The Family Room Becomes the Den

Progress. The fireplace is drywalled in. Final sanding and it's ready for priming and painting. We'll trim the corners and the rest of it out to give it a panelled look, probably cloud white for the background and the trim colour for mouldings. You probably can't see them clearly, but there are speaker wires coming out of the walls above each of the end table lamps for the rear speakers of the surround sound system. Installed a new electrical outlet in the center of the ceiling, and a ceiling fan identical to the one in the living room. It didn't go off without a hitch, however. You see the downrod between the ceiling mount and the motor housing? It's supposed to mount to the motor housing by sliding into a bore on the top of the housing, and then you install a steel pin through holes in the bore and the downroad to connect them together. Except the downrod supplied had no holes. !&!&^%!. Being as stubborn as I am, and not wanting to take everything down, package it up and take it back to the store, I took the ceiling fan in the living room apart so I could measure the size and location of the holes in it's downroad, and then drilled the new one out. Needless to say I was pissed.





Here's a view of what I now call the den looking toward the back yard. Eventually the plan is to mount the tv on the wall above the sideboard to make room for a center speaker below the tv. Baseboard work left to do, trim around the new garden doors, install 4 pot lights, move the heater in the wall to the left of where the fireplace was/is....... you get the picture.

The cats now have the nicest room in the house. Where's the justice in that?