BEFORE & AFTER: MUSIC ROOM

BEFORE: Music room, west wall
February 2011

Before: Music Room , south wall
February 2011

AFTER: Music room, west wall
December 2012

What used to be a radiator on the west wall of this room is now the location of a new door which opens onto a 14 x 17 2nd floor deck atop the new addition on the back of the house.  Wallace designed and Roy Hoffert fabricated the sturdy industrial shelving.

Deck off of the music room

AFTER: Music room, south wall
December 2012

No lack of auditory stimulation in this house.  You name a music  genre, he probably has at least a "taste" of it.  I hear tell there is a form of cataloging to the collection but I have not figured it out yet.

STEAMPUNK SHELVING

    Guided by Wallace's ideas, Roy Hoffert of Hoffert Furniture and Cabinetry has constructed this shelving to house Wallace's vinyl and CD collection.  Using stock lumber, plumbing pipe, and beautiful heart pine, Roy has done it again!  

Pipes and heart pine shelves

 

CD shelving

We are, yet again, fantastically happy customers. 

BEAM ME UP

  

                   My husband was (is) a child of the 60's and 70's. 

                                          All things 'space' captured his imagination.

          The toys....                     

                   

                                    The TV shows....               

              

The reading material...        

             

At 2 years old, our first child  would curl up next to his daddy and listen to adventures of Spaceman Spiff.

                                                                                                   

I would often (and sometimes still do) catch the two 'boys' watching cartoons together.....

   

So, it should have been no surprise that when we made a trip to Chicago a year ago, 

we came back with this...

A light for Wallace's music room

BEAM ME UP, SCOTTY!

EXIT

     Exiting this door will lead you to a second floor deck over the family room addition.  It is my suspicion that, once it is completed, it will be another favorite spot for Miss Magnolia.  Until this day she had not been out the door to experience the view.

The deck is right off what we have been calling "the music room."  Being on the west side of the house, it will definitely be toasty hot come summer weather.  For now, it is a cozy spot on a sunny spring afternoon and a perfect sunset spot whatever the temperature.

The posts, though approximately 12 inches taller to meet current building codes, are modeled after a single remaining balustrade post from the front of the house which we found in the basement with dozens of balusters and a 5 foot section of railing.  A stretch of turned balusters will run between each new post and the new deck will be complete.  I anticipate the completion by this coming week.

NEW CONSTRUCTION BEGINS

 The butler's pantry on the northwest side of the house requires a new foundation and reconstruction  because of past water damage.  This necessitates tearing down and rebuilding.

So long old  butler's pantry

Because of all this necessary construction, we've had plans to move a wall to reconfigure the 2 bathrooms above the pantry to include a laundry space.

Hello sky

We've been watching the weather and crossing our fingers for NO RAIN.