Attic to Play Room

Depends on how bad the mistakes are. Generally speaking, they become part of the character of a project, unless they are annoying mistakes, then they aggravate you until you rip it apart and re do it (I.E. my current workbench project…)

-- Trying to follow the example of the master.

I would love to do something like this. Did you have to raise the roof before?

-- If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail!

Nice job and great use of space !!

-- John in Belgrave ,(Slideshow http://cid-69bce320c6d8b119.spaces.live.com/ (Website) http://www.extremebirdhouse.com

My first project was a 7’x8’ entertainment center housing our TV, so you can imagine, it gets looked at quite a bit. There are so many things i would do differently now that i am more experienced. Those little mistakes and changes you might want to make do not go away.. at least not for me. I have a new entertainment center on my to-do list now.

I commend you on tackling an attic though, those can be tough to finish off well. Nice built in kneewall shelving too.

Congrats on the room.

As for the mistakes unless you point them out most people will never see them.

For me im like an elephant, I never forget.

-- Whether You Think You Can or You Think You Can't, YOU ARE RIGHT!!!

Nice job. Did you make the cabinets yourself

-- hardwood, South Carolina, http://www.palmettohardwood.com

Nice job, and as for the mistakes, I find that as time passes you begin to look at your own creation with more appreciation and you realize that the “mistakes” not only add character but they are things seen by only you the creator of the project.

-- Joanne, New York, www.creationhollow.com

Thank you all. Fortunately I did not have to raise the roof. If my stair well had been slightly smaller I would have. I just sneaked through on that one (kind of like the couch). Everything in the room is my doing except for the finish on the ceiling. A friend suggested that with the angles on the walls we were not going to get a nice crisp line, that it would be better to do a stamp on it. Didn’t think I was going to like it but it has grown on me. The bookcases are made with oak veneered plywood on the top, backs and sides with an adjustable oak shelf in the middle. We have a lot of books. The desk and the cubby hole doors were the last items made.