{"id":14200,"date":"2020-02-27T22:42:18","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T06:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=14200"},"modified":"2020-02-27T22:50:50","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T06:50:50","slug":"victorianna-attaching-the-flat-roof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=14200","title":{"rendered":"Victorianna — attaching the flat roof"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before I could glue in the Victorianna’s flat roof, I had to finish a few things in the master bedroom and bathroom that would be too hard to reach once the roof was on, starting with the bedroom closet.<\/p>\n

As a reminder, here’s how the closet looks inside. You can read more about the creation of this closet here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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And here it is with the door on. Though the door opens and closes, it doesn’t close smoothly — it gets stuck halfway closed. To close it the rest of the way, I have been reaching down from above and holding on to the top of the closet with my fingers while pushing the door into a flat position with my thumb. I can’t do that once the ceiling is on, so this may well be the last we ever see of the inside of this closet.<\/p>\n

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On the other side of the wall, in the master bathroom<\/a>, I added shelves to the shower. First I glued on these shampoo bottles and soap in a dish. I should have added labels first but I was impatient to get this done, and finding\/resizing\/printing labels seemed like a big chore at the time. (The lack of labels will probably annoy me forever…)<\/p>\n

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I glued in the top shelf first, with a spacer below it to hold it at the right height.<\/p>\n

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Then I glued in the bottom shelf the same way.<\/p>\n

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Done! In hindsight I wish I had added grout to the seams where the shower walls and floor meet each other. Oh well.<\/p>\n

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I also made a little towel holder to go near the sink. The round part is half of a toggle clasp. I stuck a head pin through the hole, with crimp beads on either side to keep the pin from slipping out. The towel is a piece of a baby washcloth from the dollar store.<\/p>\n

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I used the micro drill to make a hole in the side of the linen closet. (This would have been easier if I’d done it before I glued in the closet…)<\/p>\n

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Before gluing in the roof, I cut trim pieces to go over the door and around the linen closet. This would have been much harder to do with the ceiling in place.<\/p>\n

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I actually did all of this prep work almost a year ago, before packing up the Victorianna so Geoff could renovate my workshop. Now that the flat roof is ready<\/a>, I can finally glue it on. I applied The Ultimate super glue to the tops of the walls and back roof. <\/p>\n

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The flat roof piece was slightly warped. I put a clamp on the chimney to squeeze it flat against the center wall.<\/p>\n

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I also weighted it down with heavy books.<\/p>\n

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Due to the angle of the back roof, it barely touches the flat roof where the two pieces meet, so I glopped a ton of tacky glue under the eave to provide more of a bond. I would have used The Ultimate for this, but it’s thick; the thinner tacky glue is much easier to glop like this. (To glop,<\/em> verb. It’s a technical term.)<\/p>\n

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There’s a dark crack where the bathroom walls don’t quite reach all the way to the ceiling. On the wallpapered walls this will be covered with trim, but not in the shower.<\/p>\n

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It was hard to get a good picture, but I added white grout to the crack above the shower walls. This was very hard to do due to the depth of the room and it’s not as neat as I would have liked, but at least my eye isn’t drawn to that dark crack anymore.<\/p>\n

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I used a toothpick to try to shove the trim above the door into place, not realizing how pointy the toothpick was — it made little pinholes in the paint, which you can see in the photo above. I was able to cover these up with fresh paint, but again it wasn’t easy due to the depth of the room.<\/p>\n

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That’s a wrap on the bathroom! <\/p>\n

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Well, mostly. I’m not sure if I’m going to use this toilet in here… if I do, I have to find the seat that came with it. (It’s 3D printed, from Mini Etchers, and the seat is laser cut wood. I’m sure I have it lying around somewhere…) I should also add a bath mat and another towel rack or two, but I’m not sure where to put them. Above the toilet? On the back of the door?<\/p>\n

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Back to the bedroom. Turns out I can still open and close the closet door! To close it, I have to reach around to the right side and push on the folded part to force it flat. I probably shouldn’t do that too often and risk breaking it, but it’s nice that it’s still possible.<\/p>\n

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The area above the door is slightly too short for crown molding to fit — the bottom of the crown just overlaps the top of the door trim.<\/p>\n

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I dealt with this by notching out the portion above the door ever so slightly.<\/p>\n

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(Sorry for these shadowy pictures! Even with the skylight, the ceiling makes the room dark, and my camera sucks in low light.)<\/p>\n

Like with the shower walls, there’s a crack above the closet trim where it doesn’t quite meet the ceiling. I wanted to fill this in with wood filler and paint it but I just couldn’t reach to do it. <\/p>\n

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Instead I cut a very skinny piece of basswood trim to cover that gap.<\/p>\n

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So that’s a wrap on the bedroom, too! My next task will be to glue on the sloped part of the roof<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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