Prepping for the carpet installation on Friday by finishing up some accent painting, installing vinyl flooring under where the bar will be, and working towards finishing up the ceiling.
I covered that one duct in the ceiling in the previous photo with cedar panels. The duct is flush with the bottoms of the floor joists, so in order to hold them up, I had to make some custom trim pieces that would support the panels on each side and get tacked to the floor joints. I did this by ripping a 1x4 into 1/2" strips on the table saw, then routered a channel to catch (and hide) the panel edges and rounded the other side on the router table.
So here you can see everything in place, I used a little adhesive to temporary hold the panels in place and then tacked up the trim piece over the panel edges. Came out pretty good.
Continued with the ceiling installation on the far side of the room, which won't have quite as clean of a look due to all the hvac ducts. I painted the old sheet metal ducts with the same hammered black enamel paint as the sewer and lally columns, it really cleaned them up nice. I have one newer round duct that I think I'm going to leave as is and not paint, the newer sheet metals seem to have a coating on them that makes painting them tough.
And here's a quick shot of the bar area, I went with a weather wood vinyl tile for under the bar. ~2/3 of the bar base will be a counter top over refrigerators, one for bottles & cans and another for the kegerator, so I needed a finished floor in this area for the fridges to sit on.
Updated sketch on the bar plan, I have a dimensioned sketch in the works as well:
Tonight will be taking off the door panels and clearing out for tomorrow's carpet install. Once that's in I'm taking a much needed break this weekend. :coffee: <- there will be lots of booze in that coffee lol