Day 22 - Every Little Thing...

Well, we have nearly come to the end of the
Custom Home Improvement portion of this project.
These pictures give you an idea of where we are
and we'll explain some of the things that
Justin's folks still have to address.
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Let's head on down the stairs - this really looks nice.
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This is so very different from what we started out with!
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This is the theatre - the unusal "things" near the base of the
wall are cables and connections for Tweeter's work
which starts on Monday, February 13th.
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This just looks amazing.
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We are in the studio - the equipment rack is here.
If you look back into the theatre, you can get a
glimpse of the lighting that runs under the lip of the step
or the elevated area for the second row of theatre seating.
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Same room from another angle.

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The studio really looks nice and Dave is very anxious
to start moving things in!
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Again, a look at the lights under the step.
Custom had some major corrections
to make as far as this installation.
Also, it is hard to see but they need to make
a repair to the wall on the left.
There is a slight gap between the baseboard and the
wall so light shines through. This needs to be sealed.
We also have an intermitent problem with a light.
What is nice about Custom Home Improvement is their
TWO YEAR WARRANTY!
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Same view but the lights are dimmed.
This does give you:
A) A better feel for the color.
B) A better look at the lights.
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You are unable to see the other problem in the room from any
of these angles. They had to touch up damage caused by the
carpet installers along the baseboards and on the doors.
Baseboards and doors have a semigloss paint.
They also adjusted the level of some of the outlets so that required
them to touch up the wall paint...the FLAT wall paint...
which they touched up with SEMIGLOSS!
So, it looks like they have to sand off the gloss and then
repaint the wall. We are now on a tight timeframe since
Tweeter is here on Monday and the wall
has to be painted before the speakers are installed.
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This is gorgeous! It is small but we are so happy to be able to
have a powder room in the basement. And wait until
you see the really great "extra" toilet paper storage
Dave found. It may be one of his favorite features.
By the way, one quick, funny story!
While in the basement looking over the workmanship,
Barb had to go to the bathroom. She ran upstairs and
went into the first floor powder room just as she
remembered that she had walked past a bathroom downstairs!
Guess we all have to get used to this new convenience!
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One last look into the theatre!
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Okay, now the last look into the theatre!
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There are a couple additional problems.
A) Repair to the carpet on the edge of the stairs
and a small snag in front of the powder room.
B) The light in the large storage area off the
theatre is "hanging by a thread."
In order to correct the installation of the rope lights
under the step in the theatre, they had to install
another outlet box in the storage area. They
disconnected the light and forgot to reconnect.

So, we are relying on Custom Home Improvements
to make all the final adjustments by Monday when
it is Tweeter's turn to dig into this project.
All in all, they did a pretty amazing job.

Theoretically, the next pictures you see
here will be the Tweeter installation process.
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