Dark Pines Studio/DM Mobile Blog

The tile is all but completed in the bathroom. The shower is completed as are all the wall tiles.  The only thing left are a few pieces of cap tile and the pieces to finish off at the door.
I need to get the door frame up so the tile contractor can finish up in the […]

I logged in over at The Womb yesterday about lunch time, as I usually do.
What I read stunned me beyond words…
A very dear friend had passed away….
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This is to let all those who knew him, that Peter Abrams, my brother, passed away this week, at the age of 54, at his home in Jacksonville FLA, […]

Progress!
I was out of town over the weekend to photograph a wedding for a friend, so nothing got done until yesterday.
The tile contractor is making some headway; The shower is done! Tile’s in and its grouted. He started on the walls yesterday. He got three walls tiled, and I imagine he’ll finish getting the tile […]

So much for backing off from the heavy stuff.
TheBoss and I went to get tile last night. The 12 small-ish tile squares for the bottom of the shower weren’t bad… It’s the 18 boxes of tile for the walls that were no fun.
I got help loading em’ in the truck… but there was no way […]

Well… I called the tile guy yesterday morning and left him a message that we were finally ready to start tiling the bathroom. I figured that it might take a week or two to get on the list.
WRONG!
He had an opening from another client how failed to confirm yesterday. So, he bounced right on over […]

Well, unfortunately help didn’t arrive yesterday, so it was a slow grind getting the bathroom walls up.
I managed to get most of the Hardibacker board up. I got slowed down a bit because someone (me) forgot to think ahead and charge batteries for the saws and drills to cut holes for the plumbing. (DOH!)
Each sheet […]

There’s no way that anyone can single handedly build a studio.
Amongst all the insanity, the one thing I’ve been kinda’ slack on is sayin’ “thanks”… and that ain’t right.
Thomas, Razor and G cubed, you guys are brave, and have been just crazy enough to step up to the plate and help. Thank you!
I know I […]

WOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOO!
WE PASSED THE INSULATION INSPECTION!!!
No one can imagine how good I feel right now…. I’m exhausted, beat up, itchin’ like a brillo pad, sore and I was bitten by a black widow spider last week… but I’m about sittin’ on top of the world.
Time to take a quick look around and see where I’ve […]

WHEW! I feel like a brillo pad…
Yesterday morning (Tue) I went to put up the last coupla’ pieces of insulation and the T50 stapler finally gave up the ghost and completely fell apart… bonus.
They were having a coupla fun issues at the day gig, and I had to run in there for a few hours. […]

Insulation scraps have a place in the corner…

As of yesterday…
All of the lounge is done. There are about a dozen pieces left… mostly small filler pieces in the mic locker and a couple of pieces on the west wall by the air return.
Before I close that all in, I’m going to drag a C12 and […]