The long, drawn-out saga of the studio building has taken longer to write about than the actual work took to complete! Past posts detailed the saga which started with a small flood due to the PO’s stupid plumbing ideas, then discovering they liked to hire shoddy contractors who thought installing windows meant you didn’t need actual window frames, then sorting through some of the stuff in the building and find new owners for some of it, then eventually picking out new flooring materials that our contractor installed both upstairs and downstairs. Then there were the craptastic speakers in the walls and shoddy swing door that we removed. It seemed the list was never-ending.
So–moving onward to finish the story–once the floors were done, I spent a few hours putting in a line of caulk between the new baseboards and tile.
Then there was the lighting in the room. We found our new lights on sale at Lampsplus.com–super simple square sconces to advance the cube motif I planned for the space.
The old lights were really, really ugly. See below if you dare. I managed to find a buyer for them via Craigslist and they went off to illuminate a small church.
Then there was tracking-in stuff from the outside when going in or out of the building. Thanks to Amazon, I found a fake grass rug that quite nicely manages to keep any leaves or other debris at the doorway. Another online find: a pretty yellow rug for the downstairs area. Slowly the space was coming together.
This all occurred after the space was painted and blinds installed, but that will get covered in the next post.