General
Overhead Garage Storage
Since my basement is finished, I don’t have much room to store bulk items. Closets can help to de-clutter. Basement and garage shelving can go a long way towards solving the storage problem. However, one often overlooked option is the garage ceiling. Depending on the ceiling height, you may have one or more storage options. [...]
How to Build a Media Room – Part 3
In Part 1 and Part 2 of the series of how to build a media room, we provided ideas for planning, constructing, and decorating a home theater. As a follow-up, here are a few pictures of our finished product.
Here is the entrance. We chose double doors because we wanted more of a grand entrance [...]
How to Build a Media Room – Part 2
In Part 1 of this article, I discussed reasons why you may want to build a media room, choosing a location in your home, pre-wiring, and adding lighting, flooring, and sound insulation. In this post, we’ll discuss the remaining steps.
Painting the Room
The ideal paint for a media room is a dark color in a flat [...]
How to Build a Media Room
While I love the versatility of locating the primary television in a family gathering area, that location often makes it difficult to create an ideal atmosphere for watching movies. If you are a television and movie aficionado and have a spare room in your home, you may want to consider turning that room into a [...]
My Most Useful Tools
A little while back, I wrote a series discussing the tools that were in my basic toolkit (my basic toolkit is the bag of tools that a grab first for any home improvement, DIY, or repair project). However, I have many tools that I use often, but are not in my basic toolkit. So with [...]
