{"id":283,"date":"2011-02-22T19:36:29","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T01:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/junkwood.info\/?p=283"},"modified":"2020-01-13T20:10:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T02:10:05","slug":"planning-the-key-to-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/junkwood.info\/?p=283","title":{"rendered":"Planning &#8211; the Key to Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know you&#8217;ll probably consider this a little backwards, but I thought I&#8217;d show the planning for the hole in the wall for some of my most recent posts after the project is done. \u00a0\u00a0 Planning for projects is a must&#8230; even if at the expense of spontaneity.\u00a0 Even something as simple as cutting out the hole in the wall can benefit from having a good, detailed plan.\u00a0 I had put in a bit of effort in re-creating the environment in Sketchup, mainly for two reasons.\u00a0 The first was to get an idea of the proportions of the opening to make sure it &#8220;felt&#8221; right.\u00a0 The second reason was to identify where the studs were in the wall and to consider how we could frame it in.\u00a0 I think the <a title=\"Completed hole and shelf\" href=\"http:\/\/junkwood.info\/?p=280\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">actual result<\/a> ended up pretty much as planned!\u00a0 Here&#8217;s some pictures exported from the Sketchup program.<\/p>\n<p>Hole Size and measurements of the wall, studs and cabinets &#8211; viewpoint from the kitchen:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_284\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\".\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Punch_Through_Window3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-284\" class=\"wp-image-284 size-medium\" title=\"Hole in the Wall from the Kitchen's Perspective\" src=\"https:\/\/junkwood.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Punch_Through_Window3-300x167.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/junkwood.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Punch_Through_Window3-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/junkwood.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Punch_Through_Window3-1024x572.png 1024w, https:\/\/junkwood.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Punch_Through_Window3.png 1374w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-284\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I ended up sending the picture to my mother prior to my brother and I beginning the work. I thought it was interesting that she felt the woman included in the rendering confused her and made it difficult to see how it would end up. Maybe it was because I had the wall somewhat transparent&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the hole from the living room side &#8211; a lot more boring looking&#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_285\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\".\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Punch_Through_Window4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-285\" class=\"wp-image-285 size-medium\" title=\"Hole in the wall from the Living Room side\" src=\"https:\/\/junkwood.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Punch_Through_Window4-300x167.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/junkwood.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Punch_Through_Window4-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/junkwood.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Punch_Through_Window4-1024x572.png 1024w, https:\/\/junkwood.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Punch_Through_Window4.png 1374w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-285\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I suppose I could have tried to layout the walls for both the kitchen and living room, but I really just wanted to focus on the area where the work was going to happen and the size of the cabinets.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I always like to print out hard copies of the sketches to have on hand to reference and make notes on when I&#8217;m working.<\/p>\n<p>Even though it is a &#8220;tool&#8221; to help with all these projects,\u00a0 I still just can&#8217;t bring myself to use my laptop in the garage where things like paint, sawdust, dirt and oils seem to get on everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know you&#8217;ll probably consider this a little backwards, but I thought I&#8217;d show the planning for the hole in the wall for some of my most recent posts after the project is done. \u00a0\u00a0 Planning for projects is a must&#8230; even if at the expense of spontaneity.\u00a0 Even something as simple as cutting out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkwood.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkwood.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkwood.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkwood.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkwood.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/junkwood.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513,"href":"https:\/\/junkwood.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/junkwood.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkwood.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junkwood.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}