Well, it’s been exactly a year since I began ripping out the walls in the train room. I’m a little disappointed in my progress as I wish I was further along, but at least I’ve made some great headway and I’m still moving on strong. The last couple weeks have been good – I finished painting all the cinder block walls, bought more supplies from Home Depot (including all my drop ceiling materials), and the paneling has started going up on the wood-framed walls! It feels good.So one big decision is that I will not be putting up new furring strips on the cinder block walls. Instead I’m going to leave them as-is, painted white. This came about after a conversation with Kelly who encouraged me to leave it alone and just get that benchwork started! My reasoning is along the lines that the room itself is not good for much else than a workshop, storage room or model railroad layout room! So, why not leave the walls alone? I also decided to leave the electrical box alone. I am not planning on any upgrades to the home in the next several years, so I can’t rationalize doing a heavy-up right now. That will save me about $1400 for the time being.

SO… in this new year I am off to a good start. I feel confident that the room will be finished and a lot of the benchwork (hopefully all:) will be up before this winter is done. Hooray! Pics of the progress are up in the Gallery.