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Posted: **Tue Jan 22, 2013 12:37 pm**

You're shelving your CDs?

Edited By Malcolm on 1358876256

Posted: **Thu Jan 24, 2013 11:27 am**

GORDON wrote:CD shelving plan.

Don't forget to leave space for your VHS collection and all those 8-track tapes, too.

Posted: **Thu Jan 24, 2013 12:04 pm**

And also I will need to leave a shelf for all the shit your moms leave at my house when I kick them out early in the morning.

Posted: **Tue Jan 29, 2013 3:04 pm**

Finished most, if not all, of the oak trim work.

Here's the cap on the half-wall behins my desk... which I realized pretty much makes it part of my desk, which is kind of neat.

Now that I think about it, I still have to put a little cove trim in the corners... I will get pics of that after I next go to Menard's.

Here's my half wall. Finally pulled the trigger and made a decision on what to do with it... I chose the easiest path, since I still had blue paint left. Three coats later, I like how it looks... it diminishes the shadow from the duct work on what was the white wall, and now it all looks more integrated and less disconjunct.

Also threw some stain on the crawl space cover to tie it all together. I like how it all looks now.

Also, notice the baseboard trim... no more exposed wall studs. Also nice.

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Went and purchased the wood for 3 of the shelving units (4th shelving unit can't be planned until the couch is in place, and I see how much room I have left). Wood is at the carpenter's house and we already have it planked out into the sizes we need. Stand by.

Wood for shelves: $250
Running total: $2872

Posted: **Sun Feb 03, 2013 9:49 pm**

Spent this weekend and last building shelves with my carpenter buddy.

Three 4x8 3/4" thick sheets of furniture-grade oak plywood (shelves and uprights), 2 4x8 1/4" inch sheets of oak plywood (backings), turned into shelves.

Spent another $30 for some solid oak to turn into trim.

Shelves are currently in my basement awaiting stain/poly. Tomorrow.

Running total: $2902

Posted: **Fri Feb 08, 2013 1:00 pm**

CD shelf (shut up) is stained, polied, and attached to the wall.

Yes, there will be a kickplate and trim. When the next round of 11% off rebates comes in the mail I will get to it. Also, notice the outlet. I planned the shelf spacing exactly right.

Here's one of the other shelves, in the process of staining/polying. Wife asked me to take a day off the staining process because there were so many fumes in the basement it was making the laundry stink.

Spent another $60 for more trim and stain and polyurethane. The most expensive part of the process has been the finishing pieces. I think you could frame up a 3,000 square foot house for X amount of money, but all the small finishing stuff will cost you 6x.

Running total: $2962

Edited By GORDON on 1360346493

Posted: **Fri Feb 08, 2013 6:59 pm**

Posted: **Fri Feb 08, 2013 7:58 pm**

Yeah I get to be designated driver tonight.

Posted: **Wed Feb 13, 2013 2:54 pm**

Base trim, and floating corner shelves.

Posted: **Thu Mar 28, 2013 11:02 pm**

Carpet, bitches.

I still have some shelving trim pieces and baseboards in the room, so the laminate is a bit dusty. Basically I have ALL the trim I need to finish the existing shelves, just need to get motivated to put it on and get it stained. Then I can show off the shelves.

We had carpet replaced in other parts of the house, and they threw in the basement for "free," so there was no direct credit added to the Basement Account in the T-Ledger.

Posted: **Sat Apr 13, 2013 5:59 pm**

Shelf trim is on, stained, and first coat of poly. Detailed pics when it is 100% done.

Like many things I have designed and built, I was on my way to Menard's for materials when I conceived of and mentally designed a corner desk. I was surprised how little real estate I ended up with on the main desk... I had planned on their being enough room for my kid to have a system right next to me for gaming... but in reality, my hardware and chair and stuff takes up too much room. So I decided to put in another desk "behind" me.

Once he sat there playing a few rounds of League of Legends with me, I saw that it was kind of hard for him having the mouse on the same surface as the laptop... it didn't look comfortable... so I went and bought $40 worth of materials and built him a retracting keyboard/mouse deck, just like mine, the same day. I'm getting good at this stuff.

So here it all is.

All the shelving isn't built yet, and my toys and stuff keep getting moved down here, so it is a little cluttered at the moment. That will change by project termination.

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But today's project has been installing the wall mount for my new desk TV! Found a stud/drilled the pilot holes/screwed that sucker on there with some big lag screws.

Then I decided it was 4 inches higher than I wanted it and undid all that, and redid it 4 inches lower.

The red thing on the right is the new PS3, for the Netflix and playing of blu rays and whatnot. Bonus points if you can identify the test BD playing in this picture:

I don't really consider the TV and stuff as part of "finishing the basement" project, so I won't include that in the running total, but obviously I will add the stuff for the retracting shelf under the secondary desk.

Running total: $3002

Posted: **Sat Apr 13, 2013 8:14 pm**

What the fuck is that ancient looking, cubic, off-white plastic thingy to the right of the bobblehead?

Posted: **Sat Apr 13, 2013 8:36 pm**

Catt already covered that.

Posted: **Sun Apr 14, 2013 1:17 pm**

It looks very nice. Like a museum display of ancient technology and data storage formats.

Posted: **Sun Apr 14, 2013 1:18 pm**

That's a weird way to say "Library of Awesomeness."

Posted: **Wed Mar 05, 2014 11:27 pm**

Have designed the final shelves and entertainment center. Purchased the trim ahead of time just to make sure Menard's had what I wanted... last time I bought them out of my style of trim and had to wait 10 days to get more. Money is in the budget to buy the final oak plywood, and I just need to get them built.

Trim and stain: $100.
Running total: $3102.

Posted: **Thu Mar 06, 2014 9:03 am**

Posted: **Thu Mar 06, 2014 10:21 am**

Leisher wrote:I want to start a thread called "Finishing my basement 2012"...

I just remembered this...

2014!

Gordon, do you work for the government?

Posted: **Thu Mar 06, 2014 10:29 am**

Leisher wrote:I just remembered this...

2014!

Gordon, do you work for the government?

So he's trying to get you to pay for it too?

Posted: **Thu Mar 06, 2014 10:41 am**

Leisher wrote:
Leisher wrote:I want to start a thread called "Finishing my basement 2012"...
I just remembered this...

2014!

Gordon, do you work for the government?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Been playing for it as the money has been available... that means the room is about done, AND paid for.