Groovy

We did have a wooden panel fitted to the side of the cupboard. But it was slightly too big, it didn’t match the panels of the cupboard well and it was fitted badly. It just didn’t quite look right. So Brian had an idea to remove it and create his own panelling, something he’d been thinking about trying for a while.

He started by marking out the squares of the panels he wanted to create on the wall.

What he hadn’t planned for was a wall that was bent in every direction, in fact nothing seemed to be square. I’m really not sure why this was a surprise to him, when it comes to walls nothing in our house is very square.

Undaunted, he then started cutting the wood to frame the panel, to give it depth. When he went to fit it, he realised he needed to add some vertical cuts on the back of the boards to enable him to mould the panel around the curve of the wall. He also needed to cut away a couple of grooves where the light switch was going to be fitted.

It took him most of the day, as he needed to be very careful with each of the panels not to cut through too deep. His final job for the day was to ensure all the little tacks he’d used to fix them with were tapped in sufficiently with a home-made centre punch.