Being the great indoorsmen that we are, we rationalized that we needed a space where we could "let out hair down" and enjoy a good movie and our music collection. Living in a typical Midtown house, most of the rooms in our historic home are chopped up and rather on the small side. So up we went to the attic. Sorry I don't have any photos of the before, but trust me, you're better off. The most uneven and sorry sheetrock job in history hung in part of the attic - it had formerly been a boy's bedroom - with one poor window unit cooling those poor kids in a Southern summer, they probably wanted to escape their attic more than Anne Frank did. Sorry, I know that was tastless.
Of course every hang out spot needs a bar - so my husband and our British carpenter, Phil, who we love, came up with the idea for a copper surfaced bar. My do it yourself husband strode up to the local Home Depot and came home with two ball peen hammers....
Six weeks of bone shattering, pounding labor ensued for my man. Six weeks of incessant banging later, our border collie and I will never quite be the same either. Our dog can now fall asleep un impeded during a full volume jamming session of "Back in Black."
The results were well worth it though, our friends now beg us to have more parties on "number three" as we so sophisticatingly call our hang out spot. We had the walls painted in a chocolate brown matte color to make the sloping walls recede, and decked out all the woodwork and wooden floors in stark and clean white. We thought we would end up using number 3 more in the winter months - kind of like a couple of hibernating bears, but it ends up we use it more in the hot summer months because the colors keep it feeling so cool!
Of course every hang out spot needs a bar - so my husband and our British carpenter, Phil, who we love, came up with the idea for a copper surfaced bar. My do it yourself husband strode up to the local Home Depot and came home with two ball peen hammers....
Six weeks of bone shattering, pounding labor ensued for my man. Six weeks of incessant banging later, our border collie and I will never quite be the same either. Our dog can now fall asleep un impeded during a full volume jamming session of "Back in Black."
The results were well worth it though, our friends now beg us to have more parties on "number three" as we so sophisticatingly call our hang out spot. We had the walls painted in a chocolate brown matte color to make the sloping walls recede, and decked out all the woodwork and wooden floors in stark and clean white. We thought we would end up using number 3 more in the winter months - kind of like a couple of hibernating bears, but it ends up we use it more in the hot summer months because the colors keep it feeling so cool!
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