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Fairfield kit bashing

Pictures scanned (not by me, I found them on the web) from Nutshell News of other's Fairfield kit bashes...

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have you guys seen this yet?

Umi no Ue no Oshiro (A Castle On the Ocean)

days fourteen and fifteen

I'm in!

I'm not all the way unpacked yet...the piles of stuff on the worktable is all junk that has to be sorted through and put away.  I don't have art hung on the wall yet either...and the only things stuck to my bulletin board are things that I found when I was unpacking and didn't know what to do with.

I'm not sure everything is where it's going to stay...things may move around as I start using the space...we'll see what it looks like in a couple of months.

I was planning on putting trim around the top of the two new shelving units we built, but I ended up putting the blue boxes on top of the L-shaped shelves...I simply had nowhere else to go with them at the time.  Now if I want to trim I'm going to have to find someplace else to put those, or just do a simple, small quarter-round trim.  I'll have to think about it.

I bought a new rug to put under the worktable...the floor is pretty slippery, and I didn't want to end up on the other side of the room every time I sneezed...when I'm working on teeny tiny miniature stuff I have to stay still.

I also bought the white table I've got the printer and scanner on...I hid the ugly metal file cabinet in the closet.

The box under the table is full of stuff for Melinda to sort through when she comes upstate next...it's full of odds and ends and all the back issues of Cloth, Paper, Scissors magazine.   I've also got the back of my car full of junk to take to Goodwill.  It's amazing the amount of stuff I had in that room.

Here's the before pictures...

Here's the after pictures...

 

day thirteen

The lighting is done.

This picture is just of the workspace lights.  You can't see it in this picture, but the switches for are on the right hand side of the table apron.

All of the workspace lighting was my brilliant husband's idea.  He's pretty awesome.

My five dollar re-store ceiling light is awesome too.

 

days eleven and twelve

The best laid plans...

I've got a nice big 30" deep worktable that's going to be incredible...and which I can't reach over to get to the top two shelves of the L-shaped shelves I put up on the walls behind it.  I told Matt I'd just use a step stool, but he was afraid if I got up on a step stool, then leaned forward to reach something, that the stool might slide backward on the slippery new wood floor and I'd fall.  He put another bracket/brace under the table so it would be strong enough for me to stand on...it probably was already, but he wanted to play safe.

So...that's done now, and he started putting the apron on the table, which looks really nice.

He's got a light up under the L-shaped shelves, and has to put in the under-table light (for when I drop things on the floor, so I don't have to run out to the kitchen to grab the flashlight), and the swing arm light.  He's trading his swing arm light for mine, since his has a magnifier.  He's going to run the lights back to a junction box under the table, then to switches he's going to mount on the front of the apron.  He's putting an electrical outlet on the front of the apron too, so that I don't have to run cords over the top of what I'm working on when I need use a power tool.  My guy's pretty clever!

I finished my touch up painting, including painting the wire mold around the cord for the under-shelf light.  It's looking really nice in there!

I'm waiting on estimates for new shades for the windows...one of the guys Matt works with also has his own window blinds business.  I told him that I wanted a light colored natural material...rattan or seagrass...no plastic or metal...and to quote for roman blinds and roller blinds.  I can't wait to see what he comes up with.  I think roman blinds would look very nice, and am hoping they're not exorbitantly more than simple roller blinds.

Once the wiring and apron are finished Matt has to terminate the new (additional) network cables to the wall plate, and then I think we're done.  Yippee!  I can't wait to have the computer back in the studio,  it's a pain to have it on my dresser...though that's better than not having it hooked up at all.

Progress has been a lot slower now that we're both back to work, but I should be able to move back in this weekend.