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Sun, 05 Oct 2008
Civilization sometimes visits even me.
"Cezares Illusion"
That's how my shower cabin and bathroom corner look now. It took me virtually years to make this, but practically a day to install the cabin, and still bathroom is not completed yet. I need to finish tile glueing and water hatch installation.
Also need to complete brick tiles glueing (roughly 7 sqare meters of walls in kitchen), which likely will be done with bathroom glueing.
There is a lot of work, but actually not that much as may look from the first view. I just need a special development mood to start doing it good and fast, which, as a muse, does not come on demand.
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Thu, 04 Sep 2008
The table and shelves.
That's how my self-made table looks.
It was made out of old enter wood door. Table's geometry is roughly 2000x1500 mm.
Table has single steel leg (I thought to continue it to the
ceiling and put some shelves on it, but it is future development,
if will be started at all) and is attached to the wall and was made
as windowsill continuation.
Now I need to get a good computer chair and install several book shelves on top
of the left side of the table (which is located at the left of the window on
the picture), since books and prints are scattered all over the room.
While searched for the wood screws in the cellar, found a special ceramic tile
drill, and although I'm pretty sure it will not be enough to drill lots of holes
in my tiles, I will be able to create 2-4 holes for the shower cabin and shower
guide.
Also finished bottle X-shelves.
Will install them later though. Also I do not have enough bottles (of whatever) to fill it right now,
there are 24 cells in the shelves.
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Sun, 31 Aug 2008
Meanwhile at appartment development side.
I did not work with my appartment development quite for a while
already, and it was not because there is nothing to do, but
instead because of my lazyness and lots of other tasks to complete.
Other projects suddenly did not dissapear, but today was so cold
for the summer (and where is the global warming, when it is needed?),
that I decided not to move to the office what I do
every other day.
Today's appartment development included table painting and shower cabin
installation.
Those who follow my blog quite for a while could rememeber that I started to
make my own table many many months ago, but now it is close to its finish
as was never before. The only task to be made is downside drawing and waiting
for layers to become dry. I will then install it to the wall and connect
single leg. This table will not be moved, since it has only single leg
and hardly attached to the walls in the corner.
That is roughly how table will look like.
Color of the left wall is white, back wall is blue, carpet is somewhat blue too.
Shower cabin installation actually was not planned (as long as anything else), since I have so strong ceramic tiles on the walls, that usuall thin drill (6 mm) can only produce single hole, it is almost impossible to drill multiple holes, since drill becomes blunt. I wanted to move to the development shop and buy number of special drills for this task, but then decided to experiment with pobedit drills I have. They are supposed to drill super concrete without problems, but they failed to work with my ceramic tiles. Well, I killed three drills and managed to drill 8 holes only, and I needed to first drill smaller hole (4 mm) and then extend it with 6 mm drill. This is the only way to drill my walls :)
Then I needed to drill a concrete wall, but using perforator and appropriate augers it is not a complex task at all: several seconds for 6 mm hole with essentially any (supported by the auger of course) depth.
Unfortunately to install a shower cabin I need to have 10 holes: two times of 4 holes to fix the glass wall guides, since there are two fixed walls and single moving one, and two holes to fix special stabilizing bar, which is used to hold the walls in a different dimension. But I did not drill the last two holes, since I have no sharp drills anymore and would not want to drill the concrete walls with perforator at this time (I believe it is quite late for this kind of work Sunday evening).
That is how my shower cabin will look like ("Cezares Illusion" model). Interior is different of course.
Also filled number of holes between tiles (which is fixed last time, when I bought special rubber hammer) with water-resistant paste. Next time (it would be great to finish it next week, but as usual it can be postponed for the couple of months) I will complete shower cabin installation, finally install my table, paint appropriate places and start (or even complete) bricks glueing (well, not bricks itself, but small tiles with approprite texture) in the kitchen... There are so many things to complete, and although it requires really not that lots of time, I still can not finish them.
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Sun, 15 Jun 2008
Meanwhile at appartment development side.
Decided to work on completely different than usual
area today, so neverending appartment development.
Today I painted whole ceiling in the kitched and I want to belive,
that it is the last time. It was not that quick, but took noticebly smaller
amount of day.
Main task was floor in the hall. I finially covered it with ceramic granite.
It was supposed to be seamless granite installation, but... tiles have so precise
dimensions, that difference between them was never more than half of santimeter
in each side, so I was forced to make small seams and move tiles around quite
for a while before they formed somewhat straight lines, although there are
lots of non-straight crosses.
Nevertheless it looks cool, I'm glad I finished this part.
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Thu, 15 May 2008
Meanwhile at appartment development side.
I installed vater system for the shower and thought to install
the whole cabin, but found (as usual) that I do not have drills
for the ceramic tiles. So, that will be postponed for a while.
Also I expect glue for ceramic tiles to be delivered today (as long
as brick tiles), so that I can start hall granite covering. Although
I'm a bit tired after water system installation, which took major
part of the day.
It is actually simple task, but only when you have simple access to
all parts. Now imagine a 10 sm thick wall, where you managed to drill
two holes, each one about 2 sm in diameter (less than two fingers thick).
In a meter below-left there is a bigger hole for sanitary (about
15x15 sm). Water system hatch is located 2.5 meters right to this.
Task is to put thin water tubes from water hatch to two small holes,
but that splitter would be installed near bigger sanitary hole. Without
direct access to any tube (you can only feel it, can not see) you have to
connect them (also need to mention, that it is quite hard to put
both hands into bigger hole for sanitary system) via different connectors
using spanners.
I've completed the task, although not sure if it is really safe. That was
challenging, and power sucking, so probably I will just slack this evening
and hack some bits of captcha.
Will also cover my table with the last colour level (yes, yes, it is still
not done) and/or fill second varnish layer for x-shelves (they look really cool
after mordant and varnish)...
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Mon, 12 May 2008
Meanwhile at appartment development side.
I moved to development shop and got zillions of stuff there
including various colours for ceiling in kitchen and room's ceiling
plinth, ordered brick-like tiles for kitchen (about one third of
walls there will be covered with bricks), got some intrument
(like rubber hummer for the tiles), ordered glue for the
ceramic granite for hall, also got a shower (yumi, my shower
cabin was delivered today too) and related stuff for water
system installation.
By the original plan, I wanted to isntall shower cabin today, but getting
into account current time, it is too late for loud work,
so I will proceed with my table instead. It will be completed
today, or call me a ... whatever you like (out of curiosity,
is there an english undecent word dictionary? I know russian
one exists).
If things will move fast, I will also cover with varnish my X-shelves,
and probably will make some photos...
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Sun, 20 Apr 2008
Meanwhile at appartment development side.
Moved to the 'Leroy Merlin' development shop to get lots of stuff and
found so huge crowd of people, that decided to run away as quickly as possible.
While walking there found couple of interesting things:
- wood plates from small to 2000x600, which are perfectly polished, have acceptible for table/shelf/cupboard development thicknes, and have too small price to resist to buy. When I started my table developemnt there were no such things in broad usage at all, but I will not stop, just because I found materials, which allow to build it much faster and simpler. But for usual shelves I will definitely get it there and will not implement things myself from real wood plates (those ones are made using glueing technology from much smaller plates, I used similar to implement thick enough part of my 'L'-style table).
- bath cabins are incredibly ugly and unacceptibly bad-made. I knew that before though.
- found bar installation, which want to setup at home - likely it will be my only table in kitchen, I like it very much.
- my kitchen (actually right now it is heavily used as joinery only) has only 3/4 of walls covered with wallpapers, today I've known, that my wallpaper model will not be sold anymore, so either I will have to reglue most of the kitchen, or I will create some interesting installation on the remaining part of the walls, and I think I already know what to put there: just like my blue wall in the room, I will put some brick-like elements in the kitchen. As a ceiling light I will install a huge wood beam hinged on chains with attached small lights. Or maybe not, who knows...
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Wed, 16 Apr 2008
Meanwhile at appartment development side.
Nothing happend, but I made couple of photos. Will setup a full gallery somewhat
later, when finish things, so far couple room photos and x-shelves.
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Wed, 27 Feb 2008
Meanwhile at appartment development side: wine shelves.
Still trying to make something interesting at home, since there is no
access to servers to fix things and implement new ideas...
Shelves will have a classical wine-cellar design, something like this:
|\ /\ /\ /| | \/ \/ \/ | | /\ /\ /\ | |/ \/ \/ \| |\ /\ /\ /| | \/ \/ \/ | | /\ /\ /\ | |/__\/__\/__\|I can not make a photo of the workplace, where wood plates are placed because of the ever crappiest repair service of Nikon, so enjoy that pseudo-grahics instead :)
Originally it was supposed to host not only bottles of wine (I do not drink wine though), beer and strong alcohol, but also some books, but I made a mistake in the design which was further increased when plates were sawn by the people (well, I gained a huge experience of not letting others do the thing I can do better, even if I pay them for that), so cells became smaller (it now can host only about 5-6 classical (0.5l) bottles of beer, each side of the square is about 17 sm) and have cut side. Both this issues forced me to rething design a little bit, so now shelves reduced its functionality, but looks probably even more interesting than in original design.
So far I did not finished wood polishing and did not start its mordanting and plastering, but only contructed the whole structure on the floor, so it will take a while to finish, but result is expected to worth all the eforts.
One told me that there is something similar in Ikea, well, there is always something similar in Ikea no matter what you created or only thought about, but that completely does not matter - only process of creation matters and that is the most interesting and important.
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Thu, 14 Feb 2008
Meanwhile at appartment development side.
Well, when you are sick it is generally not a very good idea
to work on something, but this state can produce very interesting
ideas. So, I decided to change my table,
so I 'disconnected' a leg (there is only one, other side is connected to the wall near the window),
removed all varnish layers using a plane, polished
a bit by grinding machine and painted both sides of the table
with new dark chocolate colour. Looks pretty good, but since orgalite,
used on both sides, is made out of wood fibers, it is not 100% smooth,
although second layer of the colur is a mandatory, it is possible,
that it will not be enough. I want if not completely smooth surface,
but at least that hand moved on top of it would eel nothing. Managed
to paint hands and feet, but at least hair was not touched (although
I'm not sure).
Also installed number of electricity sockets, so there is no need to place kettle
far from the 'bed' (i.e. part of the floor).
Overall it was a good development day, I expect next one to be as much
as productive if not more. Nevertheless I hate to be sick...
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Sun, 10 Feb 2008
Completed electricity socket setup.
Also replaced electricity switch with the new one and installed
warm floor thermal system in the bathrom, but the latter is not yet
fully completed (wires are connected without good isolation yet
and thermal controller is not placed into its own socket in the wall,
but hungs around on wires), but it work (do not know how good, and
I will turn electricity off when move from home, will check it
thermal capabilities when I'm able to stop the fire...
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Sat, 09 Feb 2008
Meanwhile at appartment development side.
I started electricity projects in the bathroom, which required
to setup electicity sockets for light switch and warm floor. During
installation I managed to get dirty of assembly foam, which,
if you do not know, is much much more heavier to clean than
any other material we have. And I managed to make dirty
not hands (that's usual), but hair (I first time worked without hat).
This forced me to wash my head with acetone... It was not that bad actually,
maybe except its smell, so eventually I cleaned almost all dirty areas
(about one quarter I belive, since I have no mirror I can not say for sure)
and washed it couple of times usual way, but that stopped me from further
development for today.
Maybe I will finish it tomorrow.
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Thu, 07 Feb 2008
Got grinding wheel machine from frieds.
Will order some equipment tomorrow and continue table and shelves
development.
Since my kitchen is not completed, it will be cleaned and
temporarily transformed into wood workshop. I also have to complete
some electricity projects (in kitchen, bathroom and hall).
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Sat, 26 Jan 2008
Meanwhile at appartment development side.
I think I completed my bathroom cleaning, ceiling installation
and so on, the only missing thing there is single corner
of 3 tiles wide - I have no glue for ceramic tiles so can not
finish it yet, but eventually things will be completed.
Today I even installed washing machine there. Likely
for all of you this sounds like a complete craziness, but I lived
with hand washing more than a year already in my loft, now I think
I entered 21 century. Not tested yet though.
Next task is either to get glue for ceramic tiles and finish bathroom
and hall, or implement book/bottle shelves. My camera will be ready
(hopefully soon, I already confirmed repair price), so expect
a lot of photos of the place I used to live for a while arelady.
I really like it.
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Tue, 22 Jan 2008
Meanwhile at appartment development side.
I spent the whole day filling holes between ceramic tiles
(2-3 mm) with the special water-proof plaster. It is about 23:00 in Moscow,
but things are not yet completed, but I will postpone it for a while,
since tired to work in dust today.
Also got lots of wood plates to either finish table (although they
are thiner than table itself) or start book/bottle shelves
development.
I got about 12 meters of 10 and 13 sm wood plates (three plates of two meters each
for each size), each has 2 sm thickness. That should be enough for smaller installation,
but since I want to have a et of X-shelves about 2 meters high, I will get
more when finish to work with thoe ones. Likely I will start it this weekend.
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Thu, 17 Jan 2008
Meanwhile at appartment development side.
I've entered civilized world - I have an Internet at home now,
and not crappy slow gprs link, but real bloody fast connection.
As additional steps I completed hinged clulstered ceiling in the bathroom,
although its pieces will be removed and placed back after some time,
since I did not finish tile glueing yet, since I have no glue...
I also got some technics, which makes my living even more comfortable.
Also created an intersting design for book shelves, they will be shared
with bottle cellar and will look like a lot of letters 'X' near each other,
or like grating rotated to 45 degrees, it will be abou 1.5-2 meters high.
I will made it of wood with the missing part of the
table soon
(hopefully I will get materials this weekend). There is also a plan to get
tile glue and setup ceramic granite in the hall, after this task is finished,
I can say the whole development process is really about its end.
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