Walt, that is beautiful and you have some serious talent. Thanks for sharing start to finish. I am glad someone revived this so I could see it. I took on basement finishing with zero experience and it was some trial and error but it turned out great. Going to post the almost finished pics in my original thread in off topic section later. Carpet finally goes in end of this month and it is done. Only took me 2 years - time and money. I have two basements so the next one is going to be pre-wired for surround sound and entertainment center. Now I want to do something like this but it seems really intimidating. I would love to do something like this on a smaller scale. That is just such an impressive piece. You should be really proud of that.
Thanks jsnake. It's not as intimidating as it looks. Just a bunch of "little" projects arranged head to toe. Take your time, do some here and there, like you've done on the basements. It all comes together in the end.
Great advice. On the basement I couldn't see the big picture while in progress. I am a perfectionist and worried about each step even though I knew in the end you wouldn't see the framing and guts of it all. Learned watching youtube and advice from cigar buddies. I think I may add something similar to my plans. If I do I will post pics and if you don't mind I may ask for some suggestions.
Great advice. On the basement I couldn't see the big picture while in progress. I am a perfectionist and worried about each step even though I knew in the end you wouldn't see the framing and guts of it all. Learned watching youtube and advice from cigar buddies. I think I may add something similar to my plans. If I do I will post pics and if you don't mind I may ask for some suggestions.
absolutely. Pm or or a regular thread. Whichever you prefer.
I had to look this up to see what you were adding LED's to. Wow!! Beautiful piece. I'd love to build something like that (although I've never really built anything!). Can't wait to see what the additional lights look like. Too cool, Walt. Maybe I'll try a smaller piece first, and go from there. We rent now so I wouldn't be able to do a built in custom job like that. Looks like you nailed every detail. Many shops would be jealous, I'm sure.
1. Beautiful work man!!!
2. I could be wrong, but it KINDA sounds like you just invited the forum to your brand spankin new cigar lounge!! (I'll take a Modelo on tap please good sir!)
Thanks, and yes, everyone here is more than welcome to a drink and smoke on me if ever in the area. I cook rather well too, so dinner would be served too. So far, just AJ has taken me up on this.
Thanks, and yes, everyone here is more than welcome to a drink and smoke on me if ever in the area. I cook rather well too, so dinner would be served too. So far, just AJ has taken me up on this.
we are currently planning our vacation for 2015 soooo....
Thanks, and yes, everyone here is more than welcome to a drink and smoke on me if ever in the area. I cook rather well too, so dinner would be served too. So far, just AJ has taken me up on this.
we are currently planning our vacation for 2015 soooo....
Bring it Vance! We can have a bookmarking 101 seminar!
OMG, I love it. My husband isn't your biggest fan right now though. He asked me why I was measuring the walls in the someday-to-be bar room (once the little guy stops using it as a playroom). I showed him these pictures
OMG, I love it. My husband isn't your biggest fan right now though. He asked me why I was measuring the walls in the someday-to-be bar room (once the little guy stops using it as a playroom). I showed him these pictures
Hahahaha, yeah Walt has some serious skills to say the least. He is also one of the single most selfless people I've met. Truly an all around great guy and remarkable brother
Man, guess this got posted up while I was away; glad it got bumped! Some seriously incredible work here man, no joke! I'm curious though, why the big base that seems to be completely empty? When I saw the original frame I thought maybe that was gonna be like open cabinet box storage, and then display storage up top... any reason you didn't utilize that space? Obviously it works for you (and is WAY nicer than anything I got!), just curious.
Man, guess this got posted up while I was away; glad it got bumped! Some seriously incredible work here man, no joke! I'm curious though, why the big base that seems to be completely empty? When I saw the original frame I thought maybe that was gonna be like open cabinet box storage, and then display storage up top... any reason you didn't utilize that space? Obviously it works for you (and is WAY nicer than anything I got!), just curious.
I love questions and discussions like this, one of my fav things about this place is the stuff like this The discussions and back and forth about stuff like this is just fascinating to me. Great question Hays!
Man, guess this got posted up while I was away; glad it got bumped! Some seriously incredible work here man, no joke! I'm curious though, why the big base that seems to be completely empty? When I saw the original frame I thought maybe that was gonna be like open cabinet box storage, and then display storage up top... any reason you didn't utilize that space? Obviously it works for you (and is WAY nicer than anything I got!), just curious.
Yeah, fair question... I built it as I went along. I planned to do something like cabinets at the beginning. I knew I wanted no more than 20 cubic feet, which would then require way more horsepower for humidification than what I was walling to get into. I also wanted the majority of the shelving to be at chest level like at a BnM. In fact, I made several trips to my Tobacco Tin here just to get ideas. I thought about that space below. It contains supports (i.e. the off-kilter middle 2x4 that offers a lip for the bottom shelf to rest upon). I also wanted plenty of space down there to have electrical wiring that ran through the open space rather than attached to wood, just in case something went wrong and they overheat. I considered putting cabinet doors there for storage of whatever (non-humidified). In the end, my laziness won out and no cabinet doors were made. I could say that in a past life I was a master electrician who always had to work in enclosed enivironments/spaces. I made sure any electrical work would be very easy to with lots of space. But in the end, pure laziness. I was ready for this thing to be done. My chest humidor and coolerdor were filling up.
Man, guess this got posted up while I was away; glad it got bumped! Some seriously incredible work here man, no joke! I'm curious though, why the big base that seems to be completely empty? When I saw the original frame I thought maybe that was gonna be like open cabinet box storage, and then display storage up top... any reason you didn't utilize that space? Obviously it works for you (and is WAY nicer than anything I got!), just curious.
Yeah, fair question... I built it as I went along. I planned to do something like cabinets at the beginning. I knew I wanted no more than 20 cubic feet, which would then require way more horsepower for humidification than what I was walling to get into. I also wanted the majority of the shelving to be at chest level like at a BnM. In fact, I made several trips to my Tobacco Tin here just to get ideas. I thought about that space below. It contains supports (i.e. the off-kilter middle 2x4 that offers a lip for the bottom shelf to rest upon). I also wanted plenty of space down there to have electrical wiring that ran through the open space rather than attached to wood, just in case something went wrong and they overheat. I considered putting cabinet doors there for storage of whatever (non-humidified). In the end, my laziness won out and no cabinet doors were made. I could say that in a past life I was a master electrician who always had to work in enclosed enivironments/spaces. I made sure any electrical work would be very easy to with lots of space. But in the end, pure laziness. I was ready for this thing to be done. My chest humidor and coolerdor were filling up.
Makes sense to me, and is certainly as good of an explanation as any! I can understand wanting the open space for the electrical... few years back had to climb into some VERY cramped spaces to rewire the electrical system on my sailboat, and...well, yeah it wasn´t pretty. Anyway, like I said man, looks awesome!
Man, guess this got posted up while I was away; glad it got bumped! Some seriously incredible work here man, no joke! I'm curious though, why the big base that seems to be completely empty? When I saw the original frame I thought maybe that was gonna be like open cabinet box storage, and then display storage up top... any reason you didn't utilize that space? Obviously it works for you (and is WAY nicer than anything I got!), just curious.
Yeah, fair question... I built it as I went along. I planned to do something like cabinets at the beginning. I knew I wanted no more than 20 cubic feet, which would then require way more horsepower for humidification than what I was walling to get into. I also wanted the majority of the shelving to be at chest level like at a BnM. In fact, I made several trips to my Tobacco Tin here just to get ideas. I thought about that space below. It contains supports (i.e. the off-kilter middle 2x4 that offers a lip for the bottom shelf to rest upon). I also wanted plenty of space down there to have electrical wiring that ran through the open space rather than attached to wood, just in case something went wrong and they overheat. I considered putting cabinet doors there for storage of whatever (non-humidified). In the end, my laziness won out and no cabinet doors were made. I could say that in a past life I was a master electrician who always had to work in enclosed enivironments/spaces. I made sure any electrical work would be very easy to with lots of space. But in the end, pure laziness. I was ready for this thing to be done. My chest humidor and coolerdor were filling up.
Makes sense to me, and is certainly as good of an explanation as any! I can understand wanting the open space for the electrical... few years back had to climb into some VERY cramped spaces to rewire the electrical system on my sailboat, and...well, yeah it wasn´t pretty. Anyway, like I said man, looks awesome!
When you bring into play the looking downstream for what would I do if I had to get into this place to make a repair then that does make tons more sense and is really intelligent. Can't tell you how many hours I've soent crammed into nasty places fixing electrical issues in cars or houses with me swearing left and right about how stupid it was to put X here since there is zero space. Smart thinking Walt, really.
OK.. so the lights came in and they are absolutely perfect. I'll be ordering a few more expansion kits and daisy chain them off this one. I set it up on the bottom of the top shelf, illuminating the 2nd shelf.
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