this week
earlier this evening i met with the artist to go over the paint/floor/lighting plans for the studio. she picked out some pretty swank colors and i think they're going to work really well in the room. we went to home depot and spent way too much time agonizing over laminate flooring. in the end, we just kind of accidentally wandered past a display that had some laminate flooring that was exactly the right tone for what she had in mind, is a really good price, and best of all, is in stock.
the plan is to start painting wednesday evening, which means i have to make sure all the main room is all prepared by tomorrow evening. on that note...
i got the corner bead material today. it was wide enough to span the frankencorner without any problems. initially i was a bit dubious as to the adhesion strength of paper-based corner beads which don't use any fasteners, but so far it seems to be pretty strong, and i really like the fact that this stuff isn't susceptible to the problem that the metal beads have where a dinged-up corner can wind up exposing the underlying metal. i need to do another skim coat or two of mud tonight/tomorrow morning, but other than that it's pretty much done.
the rest of the mud in the room is touched up and ready for sanding.
i spent a good chunk of the evening installing the foam rod and acoustic caulk along the base of all the walls. i'm slowly getting better at getting a not-too-terribly-sloppy caulking application on the corners. it's really tricky when all of the gaps are 1/4" or more--i'm used to dealing with much narrower caulk beads. i've gotten pretty good at cheating with the help of some putty knives.
i'm beginning to work out the details of the speaker soffits. more on that later.