Wednesday, January 19, 2011

The Green Room, Part 2

So when I left you we had a giant pile of mess down in the ex-Green Room. We cleaned that all up, and now we have a giant stack of drywall in the garage, and for a while Scott couldn't fit the Mustang in the garage so it had to be in the driveway, so in the cold mornings it wasn't happy and refused to start, so I've been driving Scott to work sometimes.

Anyway.

Once we got everything stripped to the studs we had to do some electrical work. Ok, a LOT of electrical work. Before there had been only one (ugly) light in the ceiling, and we kinda have a thing for can lights, so we wanted to install some in this room. We bought six, but when we were deciding where to put them we decided to just do four (which turned out to be plenty bright), so we have two for when we finish the basement. We had to do some fancy wiring, because we have two on one switch and two on another switch, so there are three ways to light the room, and you can have less light or more light for whatever you're doing.

Here's Scott working on the switches:


At one point while Scott was sorting out all the electrical weirdness that was already in the walls, we came across a bundle of wiring that was for...? It was a giant bundle, and we couldn't tell where it led or what it was for, so we had to turn off all the breakers for the entire house to work on them safely, so Scott had to work by flashlight for a little while:


Here's a shot of one of the can lights:


Obviously, it will look nice when it's finished. The four are in a perfectly symmetrical grid that fits perfectly in the center of the room. We love this.

Remember that giant mess of wires we found in the wall that had been taped together? Fixed!


So here are a few shots for a view of the room all ready for insulation and drywall:


Note the Buster sighting.


Here's when we started to get the insulation put back in:


Note the Buster tail sighting.

3 comments:

  1. Looking awsome. What's up with the part by the stairs that you can see stuff through? Also, did you consider taking out that partial wall that is part of the wall of the stairway?

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  2. Well the wall next to the stairs needs to stay because that is where the switches are and the stairs come down into the room now and we don't want exposed stairs. As for the part where you can see stuff, that is just the shelves in the basement where the top of the wall meets the room half way up ... then you can see the floor joist and then the kitchen wall.(split level)

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