What home improvement work did you do today?

Got most of my kitchen floor done, just need to move a couple things back and grout the pantry. Then on to the dinning room floor.

 

Remodel has begun. Day 1, demo in the hall bathroom. Tub and tile surround is removed along with the vanity, countertop, mirror, medicine cabinets and flooring. Some before/after pics. Tomorrow will be removal of the toilet and start demoing the kitchen.

 

Satisfying to watch! Looks like you did good. I keep avoiding doing drywall work because I don't want to learn lol

 

You did that in 2 days??? Damn. Mad props

 

You can cover a multitude of sins with mud and texture haha. It honestly isn’t that bad or hard. A few rules to follow and it’s kinda therapeutic. Just watch a few YouTube videos. Although people that do drywall for a living are amazingly fast!

 

Had to put a new crown on the chimney. I had a mason come look at it to price out the crown and some other repointing. That was back in the spring when they said they would get me pricing and come do it. They never got back to me, so I wanted to get this done before winter, so I did it myself.

 

^ Thanks

 

Remodel Day 2: Finished removing what was left of the hall bath vanity and removed the toilet. Bathroom is completely gutted at this point. Started demo in the kitchen. My kitchen is a smaller galley style setup. Removed upper cabinets on one side. Other side has the uppers and loweres removed except for a pantry on the end. Plan is to cut the cabinet and keep the sink for use until next tuesday when the utility sink will be installed in the garage so that we are not without a sink too long. Some before/after shots of the kitchen. New cabinets were ordered about 3 weeks ago, but won't be ready til the end of this month.

 

Slowly coming along. Did the pavers yesterday. More digging and sifting today.

 

Installed a few Sonos in Palm Beach for a client!

 

You guys are all doing some cool stuff. I'm building a pretty simple desk. Of course, now that I'm close to being done I thought up so many ways I could have made it better. All good, I'm just learning and came up with this design myself.

Started with some 2x4's and a few 8x3/4 boards. Ripped the edges straight, ripped a bit of width off the 2x4s. Joined some boards for the sides and framed them with 2x4 legs which I stained thin white. Stained the side boards blue.

Tomorrow I need to join the boards for the top and stain that blue. I'm on the fence if I will round over the edges slightly on the top. Ergonomically it will be more comfortable but style says it might look odd. I have a top and bottom brace to run across the back as well, just haven't screwed it in yet.

 

What am I looking at?

 

I wondered the same thing.

 

18 Zones of Sonos Streaming Music Players for a big ass house in Florida!

https://www.sonos.com/en-us/shop/port.html

Each one can play something different if they want to or they can be grouped as needed too.

All are mounted in Custom Laser Cut Aluminum Rack Mounts along with 60 channels of Amplification for the Invisible Speakers that most play through in this place........of course.

https://www.sonance.com/in-wall-in-ceiling/invisible-series

There are 4 of them in this ceiling which is also Venetian Plaster Skimmed and features Plaster Moldings.

 

Now THAT'S the kind of detail we wanted

 

Got the toe kicks finished on the cabinets in our kitchen remodel. Now to get the crown finished, and do the exposed shelves.

 

Thats wild!

Our house was prewired for in ceiling speakers, but i have yet to install any. Any recommendations?

 

Honestly like most things you get mostly what you pay for and it depends on how good you want it to be.
In general if you care about the sound quality it is smart to buy speakers that are in an enclosure of some kind as only then can the sound from them be uniform and balanced and somewhat predictable in a ceiling mount.
Otherwise an open back speaker relies on the space it is in for its sonic character and this can give widely varied quality especially from speaker to speaker in each room.

In the entry level I really like the Beale Street Audio speakers as they are all enclosed and have tuned bass ports in all of them too.

This Forum just ate much of my reply somehow and I dont have time right now to do it over,sorry and WTF????

 

Dang, i hate it when that happens.
I'll look into those beale street speakers, i'm a best bang-for-the-buck kinda guy, but dont mind paying a little more for a better experience. Have you had good luck with being able to get a good sound positioning with the in-ceiling speakers? Seems like it wouldn't be bad to have in ceiling for the rears, but in the wall for the L&R (i dont think that's how the builder set it up).
Right now i'm using a bose cube speakers and a yamaha reciever and it sounds ok, but we have a open concept house and the living room and kitchen are one large space, so the couch floats in the middle. I have our rear speakers on each side of the couch but not very far behind. It would be nice to be able to have the speakers in the ceiling and point towards the couch.

 

Remodel day 4. Not too much happening today. The kitchen pantry has been removed and part of the soffit has been opened up in order to raise the ceiling height.

 

Wife spent an hour at ikea and picked up some antique Canadian built swivel chairs. All the sudden the house looks like ours

 

Remodel Day 5: Opened up more of the kitchen ceiling to remove the soffit and expose the ac ducting that needs to be relocated. That's it for now, more to come next week.

 

She found antique Canadian-built swivel chairs at IKEA?! Wow.

 

Painting and trimming the interior stairs.

 

There's my slippers!

I just put that same exact ceiling fan in my son's room last week.

 

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