doubtingben

I finally picked the paints for the pipe supports.

Desktop glued and trimmed!
Pipe supports installed.
Now I have to figure out the banding before the clear coat.

I repainted the walls, and it looks much better:

I left the 3 “windows” because I liked the contrasted colors, and I was afraid it was going to be too dark.
The problem is the taped edges leaked… no one told me the secret to preventing that…

So now I am trying to think of a way to create a border between them to clean up that edge.

Suggestions welcome!

And yes, the fluorescent light above the tile in the third picture is making the lighter paint appear green. Now I need to replace that light too.

So here are some after pictures… I always forget to take some before I get started.

Tile floor:

This turned out really nice. The accent and 12″ porcelain tiles where from Home Depot.

Epoxy floor.

I used Rust-Oleum basement Epoxy with a tintable base. This is Khaki.

Then the floor was covered with 2 coats of arcylic sealer. It turned out pretty good, but I should have sealed the cracks. They didn’t fill in as much as I had hoped. New wall paint is on my list…

If you have any ideas on what to put in the recessed hole, I’m open to suggestions. So far we have: bookcase, aquarium, monitors/TV.

3/4 shot of part of the ceiling:

Note the ceiling cutout in the corner. The drop ceiling would have made the last step too low, so we dry walled the ceiling and boxed in the corner. Thanks Jon!

Pipe:

And here are the pipes I want to use for the desktop supports. Some are cleaned and some aren’t yet…