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Applied a light first coat of then two more wet coats was happy to see this Krylon lay down pretty nicely over the primer Set them out in the sun and let dry... ended up taking one can per light. All but a couple of the mogul sockets are good so will need to find...

Way back somewhere in the pages of this thread I told of finding a great deal on these Abolite porcelain lights that were removed from a churches gymnasium. Got them for something under $20 a piece. Problem was that they had been painted at some point when the gyms ceiling was spray painted...

another upper wall in the books.... I used the actual wall board from the old house on this one.

More or less, yeah, but will have memorabilia from the 20's thru the 50's displayed and even some 70's in respect to my '79 Estate Wagon. I think you'll find most of the answers to your questions throughout the thread, if not get back... yeah, new wood prices are pathetic!!! Just paid $65 a...

and some people have time for such:rolleyes:

I doubt it but what the hell, it's only work. :LOL:

Time to begin work on the rest of the walls above the wainscoting. After all the wallboard had been treated on the backsides with Boracare and allowed time to dry, it was time to plane or sand their surface. Most of the unpainted wallboard ran through the Makita planer with not much trouble...

Well, this is all but a few pieces of the beadboard, so the other three walls will be the actual wallboard from the old house and also the flooring from it....stay tuned...

Thanks Jay, those windows work great with the airflow, pulls cool air in from the cooler garage area.

Well, it did take quite a bit of massaging actually. :giggle: Thanks, I wasn't sure how the horizontal over the vertical was going to look but am satisfied with it.

and bam, just like that all the beadboard just jumped up on the wall

After spending almost two days cleaning and rejuvenating the shellac on the beadboard already installed, I decided to clean and rejuvenate the rest prior to installation. Went much much better. and in this video you can see how this old man did it. Basically, clean any dirty spots...

In preparation for installing the wall board above the wainscoting, I sanded a couple of the nicer pieces of 1" x 5 " heart pine flooring and cut it down to 3" to use for the chair rail. Nailed in the two pieces on the end walls but left the ones either side of the doors and windows loose so...

You're behind?!!!!!! I'm way behind in posting what I've got done but thing is, if I stay on this computer reading and posting on GJ and some other forums I frequent too much, I'll never get done with the build. So there we have it, eh.... ;)

Thanks Uncle Willie. We have to keep a close eye on ol Elvis. Last week he picked up a 3" piece of the wall board cut off and took off up the hill and pitched it around a few times and chewed on it for awhile, he does this all the time with pieces of cut offs. The next morning he was drooling...

I love working with shellac, any mistakes or later scratches can be corrected by just rubbing out with denatured alcohol. It can also be rejuvenated in the same way although that process takes some trial and error to figure out to what amount/extent to apply and remove the da...

and finally install some beadboard The 2x2 pine strips are temporary stops for the tops of the bb and will be pulled and replaced with some nice heart pine chair rail. There will be a 9-10 inch baseboard installed and within it the electrical receptacles.

After weeks of nothing but cleaning and treating all the salvage lumber, it was truly exhilarating to finally start installing some of it. As you'll see here, I have skipped the boring times of installation of electrical and insulation. First was to install the 3/4" lath for the wainscoting. I...

My thoughts too. I have powder post beetles in the old barn and really nothing feasible that I can do about them, I do NOT want them in thjs building!!! Everything in this build except the trusses is treated, I wish I had treated them.

Here are the only pictures I could find of the wallboards, taken during the Boracare treatment... about half were never painted and are some beautiful old growth and heart pine boards, hate i didn't get any pics of the top faces.... See all the PPB holes!!!! Have not seen any evidence...