I wanted to put up some pictures that are more representative of the colors in my basement. I tried to grab shots from the manufacturers to make them as accurate as possible. However in many cases they are quite small. Also the color totally depends on lighting. It should give people an idea though.
Chairs - Berkline Group 3 Fabric Pattern 3133-97
Wall Fabric - Robert Allen Fabric - Show Off Midnight
Baseboard and Chair Rail Stain - Olympic Interior Stain Ebony
Theater Ceiling - Glidden Evermore Flat Dark Secret
Basement Ceiling - Glidden Evermore Flat Island View
Basement Walls = Glidden Evermore Eggshell Smoke Grey
I can't find any pictures from the manufacturer of the carpet. It is a light grey / light blue that seems to blend well with the other colors.
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I have created another gallery with all the pictures from the drywall finishing to the end of the project. It has all sorts of pcitures, check it out. HT Galery 5
My parents came down this weekend to help to a bunch of little finishing touches to the basement. Friday night my dad and I mounted all the chair rails and base boards all around the room. Saturday we did all sorts of little things. We mounted the registers, bulit the wall at the bottom of the stairs, prepped the railing for stairs, mounted DVD rack to wall, unpacked DVD's into rack, touch-up painting in stairwell and basement, made fabric inserts for shelves, wrapped support pole, hung curtains on door and windows. Sunday we put up the railing in stairwell (which made my dad happy), fixed the basement screen door (after like 7-8 months) and took some pictures.
At this point the basement is pretty much done. There are some little things I want to do, but aren't of immediate importance. Things like trim around stereo rack, in wall shelf, cover for the whole for gas meter, drape to cover opening to laundry room, ticket window. I assume I will always have something to do on the basment or with the electronics. Just the way it goes.
I ordered a couple of bits today. I ordered a popcorn popper and the various accessories from HT Market. I also got a 4x1 HDMI switcher from Gefen. The last items were the shelves for the Middle Atlantic rack I have. Hopefully they will all arrive for the first big party on the 28th of January.
We started this morning again about 7:30 AM. We measured and cut the chair rail and the baseboard all the way around the room. Once we were done cutting it we numbered all the pieces so we could put them back together again. We then sanded and stained all the wood.
The chairs arrived at about 1:30 PM. They are awesome, the color matches quite well with the rest of the room. Very comfy as well. They aren't in their precise final location yet so not sure of layout and look.
After the chairs were delivered we moved all the stained wood inside to help with drying. We then mounted the center speaker on the front wall and the screen. I mounted the screen as high as I could but it is still quite low to the floor. It took a while to assemble the screen. It is 106" which once you see it is huge. It is really nice how the black velvet screen just disappears.
After dinner we were hoping to mount the stained wood. They weren't quite dry yet though. I mounted the shelves for the surround speakers. Then I finished the sconces and they worked even. Lastly I mounted the projector. The mount is a little loser than I wanted but I seemed to be able to tighten it up. Just to test I hooked up DVD player and turned on i, Robot, looked amazing out the box. No sound yet though.
The basement is very close to being done. Next weeked finishing touches I think.
Today we started again about 7 AM. We began with the verticals at the ends of the upper half of walls. Aftet that we mounted the linacoustic. We first mounted the top half of the back wall with black fabric. We prepared for doing the two long walls with the patterned fabric. Keith came over and helped us mount the upper rail for the long walls. We finished the last of stapling on walls about 9 PM.
As my parents were finishing stapling I began mounting the sconces. I also finished covering and mounting the outlets in the fabric.
Tomorrow my dad and I will cut the base board and chair rail. We will then stain it and prep for installation either late Monday or first thing Tuesday. Hopefully tomorrow we can also mount the shelves for speakers and the screen. Whatever bits we can get done the better.
Today we got the lower half of the fabric and linacoustic mounted in the theater room. My dad and I first mounted the verticals at the ends of walls. Then we cut the linacoustic to size and mounted to walls using drywall screws. We cut middle rail boards and then attached fabric. Once we attached the rail my dad and mom stapled all the fabric down. They stapled it about every 2-3 inches, which is a lot on a 12' or 18' long wall. Then my mom cut out holes for the outlets and speaker wire boxes. A great deal of the time I was just watching my parents work, since they are a whole lot better at dealing with fabric than I. It took longer than we had hoped or planned, we thought we could get more done in a day. It looks great though so it is worth it.
Tomorrow we will get the upper half of the wall completed. It should be a little easier since it won't be all crawling on the floor like today was.
I also called the Big Screen Store today. They are delivering chairs on Monday. With that I will be pretty much done. Just a few trim items to do. Must say, awesome.
The carpet guys showed up around 8:30 AM and were finished before noon. My dad acting as my advocate probably got them to do a better job than I would have. They wrapped it on the riser and the sump cover really nice. The color blends really well with the walls.
When I got home from work we went out to get some supplies. We got the base board and chair rails. We also got the stain to prep them.
We will start mounting fabric tomorrow morning.
Wednesday night I had Empire Today (Carpet) come out to give me an estimate. As is the norm the sales person started fairly high at $3900 and then through an amazing number of discounts ended up at $3024. The area to be carpeted was 600 sq. ft. finished and would require close to 700 sq. ft. including leftovers. I went ahead and placed an order.
To get one of the discounts they wanted to install it the next day (Thursday) which I wasn't ready for. I was a little surprised by this since it was 7:30 PM and they were ready to schedule the next day. I was able to convince them to extend it to Friday. My parents are at my house now and hopefully the carpet will be done by the time I get home.
The funny thing is the $3024 price is exactly the same as what it cost me to get drywall installed. Weird.
Tuesday and Wednesday night I did some more painting of the built in shelves, riser and sump cover. I also finished the electrical work for the lights in the riser. I put the first coat of color on the walls in stair well. I also mounted the new ceiling light in stairwell in preparation for Thursday.
Last night my Parents came down to help prep for the rest of the weekend. We cleaned the floor real well. Then I remounted all the switches and outlets in the areas that won't have fabric. I stuff the riser full of insulation and sealed it up. Then my dad and I finished the sump pump cover.
The last thing we did was put the base level 5/4"x4" lathe around the room where fabric will be.
