It’s Days 127 and 128 on the construction of the new facility and we can finally see that the end of our journey is in sight. Still have at least another month before completion, but we can now see the entire place really taking shape. The drywall, sanding and priming was all completed this past week so Friday we all headed over to do some base painting. Then on Saturday I had a big group of 8 show up to really get us far into the painting. Lots of photos to share!
Here’s the kitchen primed and ready to go.
Conference Room primed and ready.
Looking down the front hall.
Jenny gets started in the Machine Room.
Adrienne and her shadow in the Media Library
Jenny getting the Screening Room. Yeah, those are 10′ walls in that room to allow the ceiling to slope from 10′ to 9′ as part of the sound tuning of that room.
Contractor Joe McCabe popped by to check on the progress of the painting and go over the doors. John is working the base coat in Edit 4.
Jenny working the upper color in Edit 1. Every edit suite has a theme, that’s the way I’ve always done them in my facilities. The themes will be revealed as the painting continues…..
John working the bottom color in Edit 3. Part of my “Painting with Shadows” series.
Adrienne working the second color in the Media Library. We made the library some nice natural, warm colors.
Joe working a base coat in the Conference Room. We’re planning to put corkboard all around this room to make it easy to hang storyboards and other planning materials for features, tv shows and projects in general.
We had plenty of the conference room color left over so Joe went into one of the bathrooms with it….
John getting the second color going in Edit 3.
On Saturday Rebecca joined in, here she is working on Edit 5.
Base coat down on my office. We’re recreating the Wally World theme of my current edit suite, but I’m taking that theme into my office this time.
Edit 3 with the famous “18% Grey Wall” in the front. While we’re having fun with all the themes, we are still creating professional edit suites and to that end, the front wall of each room is a standard 18% grey to allow a neutral field of view for all the monitors. You want this neutral color so that your eyes properly see the colors on the screens.
Screening room completed with the base coat. On the left side of the picture is the 18% grey wall which is the front of the room.
Looking down the side hallway. The hallways area all a natural sand / almond type of color. Will go great with the flooring.
The kitchen from almost the same angle as before. Might be hard to tell, but the kitchen does have a light grey now and you can see the sand / almond color out in the hallway.
Looking down the front hallway as Rebecca surveys 2 days of awesome work by everyone who helped out!
Somehow we did not take out the camera while everyone was there on Saturday. No clue how that happened. But we need to thank Roger Mahr, Tyler Mahr, Chris Tompkins, Randy Lockey, Heather Lockey and Quinn Lockey for coming out on Saturday and really helping us out. We only have three rooms left with no paint on them and we never could have gotten that far without their help and of course my incredible team of John, Adrienne and Jenny! Now we have a little bit more base coat left and then on to detail work, floors and ceiling!