Thought I'd post some of my personal 'observations' I've picked up over the last year and a half of my build
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1. Once you attach a soffit, the chin-ups begin in less than 10 minutes you after install it
2. Somewhere, somehow, at least one of the 2x4's in the room has your blood on it....
3. This matches with the other 14 that have sweat drops from the end of your nose!
4. A large rectangular area of green or blue painter's tape on a wall causes you to pause, sit and stare at it for a minimum of 5 minutes per build session
5. True love is your significant other agreeing to paint ANY large household surface flat black
6. Even though you have no audio whatsoever hooked up, you will still turn on the projector and watch at least half of a movie....
7. And the other half the following day...
8. Pure joy is best defined as the UPS guy pulling into your driveway
9. You will 'upgrade' at least three electronic items before your theater is even near finished...
10. You will always buy about a half pound of screws less than what you figured
11. The local hardware store clerk will begin to ask you if it's "On Account?", assuming you are now a contractor...
12. Fibreglass is way, way, waaaay itchier than mineral wool
13. Reading the REW Forum gets far more challenging after 2:30 am
14. Going to work at 6:30 am the following day is even more challenging!
15. The drywall lift - makes you seriously wonder why you never asked for one for Christmas before now....
16. On a regular interval, you seriously ponder as to how much of a gap there really is between "good" and "good enough"
17. Drywall dust in coffee doesn't seriously affect the overall taste or texture
18. Hometheatershack at some point becomes accidentally 'bookmarked' on your work computer
19. A Sawzall really can be used to cut just about 'anything'
20. That 'anything' usually turns out to be the component you just finished building the week prior, before you found and read the post about how to do it the right way!
21. When going out to a theater, you spend your time 50% watching the show, the other 50 scrutinizing the interior design, speaker placement, acoustics....
22. Once you paint something flat black, don't even
think about touching it....ever...
23. When you make an offhand joke and tell the significant other that you're putting a Casino in on the 'other side', they take you
very seriously and get suspicious for a long time.....
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