap. To wit: This is tongue-and-groove beadboard from somebody’s old house. Depression-era, I’m guessing. Probably wainscotting from a kitchen or bathroom judging by the bits of ancient wallpaper clinging to it. This small amount isn’t enough for anything by itself, but I’ve got this ceiling…<\/p>\n

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