Coping With the Saws.....

This is not going to be one of those blogs with lots of pretty photos of pretty houses all dressed and neat. Today you get to see what I am doing with coping saws, keyhole saws and Mr. Dremel.(jig saw)

I awakened this morning to dreams of a dumbwaiter in the kitchen, leading to the workroom above. No longer is it a bathroom. That will have to go somewhere else......I may have to add more rooms.

I rummaged around and found the window piece that I knew was scrap. I found that the center of that piece was a window, so I had to cut a new center out of scrap.

Then I dug up one of the interior doors to trace on the side of the wall. I cut it out. It is a bit rough in spots. Thank goodness this house begs for trims. Mind you, I had to cut the door out while standing on my head, balancing on one hand and clutching an Exacto knife between my teeth..... Not really. It was pretty easy because I could still pop the window piece out and start the sawing there. I used a combination of coping saw and keyhole saw for that. The coping saw is good for doing the curves. The keyhole makes faster work of the straight sides and bottom.

I also had to make the window above that into a doorway. I cut it up to six inches. I know....Low door. It will be a bookcase when I finish. It will either slide or swing to reveal the workroom. I haven't decided which it will be yet.

I took this close up in the middle of cutting the doorway so that you could see my method of turning corners without breaking saw blades. See the tiny hole in the top left corner? I did that with a couple of swipes of the Exacto. That gives me enough room to change direction with the keyhole saw.

Just looking at it, I am wondering if I could do a pivoting bookcase on a center axis. Maybe that would be even easier than the other two. I always loved the ones in the movies that did that. Hmmmmmm........The wheels are turning now. No pun intended. I want this house to have all kinds of gadgets.

Back to the dreams of dumbwaiters. I decided that it would go in the corner of the kitchen. It will be two feet square. Translate that to inches. I sometimes think in feet rather than inches. It is easier for me to think real house sizes and then work it out in inches after the fact.

The dumbwaiter will sit inside the walls that are already established. I will only need the two interior walls. Here you see where it will be. It will sit on the floor/base so that the ceiling lines match. I simply took the outside piece once again and traced the roof line from that.

I know it looks funny, but "Trust me. I know what I'm doing.". That has always been a favorite phrase of mine when I am teaching classes. Invariably there will be one Doubting Thomas in every class. I may have done the same thing a hundred times, but the person in question has never done it, therefore it can't be done. My friends tease me about it, but they know that, when I use that phrase, I do know what I am doing. So.....Trust me. There will be a working dumbwaiter in that corner of the kitchen when I am done.

I am also thinking that there should be some kind of communication system between the rooms. At first I thought of the old fashioned bells on cords system, but the guy that owns this house will have none of that nonsense. He will invent something better. I hear that there is a system where the people can actually speak through tubes nowadays! I am going to have to look into that.

Excuse me whilst I go hunt for that on the new steam powered computer that I just purchased.

See you tomorrow.