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| The Music is "Rhapsody On a Theme of Paganini" by Rachmaninoff. |
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| Step 6: One Clutter Place Cleaning out the Attic and turning it into an Office |
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| I couldn't bear to show you the attic before we cleaned it out!!! This is what it looked like before construction started... |
| Same corner, but better view of roof underlayment. (Sorry about the glare...) |
| This is the view from the back wall of the attic, through the access door, into the guest room (See Floorplan - Second Floor). That's the lathe behind the plaster on the guest room side... |
| Same wall, view to the left of the access door... |
| Same wall, view to the right of the access door... |
| The doorway was cut about a foot higher and given a softly arched top.. Dan especially appreciates this...he's 6'4" !!! |
| And the electrical service went in... Since this is going to be our office, we went with three outlets on each wall. |
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| The day the guys started insulating, we had a "Blue Norther" come through Florida... It was colder than a well-digger's patoot!!! The insulation made all the difference in the world... |
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| The wallboard is installed, and a new window to the tree tops was added to turn the "converted attic" into a room... |
| The first afternoon, along about 4:00PM, the sun started shining through this window into the guest room. From the hallway, I saw the light under the closed door and FREAKED!!! I thought the house was on fire!!! :O} |
| This is the view of the new window from the outside. We also had a motion-detector floodlight installed over the window to light up this very dark side of the yard at night. |
| I think if I add another window to this wall, it should be ROUND... I like consistency in design, don't you??? (She said, tongue-in-cheek! The only constant factor here being that every window is a different size and shape...) |
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| The walls were painted a very soft blue, and an industrial grade berber carpet was installed... and just like THAT! it was Moving Day!!! |
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| 'Course, it was required by Law that we trash the rest of the house in the process! This is what my living room looked like during the course of the move... |
| Tin Lizzie's Place 2001 |