Home Improvements

**TonyM** · 12-28-2010, 05:29 PM

Originally Posted by UTRacerX9

Great job on the molding, I'm a bit jealous! My ceiling doesn't meet the wall at a 90 degree angle unfortunately, it slopes up about 45 degrees for about 2-3 feet on the front wall and side walls. I thought about putting sconces in before I painted, but opted against that in favor of doing floor LED's on the bottom (I have two risers) for effect.

Yeah it's tough to do crown with the vaulted ceilings. I've seen people do it and it can look OK. For how I used the crown, to simply serve as a styling element and hide the rope lights, you may be able to pull it off with your ceiling. Go to home depot and grab a piece and hold it up there at different heights. You may be surprised how nice it looks.

That's awesome you can do risers in yours. I think if my Dad were staying in his house longer term we would have done something serious. The wall opposite the TV has an attic on the other side with room to blow the theater wall out 6-8 feet at full ceiling height, even more if willing to sacrifice the height. That room could be seriously huge with a couple dollars dropped into it.

Originally Posted by 2fnloud

now all you need is to tie in that lighting to your 1000 remote, set up a macro and you would be styling.

If Dad wasn't planning on selling his place already I may have been able to talk him into it, haha. If I had budget control over the job I would've added a few 'extras' and IR lighting control was tops on my list. Plus he already has a Sony AX4000 remote I got him for Christmas a few years ago so we already had half the equipment!

**Granny** · 12-28-2010, 08:10 PM

TonyM do you do this as a career or on the side?

This is one of the things I like about our new community.

I have time to get to know everyone on a more personal level.

**TonyM** · 12-29-2010, 08:27 AM

On the side for now. I'd like to make a business out of it in the not too distant future doing small renovations, theatres/networking/automation, etc. Just too many school loans to payoff from chasing the cushy office job . . . now all I want to do is manual labor (to an extent).

**beepbeep** · 12-29-2010, 04:05 PM

Originally Posted by TonyM

On the side for now. I'd like to make a business out of it in the not too distant future doing small renovations, theatres/networking/automation, etc. Just too many school loans to payoff from chasing the cushy office job . . . now all I want to do is manual labor (to an extent).

Great pics and great job!! I, too, would LOVE to do this kind of thing on the side (which is one of the reasons we bought the other place). Chris, thankfully, likes it, too, though with the economy and housing still in the crapper, I don't think now is the time to pursue it 100%.

Damnit.

**TonyM** · 12-29-2010, 04:31 PM

Originally Posted by beepbeep

Great pics and great job!! I, too, would LOVE to do this kind of thing on the side (which is one of the reasons we bought the other place). Chris, thankfully, likes it, too, though with the economy and housing still in the crapper, I don't think now is the time to pursue it 100%.

Damnit.

Thanks for the compliment.

That was sort of the intent with the house this year, test the waters on the flip market. Didn't lose money, but didn't make as much as planned either.

**beepbeep** · 12-29-2010, 04:40 PM

Originally Posted by TonyM

Thanks for the compliment.

That was sort of the intent with the house this year, test the waters on the flip market. Didn't lose money, but didn't make as much as planned either.

Yea, that was kinda our thought, too. We've decided that once we're finished, we're just going to rent it for now, til things pick back up. It's tiring work, but I really enjoy it. Just wish there were more funds to go along with the enjoyment of it.

**UTRacerX9** · 12-29-2010, 04:56 PM

Renovating and flipping houses is what my Dad wants to do as well, but after just going through a ton of crap buying the house I'm living in now, we decided there's no way we will do it until we have like 150-200k in cash so we don't have to deal with banks and all the goddamn hoops they make you jump through to get a mortgage now. It's fun to do though.

**TonyM** · 12-29-2010, 05:02 PM

House flipping is definitely not for the faint of heart haha. If anyone who's thinking of doing it ever wants any advice or some lessons learned, shoot me a PM and I'll be able to consult.