The key to building a house is balance. Balancing what you can dream up and what you can afford. During the design stage, we had to decide what options needed to be included now, and what we could live without or easily modify in the future. Specifically, we focused on structural and electrical options. But, needs change and it is difficult to predict the future -- even the near future.
When we started talking about our first renovation project -- adding an electronic dog door, we realized that we realized that we could put the dog door on either side of the back door OR in the laundry room. The only problem was that while there was electrical wire running near both sides of the back door, there was none on the wall in the laundry room.
Since we had this realization while the electrical crew was there, we stopped a poor soul and asked him for a favor. Initially he said that he could not add an extra outlet because it was not on the plans, so we would need to talk to his supervisor, who would be there the following morning. So, Jordan showed up the following morning, but the supervisor was not there. However, the man politely called his supervisor and let Jordan speak with him. Jordan explained that we had not initially requested the outlet, but would really like one in on that wall in the laundry room. Eventually, the supervisor agreed and now we have this:
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Then there are other projects that we have chosen to take on ourselves. While we are not as ambitious as our neighbor, who tried to completely insulate his garage in one night, we did run some speaker wires from the media room to the patio, so we can eventually have music outside.
Last night with Jordan's help, I crawled along these beams and placed speaker wires in the corners of the patio. We then ran the wires into the adjacent media room and left the wires hanging loose along the wall. When we are ready to install the speakers, we will simply fish the wires out of the wall and install the speakers. We hope this will be easier than running wire once the sheet rock is installed.
Since we had this realization while the electrical crew was there, we stopped a poor soul and asked him for a favor. Initially he said that he could not add an extra outlet because it was not on the plans, so we would need to talk to his supervisor, who would be there the following morning. So, Jordan showed up the following morning, but the supervisor was not there. However, the man politely called his supervisor and let Jordan speak with him. Jordan explained that we had not initially requested the outlet, but would really like one in on that wall in the laundry room. Eventually, the supervisor agreed and now we have this:
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Then there are other projects that we have chosen to take on ourselves. While we are not as ambitious as our neighbor, who tried to completely insulate his garage in one night, we did run some speaker wires from the media room to the patio, so we can eventually have music outside.
Last night with Jordan's help, I crawled along these beams and placed speaker wires in the corners of the patio. We then ran the wires into the adjacent media room and left the wires hanging loose along the wall. When we are ready to install the speakers, we will simply fish the wires out of the wall and install the speakers. We hope this will be easier than running wire once the sheet rock is installed.
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