Workshop Removed

Needed to get the old workshop cleaned out with the eventual plan to finish the space. This will bring the total square footage of the house to about 3,000. Here is what it looked like before:

And now

I've set it up temporarily as an audio room, but this is mainly just to have a place to put the speakers and other stuff to get them out of the way. Plan is to leave it as is while I finish the upstairs.

This is also an exercise to force me to use the garage as the shop, rather than the basement. Goal is to see how workable that is. This also gets all of the "dirty" stuff out of the house and into the garage where it belongs.

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Craigslist Find

I'm still using a lot of old Ikea Expedit stuff for storage. It works, and is flexible, but not fancy. Been on the lookout for something better. Ran across this on CL for only $300, and got them to deliver. Right now it's just staged in the open area of the basement. I should be able to finish the framing and drywall in the old theater, and I'll move these in there.

Paint

Had to get a coat of paint on before the rains hit. Not completely sold on the blue trim, may due a dark brown or grey there instead, but a huge improvement over what it was. Right now I only have one coat on, and haven't done the edging right, so it's a rough paint job, but it will tide the house over until I get a patch of good weather and can finish the job.

Patio Demo

Wanted to get a good exposure to the foundation so I could verify the seal (think I found a leak in the planter box where the foundation meets), so I decided to tackle getting the rear concrete pad broken up. Quotes to do the job were in the $5k range, so I decided I'd break it up and move it myself. Removal then is only $650. Rented a breaker from HomeDepot. Took about 6-7hrs of work, and a lot of Ibuprofin. Went from this: To this: I am planning on taking at least a week of picking at it to move everything.

Normandy Park Restoration

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