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Update 2: email tonight says projector will be in on Feb 26th.

Either way, we’ll be painting soon.

Also, other side of basement got an upgrade: bought a smaller fridge for the bar area and mounted the old 65” and hooked up the classic NES and SNES.

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Good call on the riser and good looking dog!

Just need to replace one of those fish tanks with a kegerator & popcorn machine :LOL:
I’m not a beer drinker, so a kegerator is point less. I’ve been drinking whiskey or a sugar feee margarita. We have a popcorn machine in the “kitchen” area.

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Also, checking my emails tonight after everyone went home, looks like the delivery date got moved up way sooner, so here’s hoping they can come install it sooner.

Once I get a confirmation email that it’s in the store (tech will pick up and deliver/install) I will reach out to the sales guy and see if they can do the install sooner.

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No real updates from BB yet.

Over the weekend, while at Menards picking up a light switch for one of the kids rooms, picked out color samples in the Paint department to help decide on the color of the walls other than the wall with the screen. I also picked up another one of those cable pass through outlets for the center channel speaker.

Also we stopped at the local BB and picked up some UHD discs and while there, I picked up a 2 outlet Power Surge protector for the subwoofers. Went to install it and the way the outlet is, the 2 plugs are top and bottom. I have one of those plug in extensions that rotates the plugs, but it sticks out about 2 inches from the wall and I don't like the look of it. I thought about pulling the outlet out of the wall and trying to rotate the whole outlet, and while googling how to do that (never done anything more than swapping out 1 outlet for another one) I found this:


It's on the way, though when on mobile earlier this week, I only saw white/almond and now I'm seeing they have a black one, I think I ordered the white one, we'll see.

I'm hoping to get the back wall painted this weekend if possible. In the meantime, I'm pulling outlet covers off the walls where I can and patching holes in the drywall.

Plan is to put a fresh coat of ceiling paint on all the painted ceilings in the basement and do the back wall black. Then we can decided on the colors of all the other walls in the basement other than the bar area, that's a light grey and was just painted by the guys that flipped this house.
 

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Just got an email the projector is set to be delivered here today.

Initially, the Magnolia BB guy said he'd have the projector delivered to the store and have the install tech pick it up on the way here.

Once it gets here, I will text him and ask if it was a mistake. I suspect that he had it delivered here on the off chance that his install tech gets done with a job early and is in the area and can get over here before the 23rd.

Also, I started trying to clean up the wooden railing going down to the basement. The previous owner repainted the hallway (poorly) and they got overspray/paint all over it. I have some alcohol swaps and I tried to get that overspray off and surprisingly it worked. There's thicker latex paint on the railing in places, that's a little harder to get off, but it does come off.

Too many small projects to work on here, but I'm chipping away at them slowly as I can.
 

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Got home from Menards thinking we were done for the night. Wife had other ideas. We just finished what we could. Dark grey for the side walls and the rest of the walls other than the 1 small wall next to the receiver will be light grey tomorrow. I need to patch a few scuffs in that side wall tonight and sand in the AM then paint. Also picked up black outlets and outlet covers and 2 more cable pass through outlets, which will go on later this week once paint is all dry and any touch ups are done.

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I’m glad the projector got delayed…it gave us time and a deadline to get this done. The paint on the walls was pretty gross and dirty, so I’m super glad we got time to do this.


When I turned the lights off, it was PITCH BLACK in the basement. Granted, it’s a little overcast today.
 
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Speakers are back and receiver is also back, I plugged everything back in, but without a TV Connected, I can’t configure anything. Airplay audio isn’t working and even though I was able to connect via Bluetooth on my phone; audio was not playing. Will bring out an old 32” LCD tv and do all that tomorrow.

But pretty much here’s how it’s going to look when done, aside from actual subwoofer placement.

Outlets will be changed tomorrow after a new one arrives to all black outlets.

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