Finished the flooring and trim yesterday, the desk today. Other than solar (leaving that part to the pros on Tuesday) and shelves and moving all writing / making stuff out there, major DIY NuSanctum construction operations are complete. Aiming to be Working-working in there by the end of the week.
Ceilings, walls, and eaves are done. Gaps in the walls on the right and left are the next pieces to tackle: wrap-around shelving for under the eaves and above those workstations (I’ll also build shelving for under the stand-up desks. Bit by bit, (Nu)Sanctum comes to life…
Decided I wasn’t feeling the metal ceiling in NuSanctum, so I tore it out and put in a new one. And that's what I did with my day.
NuSanctum (formerly NuShed) progress continues apace: took a step back and put everything in something resembling its final placement (from the cacophony of its previous week) to figure out what to do next. Eaves are done and doored up; ceiling tile and metal sheets in place (still in fine-tuning progress, though); nearly finished with the shiplapping - though, thanks to my local large hardware store being out of the kind I was using (because I bought it all), I resorted to pre-painted at another large hardware store, just to make some semblance of progress on the walls (thankfully, it'll be fine, since we'd already decided the walls themselves will be black throughout). No clue when my solar folk will return to do the rest of their part. Soon, I hope: getting sick of extension cords.
About halfway done with the ship-lapping of the shed. No clue what the color will eventually be; I’m making this up as I go along.
Realizing only now that all of my building and construction projects these last several weeks have been my way of spending time with my grandfather, connecting: when I use his sawhorses, his vices, his saws, it’s like he’s helping me again, as he did for all of the 42 years, two months, and 26 days we had together. I miss him terribly.
Two desktops are built and resting on VERY temporary legs so I can figure how much more desk I need (two feet, give or take); for-really-real legs arrive tomorrow. Solar guys will start rough wiring the system next Wednesday so I can start drywalling by the end of next week. Might be working in here sooner than I expected - which, now that I've said it, means I'm not working in there until 2027.
