Daryl Jones
non-practicing pacifist
Well, much was gained over the weekend on my "man/music cave" downstairs. The transformation from hobby/project space was far more tedious than I originally surmised. Something about 20 or so years of changing attitudes and ideas and the accumulation of em, crap certainly slows down conversion processes. It's amazing just how much "stuff" you can ignore for a long period of time. But, gone is most of the clutter, and there is now room to bring in my instruments and amps and associated wares. This is a "mine only" room, not intended to host other players to jam with, I have the remaining open basement space should there ever be a gathering of my friends that want to play inside at our place.
I left my hobby workbench in the room as a table top to keep miscellaneous small stuff, and more of an organized space for accessories. That will still need to improve with time anyway but will be much less of a dog's breakfast than it was upstairs. I left a couple of my storage wall cabinets up as well, and my gun cabinet will remain along with my white tail deer mount. For some reason the missus won't have the critter on display anywhere else in the house
confused.
I still will have to deal with better electrical and lighting but that will require some professional assistance; reno's are always more a voyage of discovery and shortfalls than a ground up build. My main panel is just next door, but it's over 30 years old so I won't get carried away with running extra feeds until such time as I upgrade the panel to a current updated code type. So for now I'll make due with a couple power bars and maybe an additional floor lamp. I have some acoustic foam panels ordered for the walls and I'll likely add more in the future to better control the "noise" factor. The walls and ceiling are textured and insulated so it should be pretty decent for that anyway.
I'll be moving the guitars and amps and other items after work tonight so will take some pictures of the current state of affairs once that's done. I'm kind of glad that I didn't take any "before" shots, let's just suffice to say it was horrible. Thus far, at least herself is more than pleased. That and the fact that the spare bedroom will once again be a guest room LOL. Kind of a win win thing. Stay tuned for a few pics tomorrow.
I left my hobby workbench in the room as a table top to keep miscellaneous small stuff, and more of an organized space for accessories. That will still need to improve with time anyway but will be much less of a dog's breakfast than it was upstairs. I left a couple of my storage wall cabinets up as well, and my gun cabinet will remain along with my white tail deer mount. For some reason the missus won't have the critter on display anywhere else in the house
confused.I still will have to deal with better electrical and lighting but that will require some professional assistance; reno's are always more a voyage of discovery and shortfalls than a ground up build. My main panel is just next door, but it's over 30 years old so I won't get carried away with running extra feeds until such time as I upgrade the panel to a current updated code type. So for now I'll make due with a couple power bars and maybe an additional floor lamp. I have some acoustic foam panels ordered for the walls and I'll likely add more in the future to better control the "noise" factor. The walls and ceiling are textured and insulated so it should be pretty decent for that anyway.
I'll be moving the guitars and amps and other items after work tonight so will take some pictures of the current state of affairs once that's done. I'm kind of glad that I didn't take any "before" shots, let's just suffice to say it was horrible. Thus far, at least herself is more than pleased. That and the fact that the spare bedroom will once again be a guest room LOL. Kind of a win win thing. Stay tuned for a few pics tomorrow.
