Those who know me and how things normally work for me know that things snowball. Well this last project was NOT MY FAULT it was the wife's fault. I had some scrap wooden shipping crates that had a really cool industrial look for half-wall paneling had fragile, this end up, center of gravity and other markings on it. I put it up and the wife hated it and every decision I made in the basement for a workbench. End result is the 2 half-walls snowballed into enclosing the room with sheetrock mudded and taped wood floating floor and eventual dropped ceiling.
I was just putting the wood up to go behind the workbench for reloading equipment and that craft/school project stuff that comes up. So I am predicting that the reloading equipment may get moved out to the shed anyway. I wanted to do it in the basement so I didn't need to heat up the shed just to sit and reload.
Dan Williams said
Mar 29, 2014
We won't even go to the snowball on my 65. One of my friends gave me a old industrial 5 gallon flush toilet. Seemingly harmless enough, $25K later, we have the Taj Mahal of bathrooms , all new bedroom with egress windows now in our basement. As most of you know, I don't do steps and have never seen this room etc. I haven't been downstairs in 12 years.
Derek69SS said
Mar 29, 2014
I know not of this "snowball" you speak of.
(says the guy who is doing an LSX/T56 swap because his quarter panel got dinged)
Did I mention I do not do carpentry work and the few times I have had to sand sheetrock I have hated it. Oh and as for having kids that are supposed to help entire room was sanded by them in under 45 minutes. Now do I go over all of the sanding myself, have the wife sand it with me, or send the boys back down there to sand it again. Just out of spite I may have the garage mudded and tapped this summer and make them sand in the heat and humidity. You know finish it off to add value to the home complete with pull down stairs, insulation in the ceiling, better lights, hanging electric heater and painted floor.
Tony Hoffer said
May 2, 2014
After Years of scheming and almost giving up.. I might be actually putting the Astre together as a commuter car. Of course this would mean the Chevelle and the snowmobiles are still on the back burner....
Dave Seitz said
May 21, 2014
Well getting closer to finishing it and it is turning into a spot that will be to nice for me to use most likely. The pic on the doorway is to show a wall that was not there I built to kind of finish off the room. I found some melamine shelves on Craigslist for $5.00 each and those are being biscuit jointed together with one wall getting it trimmed down for less width to make wife happy. Note on one of the pics is a light bulb, that is what is inside an LED light bulb that got dropped by accident and broke the glass housing. Those things are 9watts and brighter then you can imagine, I did have a CFL on the other side of the duct and found out how bad the CFLs really are.
Those who know me and how things normally work for me know that things snowball. Well this last project was NOT MY FAULT it was the wife's fault. I had some scrap wooden shipping crates that had a really cool industrial look for half-wall paneling had fragile, this end up, center of gravity and other markings on it. I put it up and the wife hated it and every decision I made in the basement for a workbench. End result is the 2 half-walls snowballed into enclosing the room with sheetrock mudded and taped wood floating floor and eventual dropped ceiling.
I was just putting the wood up to go behind the workbench for reloading equipment and that craft/school project stuff that comes up. So I am predicting that the reloading equipment may get moved out to the shed anyway.
I wanted to do it in the basement so I didn't need to heat up the shed just to sit and reload.
We won't even go to the snowball on my 65.
One of my friends gave me a old industrial 5 gallon flush toilet. Seemingly harmless enough, $25K later, we have the Taj Mahal of bathrooms , all new bedroom with egress windows now in our basement. As most of you know, I don't do steps and have never seen this room etc. I haven't been downstairs in 12 years. 
(says the guy who is doing an LSX/T56 swap because his quarter panel got dinged)
Well getting closer to finishing it and it is turning into a spot that will be to nice for me to use most likely. The pic on the doorway is to show a wall that was not there I built to kind of finish off the room. I found some melamine shelves on Craigslist for $5.00 each and those are being biscuit jointed together with one wall getting it trimmed down for less width to make wife happy. Note on one of the pics is a light
bulb, that is what is inside an LED light bulb that got dropped by accident and broke the glass housing. Those things are 9watts and brighter then you can imagine, I did have a CFL on the other side of the duct and found out how bad the CFLs really are.