Fiber Optic Star Ceiling Pictures

Thank you very much! I didn't expect such a fast reply :)

Is there any way you can post up a pic or two of the crow's nest and stairs? I think that's freaking cool. I originally thought you were just going to leave the hole in the ceiling (spiral stairs never came to mind).

Looks like the home theater will be a fun project. Are you doing the completion yourself? Are the lower front windows on the house where the theater is? Did you just block those windows off or something on the inside of the theater permanently? I've never seen that done before, and I love how you can't even tell those windows are non-functional from the outside of the house.
 
Beautiful house.... I'm thinking of moving to oregon or washington wjen I retire... what is the weather like? Also how big is your house and how epensive is the area? Down here in the Bay Area a home that big would most likely be over $2 mil.

Today the weather was wet and windy, tomorrow is forecast for wet.... I'm a California transplant, 1982. Grew up in Livermore, then spent 4 years at Travis AFB. We have three navy bases within 15 miles of each other, after being stationed here, quite a few come back and retire. It's nice place. Cooler and wetter winters then the bay area. Cooler summers, Seattle has hit 100 degrees only once.

The main house is ~5000 sq ft, the garage is 1500 sq ft up and 1500 sq ft down. Over the garage we have a guest bedroom, bath, portrait studio and my workshop. The barn doors on the end were for hauling up my tools and getting other things in and out.

Until last year, we were cheap compared to California. :) We have 3.5 acres upland and 2.5 of tidelands. The county appraised the property at $550k. My wife builds custom homes, we got a lot of good deals from the subs, our hard costs on the structures was about 1.1m. The insurance company wants us to maintain 2.5 million on it.

For comparison, here is a shot of our previous house (in near 360 degrees). It a two story with a daylight basement, about 3000 sq ft. The detached garage has another 400 sq ft finished upstairs and a bath and kitchenette roughed in downstairs. We are hoping to get $450k-$475k for it. Want to put a down payment on it? :P

Brian
 
Thank you very much! I didn't expect such a fast reply :)

Is there any way you can post up a pic or two of the crow's nest and stairs? I think that's freaking cool. I originally thought you were just going to leave the hole in the ceiling (spiral stairs never came to mind).

Looks like the home theater will be a fun project. Are you doing the completion yourself? Are the lower front windows on the house where the theater is? Did you just block those windows off or something on the inside of the theater permanently? I've never seen that done before, and I love how you can't even tell those windows are non-functional from the outside of the house.

I'll try and snap a couple pictures of the stairs tomorrow. My son and I have done the bulk of the work on theater, and we are trying to get it finished.

Yes, the windows on the front of the house are located behind the theater stage. I don't like the look of a big blank wall. The theater is done with two sheets of 5/8" drywall with a sound absorber called "Green Glue" sandwiched between. The drywall is screwed to metal hat channels that are anchored to studs with RISC sound isolating clips. The windows have two sheets of 5/8" plywood over them, with the green glue. We hung curtains and some other foo foo stuff my wife wanted on the windows before we sealed them up. Over the plywood is 1" duct liner. I don't think we will change the drapes anytime soon.

Brian
 
Beautiful house.... I'm thinking of moving to oregon or washington wjen I retire... what is the weather like? Also how big is your house and how epensive is the area? Down here in the Bay Area a home that big would most likely be over $2 mil.

Today the weather was wet and windy, tomorrow is forecast for wet.... I'm a California transplant, 1982. Grew up in Livermore, then spent 4 years at Travis AFB. We have three navy bases within 15 miles of each other, after being stationed here, quite a few come back and retire. It's nice place. Cooler and wetter winters then the bay area. Cooler summers, Seattle has hit 100 degrees only once.

The main house is ~5000 sq ft, the garage is 1500 sq ft up and 1500 sq ft down. Over the garage we have a guest bedroom, bath, portrait studio and my workshop. The barn doors on the end were for hauling up my tools and getting other things in and out.

Until last year, we were cheap compared to California. :) We have 3.5 acres upland and 2.5 of tidelands. The county appraised the property at $550k. My wife builds custom homes, we got a lot of good deals from the subs, our hard costs on the structures was about 1.1m. The insurance company wants us to maintain 2.5 million on it.

For comparison, here is a shot of our previous house (in near 360 degrees). It a two story with a daylight basement, about 3000 sq ft. The detached garage has another 400 sq ft finished upstairs and a bath and kitchenette roughed in downstairs. We are hoping to get $450k-$475k for it. Want to put a down payment on it? :P

Brian

Wow, that's amazing! I love how the barn doors are functional, haha. Did your wife design this house? If so, she did an excellent and thorough job covering EVERYTHING (including some cool stuff for you :) )
 
Wow, that's amazing! I love how the barn doors are functional, haha. Did your wife design this house? If so, she did an excellent and thorough job covering EVERYTHING (including some cool stuff for you :) )

She designed most of it, but not the really cool parts :o

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