Working on the House

We have been real busy (hence the lack of updates) working on the new house, and world headquarters of notinteresting.com of course. Here's some photos of the progress.

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	Well, buying a house is stressful. I was actually so stressed out I started having heart palpitations several times an hour, so here I am all wired up (still in the old apartment bedroom). I actually took this photo the morning that we closed.
	Going to the new house to do some work. It was so cold in there, it fogged up the lens of the camera.
	Getting less foggy. You can start to see the distasteful design of the place already.
	This old wallpaper and art had to go.
	Yuck.
	Nice chandalier though. After being cleaned, it became REAL nice.
	Yep.
	This wall was the pinnicle of the design atrocity. A fake brick wall in the dining room, with a mirror BUILT IN to the wall, featuring a nice painting of a matador on it! All I can say is WTF! What inspired his horror!
	Yuck is all I have to say.
	Well, we had an answer for that!
	Bam!
	Adam had this wall reinsulated in like 15 minutes.
	And about an hour later, drywalled and spackled first coat.
	Next weekend we all met up and did some painting.
	Mom cleaning the ceiling of the hallway.
	Doing a darn good job too!
	The place really became a work zone.
	I resized all the walls, the mortar was in poor shape underneath the wallpaper.
	The drywall tape job came along quite well.
	Work work, tools dust ahhh!
	We spent days sanding and taping.
	It was so tiring.
	The master bedroom as we found it. Well, we tore up the carpet right before taking this photo.
	Floor is not in bad shape, but we wanted carpet in our bedroom.
	Living room taped and primed.
	It was amazing the difference.
	The office being taken care of. Now known as the "Blue" room.
	Pretty blue, huh?
	The living room paint, called "Lion"
	Jaime being happy we are homeowners.
	Our bedroom trim painted white.
	Cut in.
	Blue room trim coming along nicely.
	I guess that's us!
	Bedroom paint done. Called "Restful"
	Painting the ceiling in the dining room.
	Turned out pretty white.
	Getting ready to do new carpet in the bedroom.
	Padded.
	Carpeted. This was my maiden carpeting experience. Turned out pretty good.
	The bedroom is now complete!
	And moving day. Now it's full of crap!
	The blue room full of crap.
	The den full of crap.
	The living room full of crap.
	The kitchen full of crap.
	Jaime, happy to be finally in our new home full of crap.
	Alex moved into the bed!
	Jaime being pretty stoked still.
	I finally came around.
	I put together the home theater a week or so after moving in. Jaime loves it almost as much as I do.
	Installing it...
	Alex checking up on things.
	Done! This is the view from the den.
	Alex also likes my computer desk.
	He decided it would be a good spot to chill out.
	I next put up the bookcase in the den.
	It doesen't match the wood, but will at least hold my books until next year when I can build the new and improved bookcase 3000!
	This pine tree is the one Pechette and I cut down.
	And the other tree to the right of the pine. You wouldn't believe how much of a mess this made. It took about 4 hours to clean up the tree carcass.
	The wire job. It's always been a dream of mine to wire the crap out of my future home. Well, now that we own this place, I didn't pull any punches. Scott Stevens most generously came over, gave me a hand, and about 3000 feet of cable to make my dream a reality.
	Things were a huge mess to begin with.
	There was just a huge disorganized mess.
	Installing the new backboard.
	Look at this crap!
	Forming in the bundle.
	Got things pretty much formed in, separate the LAN and the telephone.
	Bring the rack over.
	Form the telephone down into the 66 blocks.
	Get the LAN into the rack.
	Nice and parallel. I had a little bit of slack, and didn't want to cut it off... just in case.
	LAN cables terminated nicely in the rack.
	Tie Wraps cut, and telephone cables terminated.
	Install PBX and Voicemail.
	Continue the wiring.
	Run grounds, and power supplies etc.
	Hook up the lightning protection.
	Ground bar.
	Detail of some ground wires. That's it (for now!). -Garry

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