For awhile now while working on the interior walls of the JayBee, I've been pondering about what to do about my wonky electrical boxes. Typically, the boxes for switches, outlets, and light fixtures should be flush or recessed from the wall boards once they're installed--like the one in this photo below.
Unfortunately, though, I have a number of boxes that were installed so that they protrude from the wall due to the framing in these areas--like these in the bathroom (below).
Back before I insulated the walls, I should have yanked out these boxes and replaced them with specialty boxes that were shallow enough to fit correctly. I didn't do that then, and now it's too late to do it. So I had to come up with a solution.
My solution was to create some custom trim to install around the protruding electrical boxes.
When I created the custom trim piece for the bathroom, I also created one for the living room. I painted this one barn red because it will be installed inside my entry/office cupboard, which is painted barn red on the inside back. (It's not installed in the photo below, just temporarily propped in place in order to take the photo.)
While waiting for the various layers of finish to dry on those trim pieces, I cleaned and rearranged everything inside the JayBee in order to open up access to the south wall--so I can begin installing wall boards here.
My biggest challenge with this wall will be working around the jutting-out wheel well that will interfere with the first two rows of boards. I had a similar problem on the north wall but, since the wheel well did not stick out as far on that side, I was able to carve out the back sides of the boards on that first north row to fit around the wheel well.
I still have the closet half on its side as a paint stand for the longer boards...
... and I set up my other painting area inside the bed alcove.
Ready to roll!
Also see:
Interior Walls 1
Interior Walls 2
Interior Walls 3
Interior Walls 4
Interior Walls 5
Interior Walls 6
Interior Walls 7
Interior Walls 8
Interior Walls 9
Interior Walls 10
Interior Walls 11
Interior Walls 12
Interior Walls 13
Interior Walls 15
Turkeys wandered through the yard the other day. Hard to imagine that Maine was once so devoid of turkeys that they had to be reintroduced starting back in the 1940s, given how many I now see on a regular basis.
