1950-60's Suburban House Fixin'

[Hirsch]

Beams go perpendicular to the duct?

Yes, it's only like that in that room and the garage, the ducts that feed the 3 bedrooms upstairs.

[Hirsch]

Primed and ready for paint.







I ran out of tinted primer and had to use untinted for part of a wall and the stairwell. I've got 50ft of primed baseboard ready to go down, I'm picking up a friends miter saw tomorrow to cut them. If all goes well I'll be done tomorrow. Next step is a trip to IKEA for an entertainment center.

[Shazam]

I suggest not getting the LACK from IKEA. It's just too low for a TV. At first you just find it weird, but after watching a movie you get a bit of a crick in your neck. I did find online if you get two of them, you can stack two of them (with a tad bit of wood working). Maybe when I've got another $100 burning a hole in my pocket I'll pick on up, but the closest IKEA is over an hour and a half away.

[Hirsch]

That´s a good job!. I am used to brick walls around here, so quite a different way of doing things.

Yeah, European construction is much more solid. My house has a brick exterior with a little bit of vinyl siding on the front. But the interior walls are lath board nailed to 2x4 studs set 16in on-center, then coated with some kind of topping compound. The rowhouse I lived in in downtown Cincinnati before we moved to Denmark had 9 inch thick brick exterior walls and 18 inch think walls between the houses.

My sister in laws house in Denmark has walls made of solid concrete. Our place in Denmark was older and it had brick interior walls.

[Hirsch]

I suggest not getting the LACK from IKEA. It's just too low for a TV. At first you just find it weird, but after watching a movie you get a bit of a crick in your neck. I did find online if you get two of them, you can stack two of them (with a tad bit of wood working). Maybe when I've got another $100 burning a hole in my pocket I'll pick on up, but the closest IKEA is over an hour and a half away.

I think my wife has something picked out. Plus it's in the kids playroom and the couch down there is a European sized sectional. It's a little narrower and not as tall as an American sized couch. We got a IKEA about 3 years ago, before that the closet one was in Chicago.

[Hirsch]

Minor touch-up painting aside, the room is done. We'll have the furniture back in it tomorrow and we need to make a trip to IKEA for a new entertainment center, but it's done.

For my first attempt at hanging drywall, I'm very happy with how it turned out.

[Hirsch]

Minor things aside(hanging blinds, etc), I'm done.

[Shazam]

Looks great!

[nordwulf]

Wow, that's quite a change. Are you allowed to use it or is it a hangout place only for the women in your home??

[Hirsch]

It's supposed to be a playroom for my kids, to keep the toys from being scattered all over the house. My wife's desktop is down there, too.

I've got a man cave in the basement. Concrete floor, cheap couch, 26in Insignia flat screen with surround.