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Cabinets and sheetrock - 02/06/06


The arrival of our cabinets was the excitement of the month. We have sheetrocked walls and we're ready to start painting the interior and the exterior. The driveway should be poured this week.

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1/17/06. Sheetrocking started today. The downstairs ceiling is done.
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Living room speaker wires.
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Resilient channels for soundproofing in the music room. The sheetrock is screwed into the the upper section of each strip which is suspended from the wall. The weight of the sheetrock causes it to naturally hang away from the surface of the wall, to minimize trasfer of vibrations through the walls.
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First 2006 oranges from our tree on Alabama St.
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1/18/06. The cabinets arrived on a 74' semi. We met the truck in San Rafael and transfered the cabinets to Laddie's dump truck to get them to the house.
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A moment for the view.
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1/22/06. The redwood battons are up on the west side.
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Painting poster board with exterior color samples.
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The walls are taped.
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Music room.
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Peeking in on our cabinets for the first time.
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Piles of cabinets.
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Jim Burnett and Jeff setting our cabinets.
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Color samples.
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Color samples for stairway walls.
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Priming the walls begins.