Mary placing plastic sheeting around the bar in the Great Room.

Mary placing plastic sheeting around the bar in the Great Room.

It's not a haze mat site... it's the Great Room!

Each spring at the inn we take on a series of projects. Sometimes they are maintenance. Sometimes they are pure improvements. Many times they are a combination of the two. A project we started this week falls into the combination category: refinishing the bar in the Great Room Lounge.

The bar in the Great Room has a pine top that has been stained and polyurethaned several times since it was built 12 winters ago. The pine boards have shrunk and separated over time, leaving a series of cracks the length of the bar top. This spring, one of the projects on Mary's list was to strip off the poly and restain/refinish the bar top. I talked Mary into adding to the project, by having all of the cracks in the bar top routed out and filled with different wood to create an inlaid effect. Frizzie, our chef, counts being a pretty good carpenter among his many skills. He took o the job of sanding the bar to bare wood, and adding in the inlaid parts.

Before work could begin, however, Mary and I needed to construct a tent around the bar to contain the dust created during the refinishing project. Using a series of wires strung from strategic ceiling points, it took us a couple of hours to get the plastic sheeting in place. I am sure that there will still be dust everywhere, but the tent should catch most of it.

Until the next time......