...And now for a change of venue.
Yes, I was supposed to be working on the bathroom. However, I am having diffculty locating the desired plumbing fixtures--I can find them, I just can't seem to actually purchase them for some reason. Anyway since I don't have these items, and I generally like having the major items in hand before starting a project--it cuts down on scope creep and seems to make things go faster--I changed my mind and started on the basement bedroom. Of course I was prodded along a little on this too.

I got a new tool last week from Donut--many thanks my friend--and just had to try it out. So I started framing in the walls of the bedroom. Now these walls sit atop the footing and against the basement wall. I'll be insulating them after I get all the wiring done. Besides this was good practice for when I get to framing on the media room. Additionally I installed and wired the can lights in the ceiling as well as insulating the ceiling. Now I just need to run power to everything.

The pics show 3 of the walls. The one on the left is going to have a secret door that will allow access to our large crawler and storage area. The one on the right I intend to strip the paint off the brick if I can figure out a way to do so without breathing a lot of toxic fumes or spreading lead dust through the house. Any thoughts on products I could use would be much appreciated for accomplishing this task. I already tried grinding it off with good results until I realized I was probably dealing with lead paint.


So I got all this done and snow shoed here this weekend. The snow is epic out here!