Wainscoting goes up in the bathroom!

With Dad’s help and guidance, the wainscoting was a much easier job than I thought.  I went for the 4×8 sheets, because I was able to find 3/8″ thick, wide-panel beadboard that looks authentic - thanks to Tarheel Lumber (which I considered boycotting on principle, but there was no Blue Devil Lumber to be found).  Also, since there are still unanswered questions about this bathroom (will it become a stairwell?  will it be outfitted with a regular tub and shower someday? will the adjacent bedroom lose its closet so that the bathroom can be larger? are all the dimensionless parameters that characterize the physical universe calculable in principle or are some merely determined by historical or quantum mechanical accident and therefore uncalculable?), so I was hesitant to put up regular tongue-n-groove boards with glue that would destroy the sheetrock should it ever need to be removed. 

The first piece goes in…

The head-scratching actually means, “Something’s not right here.  That corner is WAY too straight!”  We actually did not need to use mouldings to hide any of the corners - it truly looks fabulous, if I say so myself.  My house may be lopsided, and the walls may be wavy, but this room turned out to be somewhat square.

More than once today, Dad has happily said, ”It’s your house, not mine - YOU do it!  Hey - I like this!” 

Of course, what you are witnessing here is me cutting OUT the piece that was supposed to stay IN, with Dad happily watching.  Hey Moe!  Hey Larry!

And the final piece.  Pay no attention to the curve in that wall… 

And - it’s done!  See there at the bottom?  I actually screwed up twice while cutting out the notches around the window.  Thankfully, the baseboard will cover the mistake, so we just flipped the board over and tried again.  It’s beginning to look like a bathroom-to-be!