House Projects

[Halon]

red in the head, fire in the hole!

[Goat Blower]

I suppose I can add something to this thread now. We sold our house and are in the process of moving to Champlin. We picked up a house from a flipper that did a crappy job, but put in a lot of nice items, like granite countertops, tons of tile work and all new carpet. The bad part is that they went cheap on a lot of things, and did a crappy job on others.

In the living room/kitchen area, they went open concept and removed some walls and cabinets. Unfortunately they just patched the popcorn ceiling and it looked like ass. Fortunately, I've been wanting to get rid of the popcorn anyway, so before we move our stuff in this weekend, I scraped all the popcorn, repaired the sheetrock underneath, and am filling in the previous light fixture holes for all recessed LED lighting. The ceiling will be knockdown with thick crown molding to follow this summer. Oh yeah, it's got a bigger 3-car garage then our old house and room for toys behind it. On to the starting pics.

[turbotalon1g]

Nice!!

[Halon]

Update.

Painting done. Walls are a deep crimson color, ceiling is a semi-dark tan.

In ceiling speakers are installed.

Projector is mounted (wiring to be cleaned up and the pass through gland for the signal cables still needs to be installed). Wife and I sat there for quite awhile today to figure out what size to set the screen to and we ended up leaving it at 106". Looks awesome, and right now it's just being projected onto the crimson wall lol. Can't wait to see what it'll look like once the screen is painted.

All electrical done (i.e. sconces installed, all outlets done, dimmer switches done). I must say I think we nailed it with the lighting, especially those sconces, they look phenominal.

I think that's about it for now. Tomorrow we will be painting the screen. Coat of primer, and then probably 2 coats of the Sherwin Williams paint I linked to earlier. Not sure what else he has planned for tomorrow, but here's what I see is left. Finish up low voltage stuff, install wood trim, build and install wood counter top (he said the bar top won't be done by super bowl unfortunately), carpet (scheduled for Friday), then basically just move all the components into the room and clean the shit out of everything because of all the dust that's been created.

Also we picked up a couple sweet power reclining seating from Dock 86 Saturday. It's going to be a tight fit for them to fit in the room, so we'll see. If they don't fit right, we have 7 days from delivery to return them. Hopefully they work out though! They will be delivered Saturday.

Pics!

[asshanson]

Looks amazing.

[jeremy1375]

Nice

[Speedfreak]

Looks really nice. Agreed, you nailed the lighting.

[Goat Blower]

Looks good B-man. Love those recliners, I need to find some of those as well.

[A//// Guy]

Looks great! That projector is a lot bigger in size than I thought it would be.

[JET]

Excellent job! I can't wait to check this out.