Our living room is now fully functional. To get to this point we had to do tons of stuff:
* Clean and paint the walls and ceiling.
* Install two new electric circuits, one to replace the ancient ungrounded outlets and one fancy isolated-ground one for the entertainment center.
* Run a conduit through the empty space above the fireplace to allow all the wires from the TV to the electronics cabinet to be run without being seen.
* String speaker wire from the electronics cabinet, through the basement, and then up the far wall to attach the surround sound speakers.
We still need to get some new furniture, but the hard work in here is done.
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- Inside the walls – this project involved bringing up electrical wiring from the basement to the living room
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- Inside a 1918 outlet
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- This is some of the conduit and boxes I installed in the basement to replace the electrical outlets in the living room.
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- Knob and tube wiring to one of the old living room outlets.
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- Knob and tube wiring in the walls
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- Installing the wall mounting hardware
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- The wall mount bracket for the TV
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- The TV installed (and the room painted)
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- More of the living room, now with paint.
What a project! And I love looking inside the walls; just how much space between exterior and interior walls? The pic suggests as much as a foot? The living room looks great, can’t wait to see it!
Adam, do you have floor lamps? If not, maybe we could shop for some while in SF if you need them in the living room for reading etc.
The exterior walls have about 4 inches of open space, that picture that looks like it has a huge amount of space is actually an interior wall which does have almost a foot.
And currently not much in the way of floor lamps…