The Esquire Theater!! Construction Begins... - Page 54

Yep, I did get shorts...but I don't have any of the "soreness" you're talking about. You're blaming that on biking?!?!

Thanks and good to hear from you Mark! Hope you're doing well and that we can meet up in FL over the winter!



Ugh - If I had it to do over again, the molding would be ONE color. Taping and painting has been soooo time consuming! I'm hoping to do the final coat of paint tomorrow and install on Sunday. The new rope lights are much better...and they WORK! And BllDo's right...I have been playing hockey and riding the bike a lot lately.

Well I finally have a bit of an update, even though it is minor. The crown molding is done. FINALLY! I really didn't enjoy painting this stuff. If I had it to do over again, it would all be one color for sure.

The rope lights need to be pulled forward to the front of the molding in order to get a better wash of light on the ceiling...that is a project for next weekend. Here are a few pics of the final product:

I have a LOT of nail holes to fill and some touch-up painting to do on the ceiling. Wow that Rosco paint shows a mark every time you touch it.





Here you can see that I had a bit of an issue with the equipment room door. There is actually a little hole in the wall where the lights pass back into the equipment room and then come back into the theater on the other side of the door. I wasn't sure if that was going to work, but it seems to have turned out really well. I had tons of rope light, so I left enough slack back in the equipment room to do the crown and lights back there if I decide I want to. I think I have almost enough leftover crown as well.




This pic shows the lights before I added the little trays that keep the rope straight. You can see that the light on the ceiling is wavy here. I definitely suggest those trays - they're cheap and make laying the lights in the molding a lot easier.

You guys are certainly welcome to come by and check it out in person any time. I am looking forward to watching The Avengers when it is released on disc next week. Maybe we can schedule something.

Thanks for all the compliments guys. Michel - I'll post some close ups as soon as I fix the embarrassing mess I made out of the ceiling!

I just checked out the Darbee Darblet and it does look like an interesting little device. I would be interested in taking a look at it.

So I was at a conference last week in Cooperstown, NY. Besides being worth the trip just to see the baseball hall of fame, Cooperstown is a really nice place to visit in September when the leaves are starting to change and the weather is still nice. We stayed at the Otesaga Hotel on Otsego Lake (a great place to hold a conference as well...nice golf course and outstanding food). I'm not really one for historic hotels (creaky floorboards and flowery wallpaper just aren't my things) but the views were really stunning. Here's a pic from the veranda...you can see the Pebble Beach-inspired 18th hole pin near the water.





Now on to theater stuff...

The fabric for my panels arrived while I was away. I am excited about the colors (and yes, I know I need to fix that tail of rope light that is hanging out up there ):





I also want to extend a huge thank you to Andreas who gave up several hours of his Sunday to help me rip up some ply to make the frames for the panels. We bought 3/4" Sandeply at HD and got down to business. I don't have a pic of all 56 boards that we ripped and mitered but here you can see that I did some sanding last night and was getting ready for the first coat of paint on the tops and bottoms of the panels. That little can of paint definitely isn't going to cut it...





I'm hoping to have all fourteen frames built by the end of the week!

Haha yes you're right TMcG...I'm already behind my self-imposed deadline! I finished sanding all of the boards last night and have about 1/3 of it primed, but I'm a few days away from any actual assembly...

Hey - no jinxing the hockey this year guys! I survived the season opener on Sunday relatively unscathed.

Wellllll....I guess you're right TMcG! I don't have all of the frames built. But in my defense, that's because I got too excited and decided to install some before I built the rest of them. There will be 14 panels in total...7 are assembled and 4 installed as you can see here. (photo evidence that I have actually accomplished something )

Frames attached to the wall...




And then...fabric! The red is FR701 Claret Accent. It looks to have an ugly orange tint to it in the pic, but it is a nice true red in person. The gray color is Elephant from the GOM Framework line. It is much harder to work with than the FR701 as it pulls easily and there doesn't seem to be much of a way to avoid it. I am holding my breath as I'm stapling and I probably wouldn't order from this line again.




I still need to add the top cap trim around the front perimeter of the panels to hide all of the staples. You can see a piece of it resting against the nearest panel in this pic...