A busy, frustrating, exhilarating, exhausting weekend

On Saturday, I attempted to finish the quarter-round moulding on the bamboo flooring we installed a few weekends back.  M's task was to refinish the unfinished mantle piece that had been on our fireplace since we moved in.  We decided to stain it a cherry stain like the cabinetry upstairs, and give it a polyurethane coating.  We had a brainstorm about the credenza piece that we had in our entry way, a display case with sliding glass doors.  It's a piece that my mom bought for me at an estate sale about 23 years ago, there used to be 2 of them, and Mom gave me one and my brother the other one.  Mine survived, but my brothers' kids broke the glass in his, and then it was destoyed in a freak flood that happened in their townhouse.  We were looking for a replacement for it and couldn't find anything we liked, so we decided to try to update this piece.  Do you remember this?

M spent a lot of the day sanding it, and we have a plan to make it integrate with our new foyer.  Stay tuned.

Here's the scary rickety legs we removed from the piece.

Here's the Mantle piece that M stained...looks good doesn't it!  We polyurethaned it on Sunday, and can put it back up tomorrow.

Anyway.  My job was to finish the moulding.  I made my first trip to Home Depot at 10am, and I bought an electric nail gun, and some brads for it.  Long painful story shorter, the nail gun didn't work.  I threw a total of about 8.5 hissy fits and a truly awesome tantrum that M was concerned would summon the police.  The carbonized bamboo quarter-round was so hard that nails would not penetrate it.  So I tried to pre-drill holes in it with a 1/16" drill bit, and the eff-ing bit eff-ing broke!  (Queue tantrum, minus sirens) M was calm (only one of us is allowed to phreek-out at any time), he called Lumber Liquidators, and explained the predicament, they said someone would call us back shortly....and they actually DID!  The young man said that the last few batches of this product had been extremely hard, and they were using an epoxy to apply the quarter round.  I thanked him....Hung up...then Cursed them for not letting us know that when we bought the hateful stuff!

My second trip to Home Depot was at about 2pm.  I returned the nail gun, and bought epoxy and liquid Nails.  I must have looked scary.  No one would approach to help or see how I was doing. 

The liquid nails did the trick.  I first miter cut all the pieces to fit, then enlisted M to help me glue everything in place.  Here's the pics from  Sunday morning.  It work pretty well actually.

Here's next to the fireplace, this was one of 3 places in the room where it sort of gapped away from the brick.  I'll try using a sturdier drill bit and hold it in place with a wood screw.

Here's the other corner of the room.  On Sunday, I hid those speaker wires, so they're not on the floor anymore.

So here's the exhilarating bit....Our furniture arrived!!!  The guys delivered it from BiF at about 6pm on Saturday.  I'd honestly forgotten what it looked like since we ordered it in MAY!  But, the delivery made our room look like the Furniture Barn: 

COME ON DOWN Y'ALL, WE GOT VALUE, VALUE, VALUE.  THIS SUNDAY ONLY WE GOT HALF SMOKES ON THE BARBEQUE AND SAVINGS FOR U!  BRING GRAMMA, BRING THE KIDS...HECK BRING THE DAWG, TOO!! CAUSE, FOLKS, YOU DON'T WANNA MISS THESE SAVINGS!

See what I mean?

Here's some detail...2 love seats in a tan leather..it's hard to tell in the picture, but the arms have a slight curve to them.

And 2 arm chairs, of the same style in a ruby leather.  Its not this red, when you see it in person. 

After some manuvering (big ass captains chair upstairs, ugh, disassembling the table we cannot sell), here's what we have.

'Scuse the mess on the coffee table, we're still working an maintaining order.  Here's the other side.  The dark brown/black chair in the corner, will have to find a new home. It's not staying there, but its where it is now.

Now, the other 2 chairs went to the den.  We'd originally thought they'd be upstairs in the new space, but they work better in the media room.  You can see the sekhsi curve on the chairs here.

When we get the couch cushions re-covered in something else (Mom...be thinking of options), it will all work together much better.  Doesn't that "Ruby Red" on the walls work well with the new chairs?

So thats' what we did this weekend. 

THOUGHTS?

S'all for now.

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