Remodeling the Nuclear Room

[Twitchin Kitten]

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Thanks. ya weirdo

[CrackAttack]

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Did you finish this? It's been a few months since you posted the before pics. I feel like that last chapter of the book is missing...

(At first I thought the blue walls w/glue was the "after" pic. I was convinced for a minute that you were a complete free thinker.)

I have to admit I have a bedroom in my otherwise subdued home painted almost that exact same shade of green. The paint was called "Atomic Vomit". I am thinking of repainting it yellow, but I haven't started yet. I can do a quick paint job, but the primer step is a PITA and I'm sure vomit trumps butter yellow.

[Twitchin Kitten]

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The vomit does trump the yellow. It trumps nearly everything thats why we pulled that hideous wall board off to begin with.

We got some sheetrock up and today we're actually going to do some work in the room. We have been stalling because as usual, the one person we need to mud and tape the room has been avoiding us like the plague all winter. I gave up and I'll be taping and mudding the sheetrock when we're done nailing it up.

I always wind up doing the man work around here for some reason.
Today Matt's going to do some custom rewiring for the computers and we have a slab of formica to make the desk.
Under the window we're going to make a desk that goes wall to wall for the computers and the put shelving on each side and above the window for our dual workstation. Matt's good at making counter tops from scratch so this will be good.

We plan on a shelf half way up on the window too for the cats. Since they're ALWAYS sleeping on me or next to me on the desk, I know they'll enjoy a window perch above me. It'll keep their hair out of my printer and scanner too!

[CrackAttack]

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Make sure you do thin layers of mud or you'll be sanding your azz off.

I can't wait for pics. What color are you going to paint?

I felt bad for asking, but I'm a slack ass unless someone calls me on it. I am the queen of almost finished. I need to repaint baseboards, but have convinced myself I am going to put in fake wood flooring. Maybe I'll get inspired if you finish.

[Twitchin Kitten]

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It's going to be white and I'm not sure what color the woodwork is going to be. I want a carpet on the floor too. I don't want to refinish the wood floor there. Been there, done that and don't want to do it again! Cover it with carpet.

[CrackAttack]

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Well?

Don't carpet it! Wood floors are so cool and so much easier to keep up with. Have you thought of maybe painting it? I've seen some neat ones in older houses downtown.

[CrackAttack]

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Yay! An Easter Egg!

[Twitchin Kitten]

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Well?

Don't carpet it! Wood floors are so cool and so much easier to keep up with. Have you thought of maybe painting it? I've seen some neat ones in older houses downtown.

I thought of painting it but really thin carpet will be best. The office chairs with the wheels will be brutal on the pained floor. I'd have to do a very high lacquer finish and that's really hard to do. All that work only to be ruined by wheeled chairs would be a shame.

Carpet is best for my feet too. Where the window is the wall overhangs the foundation by nearly 3 feet and it can get cold on that spot on the floor.

We ran into a slowdown on putting up the sheetrock. I decided that I wanted the heating vent moved so we need to do more hole cutting and rerouting of pipes and what not before we throw up the rest of the sheetrock. Plus he only has weekends to work on this when he's not doing side jobs.

[CrackAttack]

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That's the deal with remodeling: You can't just fix *one* thing. It snowballs. Like cleaning out one cupboard. The greatest luxury is paying someone else to do it for you.

[Twitchin Kitten]

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Yeah but then I'll notice all the things they try to cheat on!

Wait till he hears my next project for the living room. it involves gutting a supporting wall and turning it into a bookcase / nick nack shelf while keeping it a supporting wall.