Fly tying/rod building room remodel

[Steeldrifter 0]

nightfish's post about a floor in his tying room inspired me to do this....plus since I quit smoking 11 days ago I found I have all this pent up energy now So I decided to take on a task thats been a long time coming, redoing the floor in my rod building/tying room. The floor in there was this old nasty green tile from the 1950's that not only looked like :poop: but half the tiles were broken and the cement from underneath was showing in many places. Heres what its looked like for the past few years

 

 

 

 

And now I have all the old tile ripped out and the new floor down, as well as the bottom 30" of the walls painted in hunter green. Still have alot of trim work to do as well as other stuff, but its coming along slow but sure.

 

 

 

I'll post some more pics when its done

 

 

Steve

[Guest]

Damn, Steve that looks like a different room. Lookin good, man! :headbang:

[Isonychia 0]

I'm envious, Steve -- both of your energy and the way the room looks!

 

John

[AK-Edge 0]

That looks great! I cant wait until I move somewhere that I have room for a room like this.

[Matt Inman 0]

Looks really good. I can see more rods in the rack than at most fly shops!

[Guest]

Good looking floor Steve. Did you use real hard word or the laminent wood floor?

 

Jim

[Al Beatty 0]

Hi Steve,

 

First and most important, congratulations on quitting smoking. I quit 22 years ago and have never been sorry. The room looks great! Take care & ...

 

Tight Lines - Al Beatty

www.btsflyfishing.com

[Steeldrifter 0]

Thanks guys.

 

 

Jim- Its a vynil floor covering. Easy to maintain and not very costly.

 

 

 

Al- wow 22 yrs :headbang: hopefully I'll be able to say that some day as well. I had tried to quite a number of time but recently I picked up the "patch" and so far its working great for me. Havent had more than a passing thought about a smoke, and my energy level had tripled. Not to mention the cough is starting to go away and I can actually go up&down the stairs now without being out of breath

 

 

Steve

[DeerhairTom 0]

 

Oh crap, I knew I forgot something. Congradulations on quiting smoking. I quit in '89 after smoking 26 years, and never looked back. I chose the cold turkey method. I just never lit up again. I am not saying I didn't have cravings, I simply ignored them. Get an urge, get busy doing something. If the urge gets really strong, go hang out with another nonsmoker till the urge passes.

 

Great looking room by the way.

 

DeerhairTom

[pickin6ofem 0]

Good luck SD I need to Quit as well. I quit for two years and one night at a party I lit up again and it's been on ever since. Good looking floor

 

[sandflyx 0]

Nice floor, and congrats on quiting, i did 6 years ago when they cut my chest open and havent looked back..

[Steeldrifter 0]

Well got under the bench and the back wall under the bench painted today. Also got a way cool fly fishing border to go at the top of the green on the walls at the store today, and put in some wood base boards. Still have alot to do but Its getting there

 

[Steve P 0]

Absolutely a total transformation there I love ahwt you've done with it really classy now if you would just move out and leave all your stuff for me I'll be there with my boxes shortly.

Steve

[nightfish 0]

Nice! I like the lodge feel you've got going. I think I've decided I'll be doing a hardwood look of some sort.

 

I'm a year & 2 weeks without smokes now. I feel much better, but I need to work on a fitness program to get rid of the no-smokebreak-munchies layer I've put on. I'm sure working on a basement will help with that. That, and the new place is a bike ride from a nice reservoir, and I'm 5 driving minutes from 2 streams.

[Steeldrifter 0]

Well just about got this section done. Although after the holidays I have decided to built an interior wall in the basement which is gonna divide the basement in half so I will have double the room then :headbang:

 

 

Here it is right now.