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E24 | West Roxbury Victorian | Boho Chic
04/07/22 | 23m 42s | Rating: TV-G
It has been a little bit of this and a little bit of that at the 1890s West Roxbury Victorian. Cabinets and a vent hood are being installed in the kitchen. The homeowners daughter chooses a paint color for her Boho Chic-inspired bedroom. An 1890s stained glass window is repaired in the entryway, and large format floor tiles are laid out to be installed in the master bathroom.
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E24 | West Roxbury Victorian | Boho Chic
Kevin
Today on "This Old House," our multi depth kitchen cabinets look great. We'll show you how to install them and a vent hood as well, and in our master bathroom with the curb-less shower, we're going to figure out how to lay out these large format tiles. And we'll show you how boho chic is going to set this room apart from the rest of the house. Hi there. I'm Kevin O'Connor, and welcome back to "This Old House" into our 1890s Victorian here in West Roxbury, where interior trim work is starting, there's a little bit of this and that -- in this little seating area you can see we've got new baseboards and around this new window, we've actually got the old casings. They were saved and repurposed; in places where we didn't have enough, new casings were brought in. That's a pretty close match. And then the homeowners have made a decision on the floors. They've gone with a stripped red oak, 2 1/4 inches wide, and they did that because they wanted to match what was in the house. And you can see that match right here. Tommy and Deliandro wove the new into the old. So the next step is to sand everything down, three coats of poly, and that's going to happen as soon as we hang the kitchen cabinets. Hey,
Deliandro. -Deliandro
Hey, Kevin.
Kevin
Look at the progress. I love it. Cabinets goin' in, you got the bases set already.
Yeah. -Kevin
Our island and some of the uppers in.
Deliandro
Yeah, that's coming out really nice. Let me show you what we got over here. This is like dark color cabinet. This is our tall cabinet cabinet, this is our starting point. Our goal today would be finishing off this whole band of cabinets and then tying into what we already have installed.
Kevin
Perfect. And then you got different color lowers just beneath that.
Deliandro
Yeah, if you do have enough time, we're going to pop those in today as well.
Kevin
All right, I'll give you a hand. So you start with a cleat.
Deliandro
Yeah, so we have the cleat over there in order to provide us some support, you know, we're hanging these upper cabinets, they're a little bit heavy, and also, we are projecting the level line -- this cleat and that cleat are all in the same height.
Kevin
So that's a consistent height off of the base cabinets.
Deliandro
Exactly, which is 54.5 inches
from our base cabinet. -Kevin
Gotcha.
Deliandro
So I got a 54.5 like right over here.
Yep. -Deliandro
As you can see, when we tie that upper cabinet to this one, we have the same dimension right there.
Kevin
Gotcha, so your level off of your base cabinets and that's going to get us just above the window line.
Exactly. -Kevin
Okay. Is this the first one?
Deliandro
Yeah, that's the first one.
All right. -Deliandro
Thank you, Kevin. So we a couple of spots that we're going to have this puck lights over the window, so here there's a low voltage wire, they got to put there. Got it over there?
Yep. -Deliandro
All right. So now we're going to go up.
Kevin
There we go.
Deliandro
Okay.
I got it. -Deliandro
Just grab my clamp. Hold this in place. There we go.
Kevin
Betcha that's going to be.... Oh yeah, baby.
Deliandro
So now that we have this clamp holding down the cabinet, I'm going to screw down... Another one in back. Let's go.
Kevin
Good, you're on the cleat.
Deliandro
And Kevin, so, you can see that we came to this point and the cabinets are not aligning. That's because our wall is off plumb, and for that, we need to adjust it a little bit by padding on the bottom of our cabinet. A little bit more.
Hammer striking
Deliandro
There we go, there we go, we're good.
Kevin
Looks good. So what's the solution for this corner?
Deliandro
I precut a couple of pieces of the same material as the doors; you want to make sure that they sit flush with the doors, so we have this line going all the way around the kitchen.
Kevin
Flush with the doors not with the cabinets. Okay, I get the look. So that means you've got to blind-fasten those.
Deliandro
Yes, yes. Let me show you how to do this. So this piece here, this is going to sit flush with the box of the cabinet, so it offsets the corner to the door panel. So now the next step would be adding this flange into the filler that we made. Once we have this flange set up, we can screw from the cabinet into the flange. This is going to sit flush with our panels. All right, so here's our corner. You know, nice and flush with our door.
Kevin
Looks good. Get the clamp in there.
Deliandro
All right. So nice and flush over here. So once we tighten everything up, adjust our door, it will align perfectly.
Kevin
And these are shallower than the top ones there.
Deliandro
Yes, they are. We've got to patch behind this cabinet here, just like we did on the upper cabinet.
Kevin
Right there.
Deliandro
Yeah, I got a filler to put in there, two side panels, and the top trim board to put in there.
Kevin
I get the look though, right? So we've got the two tones with the dark wood, light wood, and then also the two planes, right, where these are set back, it's a good, modern look.
Deliandro
Yeah, it looks beautiful.
Kevin
Nice job. Boston designer and color expert Cheryl Rosenberg has come to help make choices for the daughter's room. Hey, Cheryl. Hey, Robin. Aria, nice to meet you. So we're working on your room today.
Yeah. -Kevin
All right. So you're in good hands -- Cheryl, what do you got for us?
Cheryl
Thank you. Well, ultimately, we're here to pick out a paint color, but I wanted to chat with Aria a bit about her style. Tell me more about that.
Aria
My style is a form of the bohemian style. But it's a more modern twist on it called boho chic.
Kevin
You're familiar with boho chic?
Cheryl
Absolutely, boho chic is a modern, like you said, interpretation of bohemian style, and bohemian style originated in Paris in the 1800s, really, with artists who wanted to live this freewheeling lifestyle and just be very open and unconventional. So I wanted to just give you some perspective of what a classic bohemian room might have looked like. We've got lots of different colors. What do you see here?
Aria
I really like how all the textures bring the room to life. But I feel like the colors are little more vibrant than I'm used to.
Kevin
So that sounds like a polite "bo"-no. You got any other tricks in your bag?
Cheryl
I think I can handle it. All right, so this is what I put together for you. You can still see all of the amazing textures that are characteristic of bohemian, but things are toned down and much more sophisticated.
Kevin
How do you feel about this, Aria? Does this work for you?
Aria
Yeah, it's beautiful. I really like all the different tans and pinks and neutrals, how they go so well together with all the greenery and the textures.
Kevin
And so we're not just working off a board because I'm seeing things here, so you can actually lay hands on some of these choices.
Cheryl
Right, because this -- all of these things come from different cultures around the world, and you want to be able to touch them to really understand what goes into making a handcrafted piece like this.
Kevin
So, Aria, mom, seeing it, touching it, does this sort of scratch your boho itch.
Definitely. -Kevin
And does it leave you in a position to start choosing a paint color?
Yeah. -Kevin
Can we do that?
Cheryl
Let's do it. All right.
Kevin
Always nice to have samples up on the wall.
Cheryl
Yeah, I've got five different pinks up here for you to choose from. I've got this warm terra cotta color, this romantic rose color, and a lavender that has a little bit of gray in it. And then we've got these two whites that are very warm, and then this one's got a cooler undertone.
Kevin
Anything jump out at you, Aria?
Aria
Um... I really like the Gorgeous White because I'm such a happy light kind of feel to the room, which I feel like is all about the boho chic style. And I feel like a cool thing to do would be an accent color of the Dressy Red.
Kevin
She's throwing a curve ball, mom, she's already mixing it up, you good with an accent wall?
Cheryl
Absolutely. I love it.
Kevin
All right. Well, that sounds like a boho go then. We're going to hold to that, Aria. Thank you,
Cheryl. -Cheryl
Thank you, Kevin.
Kevin
Back in the 1890s when this house was built, one of the things that people were attracted to was that they could have these beautiful features a balustrade with this flair, things that used to be inaccessible to so many folks. A front door with a lot of panels, a center light; or a stained glass window in the foyer. Hey,
Cathryn. -Cathryn
Hey, Kevin, are you?
Good to see you again. -Cathryn
Good to see you.
Kevin
So what do you think of our window?
Cathryn
It's beautiful. It's a window that I see all over, and I always appreciate seeing them.
Kevin
And mechanically, what do you think?
Cathryn
Mechanically it's -- it's great.
It's top notch except for -- -Kevin
Ooh.
Cathryn
Do it again. That one's different 'cause it has a break -- it's hard to see because it's clear glass, but there's a break.
You can fix that. -Cathryn
I'm gonna take it out. I'm going to fix it. I've scored it. So any shellac or anything has been cut through. So see if you can pry it up now a little bit. Perfect, Kevin. Perfect. There. That's it,
that's it. -Kevin
Oh, there it is.
There it goes. -Kevin
Beautiful. And with it out, I can go fix it.
Kevin
All right, coming in.
Cathryn
First thing I'm going to do is I'm going to cover up these cut pieces because I don't want to get cut when I take it out the whole way... because I will be banging a little bit to get this glazing out. The glazing is the bit that holds it in right here.
Kevin
Sometimes it just comes right out.
Cathryn
Sometimes it does, and that's very nice. But other times it doesn't. So I will use my utility blade. And just go along.
Kevin
Cathryn, you said you see these all the time. We do too in these old houses and you know, they all look the same.
Cathryn
Yeah, they're uniform because they were mass-produced. Have a look at this catalog.
Kevin
Oh, look at that! That's terrific.
Cathryn
It's from the turn of the century.
Kevin
So where is this catalog from?
Cathryn
This one's from Missouri.
Kevin
And so you could just order what you need -- so you can get a double-hung with some diamond patterns. And is this ours right here?
Cathryn
That's our very window right there.
Kevin
Square with the lights all the way around a center light, what would that cost?
Cathryn
Back in the day, that would have cost $3.
Kevin
I got three bucks for you. And in today's dollars, what do you think?
Cathryn
You need 90 today.
Kevin
Oh, not bad. Just order it up.
Cathryn
Just order it up. They would put what you ordered on a train. It would have come to the station and it'd probably come rollin' right up that street by horse and buggy when it arrived.
Kevin
The Industrial Revolution gave people access to things they never had access to before. The only other place you would have seen this kind of color was in a church. And now it's in your home.
There she goes. -Cathryn
There it is. What I want to do now is I'm just going to hit this rabbet with a mixture of linseed oil and mineral spirits. The wood is going to suck up this oil. The mineral spirits are evaporating, so it's getting the oil into the wood and then the part we don't need is quickly leaving. So here's the piece of glass that I took out. So it'll be an exact fit.
Love it. -Cathryn
There it is. And now we're ready for the glazing, and because we hit this with linseed oil, this glazing is really going to bond with the wood. All right. Here's the new piece of glass, and I'm setting it right in.
Hmm. Good fit. -Cathryn
Yeah. These are called glazing points, watch how I push up, and I do that. And now the piece of glass isn't going to come out. Now the piece of glass wouldn't come out once this was dried, but it's going to take a while. Gonna push this in. Just like that. And it looks sloppy now, but I'm going to trim it. Sort of like you're trimming a pie crust. And then it'll look very, very nice. And I'm in the corner. I do like that. Now, have a look,
Kevin
And that's just going to trim away. Hmm!
Cathryn
Isn't that nice?!
Kevin
That is nice.
Cathryn
Now I'll move to this. I'm going to stab into the corner and I'm going to drag.
Kevin
And you really just want to do one pass,
Cathryn
If I can, yes.
Kevin
I mean, that's the finished look, you're going to paint right on top of that. I'll give you a turn.
Cathryn
Thank you so much. All right. Here we go.
Kevin
I've glazed windows before, Cathryn -- they don't look like that.
Cathryn
Oh, it's just practice. Next step is to clean up the glazing on these smaller lights and then the homeowners has asked me to paint it black.
Kevin
Beautiful -- and then we'll reinstall it?
Yes. -Kevin
I'll be back for that.
Cathryn
Okay, have a great day.
Kevin
Last week, our tiler Gabriel showed us how to waterproof the master bathroom with a curb-less shower and a bench, and today it's time to start laying the floor tile. Hey, Gabriel!
Gabriel
Hey, Kevin.
Kevin
Ooh! We made some progress here in the shower. Nice! Got the wall tiles up.
Gabriel
That's right. So here, Kevin, we have the 3D wavy tile in the shower here, and this is, we got the smooth. We lay on the horizontally.
Kevin
And then you've got the smooth on the opposing wall here, too. Beautiful little niche. And, oh, you've got the bench done for us.
That's right. -Kevin
Okay, so we got to start thinking about the floor tile layout.
Gabriel
That's right, Kevin, options one is to start a tile where the pitch is going to be
and also -- Kevin
Pitch change right there.
Gabriel
That's right. And also where the glass door is going to be, so we're having the grout line right center with the glass.
Kevin
Okay. Kind of makes sense to have it at the door and where the pitch changes.
Gabriel
Exactly. But let me show you why I don't like it this way, because I'm starting full tile here, see where it ends, right to the center, the drain.
Kevin
Yeah, doesn't look so good.
Gabriel
No, so let me show you option two.
Kevin
So you want this one right here?
Gabriel
Yes. The homeowner, he wants a full tile centered at the door. Um... And start against the wall.
Kevin
Okay, so against the wall, centered here, which means everything else kind of lays out accordingly.
That's right. -Kevin
Your thoughts?
Gabriel
So if you look, Kevin, we have a full tile, full tile, and the cut.
Kevin
I can tell already you don't like it.
Gabriel
Yes. So because when you look inside the shower, Kevin, the tile is not going to be symmetrical.
Kevin
All right. So is two out?
Gabriel
Yes. So let me show the option three.
Kevin
Okay.
Gabriel
I really like this option.
Kevin
That's good to hear.
Gabriel
All right. So the homeowner gets his tile center at the door? So now we have a cut, a full tile, and the cut.
Kevin
And that center tile, that's centered now on the shower.
Gabriel
Exactly. So if you look at this tile, it is symmetrical with the shower.
Kevin
Okay.
Gabriel
So to do that, we cut the tile about two inches and we were going to put a marble threshold.
Kevin
This comes off; threshold right here.
That's right. -Kevin
And you like, I like. Because as soon as I see, it looks like that's the way
it's supposed to be. -Kevin
That's right. So this is our linear drain, it's designed to have tile in. So when you put it in,
all you see a grout line. -Kevin
Right. So you just have three cut pieces in there.
Gabriel
That's right. So I cut three pieces to line up with the grout line.
Kevin
And now in terms of that corner, I mean, we've actually got multiple pitches here.
Gabriel
That's right, so we've got a pitch this way, this way, and this way.
Kevin
So multiple pieces. So that takes care of your right-to-left pitch.
Gabriel
That's right.
Kevin
And then along the back?
Gabriel
So we have this piece.
Kevin
Oh, check that out, so your vein just lined up.
Exactly. -Kevin
That is nice. Okay, so next steps for you?
Gabriel
So I'm going to finish laying the entire room, make all my cuts, and then I'm going to start removing thinset, and it'll be ready for grouting.
Kevin
A lot of work, a lot of thinking,
but it's going to look great. -Gabriel
Thank you.
All right. Thanks. -Gabriel
All right.
Kevin
Deliandro, I'll give you a hand with that.
Deliandro
All right, Kevin. So we got this vent hood. We got to get it vented to the outside. So we have that straight piece of duct work, it's going to go over here --
Kevin
From the motor up through the top of the cabinet.
Deliandro
From the motor up. And then I got this 90 degrees that's going to go from the top of the cabinets to the back wall, which is a closet that we have in the back. All right. Let me show you the route to the outside. All right, Kevin. So this is the closet behind the kitchen.
Kevin
Closets are nice in this situation, right?
Deliandro
Yeah, exactly. So I drilled the pilot hole while I was up there. I got this elbow that comes off from the kitchen towards the left. The good thing about this, it's a very short run, it's inside a closet. Homeowners will never see that once we box it out. Let me show you the outside. All right, Kevin, this is the kitchen wall right over here. So kitchen would be on that side. That's where the hood is installed, and this is the office space where the closet is. Our duct work should be coming right around
this area over here. -Kevin
Okay.
Deliandro
All right, so we need to drill a pilot hole. Let's do that. All right, Kevin, here's the six inch duct work that we have, so we need to do -- to be two inches off the ceiling. So I got my five inch mark right over here.
Kevin
Center three, plus two -- I got that.
Deliandro
Yeah, and then 3.5 inches from the back wall where is our kitchen. All right, thank you. Now I'm going to use my oscillating saw to cut the siding. Gonna this zinc flashing in. Now I'm going to caulk around three sides and I'm going to leave the bottom open so it can drain out if the water gets behind it. Now secure with four screws. We've got a center mark so I can drill through my blocking in the siding wall. So now I'm going through the sheet rock inside. All right, thank you. So, Kevin, we have here the screen to keep the critters out. This here's the louver for to keep the air out.
Kevin
So closed when it's off, and it'll just pop open when it's running.
Deliandro
Exactly. So and then we have attached this 12 inch piece, this neck that we can go through the wall
and attach it on the inside. -Kevin
Perfect. We're securing the wall cap with screws. So now we've got to connect that neck back to the hood. Last piece is in, wanna give it a shot?
Kevin
Sure. A couple of different settings.
Yeah. -Kevin
That cranks!
Deliandro
It's really powerful, huh -- 600 CFM. So as you know, anything over 400 CFM requires a make-up air event for it.
Kevin
Right, make-up air is important because these things can pull so much air out of the house that you can start pulling flue gases from a chimney or extinguish a pilot light. So if this is on, we want air coming in from somewhere else.
Deliandro
Yeah, exactly, and for that we've got our HVAC guys is going to be doing all the installation the basement for us, so he's going to be adding that make-up air for us.
Kevin
All right. Let me just see what it does
on crank mode. -Deliandro
All right. Let's give it a shot.
Kevin
That'll do it, right?
Deliandro
Yeah, it does.
It's quite powerful. -Kevin
Nice job, Deliandro.
Deliandro
All right. Thank you.
Kevin
Oh, there it is!
Here it is. -Kevin
Might I have a look?
Please do. -Kevin
So what all did you have to do to it?
Cathryn
I ended up reglazing the whole darn thing, painting it black, and then, of course, replace that.
Kevin
Beautiful. All right, ready to go in?
Cathryn
It's ready to go in. Black side out to match the rest of the trim.
Kevin
Okay, you've got the stops in.
Cathryn
Yeah. Here's the first one, and it's going to plop right in there.
That's it. -Kevin
Good for you.
Cathryn
Good to go.
Kevin
Look at that. Let me have a look at it. That's awesome. Cannot thank you enough for that help.
Cathryn
My pleasure,
Kevin. -Kevin
All right. Well, the finishing touches are starting to come into this house and there are plenty more to come. So until next time, I'm Kevin O'Connor for "This Old House" here in West Roxbury. Next time on "This Old House"...
Tom
These doors open and close perfectly, and the gaps are consistent. And we'll show you how we did it.
Man
What are you looking at here is a 2D top view of the countertops and the backsplash. We're going to try and match up the veins on either side so that we get a consistent flow.
Kevin
And we'll make our brand-new windows match our original 1890s window trim.
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