Okay okay. So, these little shelves I thought were going to be so ingenious, so life saving, so helpful.....yeah. They turned into a pain in the ass. It was where they interfaced with the wall. There were gaps all around.
At first, I thought "Yeah, I'll just trim them off and they'll go with the windows." Well, the bottom portion to the bottom shelf was about 1/4" above the trim. Wasn't gonna work. So, I left that off. But, I had my impending first party coming up and had to do something. So, trim it was!
I put the trim up and made it look decent. Every single time I looked at it though something was just off. Something just wasn't right.
See how proud I was of my crappy design that the only picture I have was when I was taking a picture of my bike. My bike with a flat tire! So, I had put this trim around but it just didn't seem too period correct for what I was trying to achieve. Well, after all my experiments with drywall, I decided it would be fun to do a fine tune nightmare of outside corners! FUN!
So, I ripped off the molding about five months later and proceeded to start a one month project of nitpicking and near perfection. I say near perfection because I'm still not entirely happy with it. That said, I did a pretty good job as leveling outside corners is one of the trickiest things ever. Especially when you don't have texture and can't use metal edges. Still, I'm gonna have to do some geneaology studies because there has to be some Mexican in me somewhere.
Of course my first time drywalling the living room, I didn't do a great job creating even walls on the original corners so I had to fill in a ton and even the walls out. That's what took so long. Sometimes I rue my work ethic with perfectionism because it always comes out half assed anyway. But, this is the end result at this point. I'll go back and make it better.
So, when I moved all this stuff around, it shifted the doorbell. That will be the next post.....
