Long Time

We wrapped up a majority of the basement back in May. Finishing trim is about all that's left. And hey, you can live with unfinished trim. Besides when the lights are down and you're

watching a movie you can't see the trim anyway. Did I mention the movie screen is really big? And yessir you really do notice the sound comes from the screen and not off to the sides or bottom. Super happy that I did the in-wall speakers.




We're still adjusting to having all this extra room and storage, and I have to admit it is nice. Hey we even have the makings of library. Yes all the books have been in boxes for the last 5 years.





We went and carpeted the floor in the basement with wool. Oh so nice to walk on and hopefully warm in the winter, and made our selves a low maintenance floor of slate off the back door.

Built-in.......Part #2

So I made an early morning run to actual lumber yard and not a big box store. These guys have some great stuff. So walking out of there with a little less of my hard earned money, but happy that I didn't have to sort through piles of crap to find a few good boards and them having what I wanted is worth it. Since I constructed the built-in out of birch plywood, I figured just keep going with the birch theme for trimming it out. I'll get it stained up cherry to match some other wood work I've previously done in the basement. Overall, I'm pretty happy with how this turned out. Notice the yellow tools in the pictures. I especially like the little finish nailer.

Progress



Well after priming last week, I lazed around all week and basked in the "almost doneness" of the basement until about 6:15 this morning. At that time I decided I'd start putting the color up on the hallway. We went with the classic, and neutral, taupe. Much like the beige that so many of us cube denizens have become desensitized to, but just edgy enough to be something different and therefore nothing like beige. Besides it's a color we have elsewhere in the house and ties the other colors together nicely and it isn't white. In addition to the painting, I also put up the wall sconces in the hallway, which match those in the "man room", which is also almost done, just starting in on the built-ins thanks to my friend over at OldStoneHouse sending me something to cut wood with. We wanted to go with movie house/deco style for the sconces and found these lights at a showroom in Seattle. This outfit definitely had items that you would not normally find at your big box and their prices were great. So here are some pics of the setup including the 100 inch screen. Very nice to watch movies on!

Test run

The projector mount I ordered from Amazon showed up today. It is a stout unit by Peerless and lets you adjust the pitch, roll and yaw by screws so it won't move around over time. All told maybe 10 minutes to get up and running. And simple. I like that. The test run was with HDMI feed to get the overall screen size and in-wall speaker placement. Right now I'm throwing an image 7 feet by 4 feet. I'll be ordering the screen material now that I have the final dimensions and the missus said "woo hoo!" when she saw it. Here's some eye candy of the setup. Note the rectangle on the picture is the template for the in-wall speakers.

And if you haven't seen some of the devestation out here in Washington check out these pics courtesy of SeattlePI of the Chehalis area and the I-5 closure. Some really powerful stuff.