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After several months of looking at nothing but studs, I finally have a fully enclosed Laundry room.
Finished up some plumbing and wiring and had the inspectors out on Friday to approve it and allow me to start covering up the walls.  In the process I also solved the wiring issue with the kitchen lights, as I have a track light extending straight from the laundry wall to a full-length track lighting system for the kitchen.  I need to do some finish work on the wiring from track to track, but that's a formality at this point.  This means I won't have any ugly connection box or box cover on the track system, so it will look nice and tidy.

Also, got the lighting for the 1/2 bath done.  Obviously needs some finish work, but much better than the wall-wart lighting it had before.  I might consider doing something like this in the bedrooms at some later date too.

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