Just to recap the past….week? I don’t even know, i’ve lost track of time. So they shoot a lot of commercials inside really nice houses ranging from McMansions to really nice, properly restored houses. Anyways, there’s this one house in dc where i noticed the owner had made recessed shelves made just out of drywall and wood so i extrapolated the idea to a full floor. This is the first section. I wanted a closet in the front, and i knew i wanted to cover up the radiators cause apparently that can make them more efficient. Then I was all like “shit yeah i can just build a cubbied window and sit my huge cactus on it during the winter” The cactus has since died. Theres a hole sawed out in the side wall to run the cable down from the air conditioner in the summer. The shelf over the radiator is for the cats to chill on since it’ll be heated in the winter, in front of the a/c in the summer and they get somewhere to be near a window instead of just destroying shit to get to it. The closet has a shelf in it that has an outlet up there so i can charge camera/flash batteries and then its AT THE DOOR. I ripped the whole ceiling out a year and a half ago so its about 9’ total which enabled me to put a lot at the top of the whole thing to store equipment and gear/records/etc. Now i just need another week or so to spackle/sand and screaming like, a shitload of obscenities. I really dont remember when i started on this again but lemme say i started watching battlestar galactica again from the beginning and i just finished the 3rd season.
Alright I guess 10 hours of electrical work, cutting, screwing, chiseling, flushing, drillling, more screwing, framing, drywalling is enough for one day…I guess. The amount of work does not correlate to me building anything huge and crazy; just tedious and precise, and done right (about 3 times over).
This is what happens when you run 21 wires through your house and find out it’s about 2’ too short to hide behind the crown moulding to be installed in the ceiling. Had to label them, snip them, connect them in a box to a 2’ piece of wire then run that wire into another box and….yeah so its done. Gotta start spackling the inside of this closet.
