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The basement 'drum room' prior to any cleaning or construction
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What a mess!
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A lot of junk in this room!
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I better get cleaning...
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The wood ready for framing
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The room cleaned out and ready for construction
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The strange heating duct in the corner of the room
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The room had a work bench in it
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The wall studs are up after 1 day! - Feb 6, 2012
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Walls are up!
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Solid framing
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The interior wall of the room
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Day 1 of framing complete
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The room looks a lot bigger without all the crap in it
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Andy by the closet in the new basement office
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The closet is taking shape
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Day 2 of framing included the closet and the soffit around the duct work
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The duct work starting to be concealed
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Alex checks out the construction
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Father and son enjoy some time in the new office
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The framing is complete after 2 days
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The can lights are installed - Feb 10, 2012
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An outlet in the closet that can power by ethernet switch
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Let there be light!
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The guys installed the lights and wiring in a few hours
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A four gang box for four light switches
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Charlotte likes to help out!
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Andy drills for some speaker, phone and ethernet wires
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The van filled with insulation
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Nothing goes together like donuts and insulation!
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Andy with his ethernet wires
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speaker wires, HDMI and cable come in here
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It looks like enough to do a whole house - only enough for a 12x16 room
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measuring the first piece of insulation
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I start to itch just looking at this
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This will become the hub for all ethernet wires in the house
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R-19 for the ceiling was thick stuff
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I stuffed the ceiling with insulation for sound and temperature control
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The room with insulation on the walls and ceiling
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This insulation filled the space nicely
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Lots of wires running through the rafters
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The room is ready for drywall
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The insulation was one part of the room that I did myself
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This corner is where my desk will go
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Those are some long sheets of drywall (12 footers)
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Some more drywall placed in the room and ready to hang
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Some smaller drywall sheets ready for hanging tomorrow
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Our carpenter extended the duct work because of the closet
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A side view of the extended duct work
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These wires are out of control!
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Mar 2, 2012 - drywall is hung and mudded!
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The speaker wires punched through the drywall
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Amazing how fast the guys work to get this all done in a day
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The wires punched through the drywall
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It is really starting to look like a room now
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We went with a textured ceiling - it came out very nice
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One last look before painting
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Daddy's helpers ready to prime the walls!
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The drywall ready for some paint
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Char wanted to help paint on her birthday!
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Sarah putting white Kilz on the walls
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I think you kind of missed some spots, girls
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Andy finished the painting after the girls got bored
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An empty canvas ready for some color
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The can lights complete with trim
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The expert at 'cutting in'!
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One wall painted
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These cool wall plates make this mess of wires look alright
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This looks like the wall is throwing up wires
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Andy sanding the trim before painting
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The closet door is hung and ready for some paint
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The window frame needed some spray painting
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hey, I wanted to make sure no paint got on the ceiling or walls!
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The window frame with a coat of spray paint primer
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The closet door needed to be trimmed because it is a short opening
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Our carpenter Jeff extended the door jam nicely
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A lot of switches for a small room!
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The green accent wall came out nice
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Painting the door white
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The office with everything painted
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The office - Mar 22, 2012
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Another green accent wall on the outside of the closet
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The wire going into the closet was a temporary hookup for the cable modem
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The future site of my desk
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The red floor is a nice touch
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We put a closet organizer up as well from left overs of another set
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A classy van representing the company well
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The carpet is installed - Mar 27, 2012
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It took the guys an hour or less to put the carpet in
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The room is looking nice with the carpet
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Deanna helping build my IKEA desk
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The assembled frame of the desk
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We got several pieces of the desk on clearance due to our exploring the return section at IKEA
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My desk is in place!
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The office upstairs before taking a lot of this downstairs
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Getting all of these monitors and computers out of here will give this office a cleaner look
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The room is staring to take shape
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The computers are all hooked up
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I got these at IKEA as well
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We installed the track lights on 3/31/12
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These are the lights I turn on most of the time - add just enough light
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