New pictures! They're also in the sidebar as "June 2005." Check out Memorial Day 2005 if you haven't already, too.
So here's the status: The big room is almost done. The crown molding is up and looks pretty great, if I do say so myself - thanks to Josh Apple for the help installing and Guy Strauss for lending the miter saw.
Track lights are up, too, which was fairly easy except for the big hole and damaged drywall left by the prior fixtures. Nothing a little drywall patch and some joint compound couldn't solve, though. Track lights are very easy and make everything look classier, somehow.
We put the compressed fiberglass board back up in the corners and on the ceiling corners (thanks to Amy for the extra hands). The burlap doesn't seem to stretch quite as tight or adhere quite as well the second time I put it up, which isn't a surprise, I guess. I'll need to figure that out eventually, but it's just a cosmetic thing...though the rest of the room looked so good before that it's actually kind of an issue. I'll figure it out.
I'm also carving out part of the front left corner of the room to hold the computer. (there used to be fiberglass there.) This will both get the machine out of the way and quiet it down - I'll cover the front of the box with a removable panel (fiberglass mounted on MDF) - covered to quiet it, but removable so that I can get to the CD drive, etc. As far as cooling the machine, you can barely see it in the June 2005 pictures, but there's a hole that goes in between the rooms that will serve as a conduit for both cables and hot air, thanks to a small, quiet fan that's going in the small room. Hopefully it will work.
Small room still needs the parquet floor, but I need to finish prepping the slab that's there, which is a bit uneven around the edges. I've patched the gap between the slab and the wall footing and repaired some other divets left by the removal of the carpet tackstrips (thanks, Jill and Rhett, for pulling nails out of concrete). Hopefully it'll be dry and ready to go by next weekend...?
Anyway, we're almost done with this round. It felt pretty great to bring the instruments back into the studio - both because the time when I can use the studio again is drawing near, and because it got the things out of the damn living room!
So here's the status: The big room is almost done. The crown molding is up and looks pretty great, if I do say so myself - thanks to Josh Apple for the help installing and Guy Strauss for lending the miter saw.
Track lights are up, too, which was fairly easy except for the big hole and damaged drywall left by the prior fixtures. Nothing a little drywall patch and some joint compound couldn't solve, though. Track lights are very easy and make everything look classier, somehow.
We put the compressed fiberglass board back up in the corners and on the ceiling corners (thanks to Amy for the extra hands). The burlap doesn't seem to stretch quite as tight or adhere quite as well the second time I put it up, which isn't a surprise, I guess. I'll need to figure that out eventually, but it's just a cosmetic thing...though the rest of the room looked so good before that it's actually kind of an issue. I'll figure it out.
I'm also carving out part of the front left corner of the room to hold the computer. (there used to be fiberglass there.) This will both get the machine out of the way and quiet it down - I'll cover the front of the box with a removable panel (fiberglass mounted on MDF) - covered to quiet it, but removable so that I can get to the CD drive, etc. As far as cooling the machine, you can barely see it in the June 2005 pictures, but there's a hole that goes in between the rooms that will serve as a conduit for both cables and hot air, thanks to a small, quiet fan that's going in the small room. Hopefully it will work.
Small room still needs the parquet floor, but I need to finish prepping the slab that's there, which is a bit uneven around the edges. I've patched the gap between the slab and the wall footing and repaired some other divets left by the removal of the carpet tackstrips (thanks, Jill and Rhett, for pulling nails out of concrete). Hopefully it'll be dry and ready to go by next weekend...?
Anyway, we're almost done with this round. It felt pretty great to bring the instruments back into the studio - both because the time when I can use the studio again is drawing near, and because it got the things out of the damn living room!
