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<\/a><\/p>\nNeither my skills nor my tools were really up to this task, but the big sanity-killer was the general kerflotchiness of the structure itself. My design relies on the various pieces coming together to form neat chevrons. Unfortunately, the ceiling beams themselves don’t come together in perfect chevrons (something not readily apparent until I was in the nitty-gritty of measuring and cutting). So there’s a great deal of “make-do and fake it” where the key bits come together. The underlying structure may be off only by half an inch or so, but that makes a huge<\/i> difference when you’ve got as many as 12 pieces converging in one spot, and the problems grow the closer you get to being done.<\/p>\n
I am envisioning strategically place architctural rosettes in my future to hide some of the worst structural and aesthetic sins.<\/p>\n
Meantime, let’s see how many of those sins can be successfully disguised by caulk and paint.<\/p>\n
And how much father I get before I’m hauled off ranting about the dark evil lurking in the rafters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yes, it’s conclusive now. I was insane to begin this project at all and plugging at it for most of two weeks has not improved my mental health. Quite the contrary. You may soon read news reports of some poor, pathetic nameless woman picked up by police after running down the street, covered in sawdust and sheetrock mud, babbling wildly about cursed beadboard and claiming to be possessed by demonically acute angles. But though it may have cost the final threads of my sanity, it’s getting close to done now. A couple more trim pieces. Lots of caulk, two coats…<\/p>\n