The snowball effect

We decided it was time to do a few upgrades in our theater room. By a few upgrades, I mean some new furniture and rearranging the layout a bit. As any good project does, it has snowballed out of control. What began as a few simple upgrades has turned into near minor remodeling, complete with demolition. It all began with the furniture. We chose something we liked and set up delivery. Later that night as we started to make room for the new furniture we started to think of other things we would like to do with the room. Well since the room will be empty for a few days, it is only logical that now is the best time for new carpet. Because the room will never be empty again we need to take advantage of this opportunity. And if we are going to carpet the theater room then we should probably go ahead and look into carpeting the rest of the basement and maybe up the stairs, get the point. The jury is still out on the carpet debacle. One of things we have planned on doing since the beginning of this project was moving the screen from one wall to another. Sounds simple enough, right. Well the screen just happened to be covering a monstrosity of a wall that has horrible wood paneling. Not the kind that is all one sheet no that would be too easy. This is the nasty seventies variety that consists of hundreds of pieces of ugly wood nailed up on the wall. Why, oh why did anyone find this attractive? As we talked about our options for this eyesore of a wall, we decided to test a piece to see how hard it would be to remove. The next thing I know we are knee deep in nasty seventies wood paneling. Now we are committed. Obviously, we have to paint the wall now. First, it needs to be sanded and prepped for paint because not only was the wood nailed to the wall but also glued, for good measure I suppose. Ok now that we are committed to painting, there are a few places that need touch ups around the room so Ben starts to spackle and even to mud and tape in a few places while I head out for paint with what we are pretty sure is the right color chip to match the rest of the room. The trip for the paint is a story all its own. We start to paint and it is obvious that we will need at least two coats for the one wall. While that wall is drying we start to work on the touch-ups around the room. At first, we thought we got lucky and matched the color. After some time drying, we realized we had not been so lucky. The new paint is considerably darker than the color already on the walls. This means we have to repaint the whole room. So today my assignment is, get more red paint. Then tonight we paint. The real kicker is the new furniture is coming tomorrow, the whole room is torn apart, and we cannot get carpet laid in there until Friday at the absolute soonest. Like I said, the snowball effect. To be continued…