Day 55-59: The Home Stretch

[I'm writing this post Grand Opening+6 days and so my memory of the facts may be a bit fuzzy. But you'll get the gist of it.]

I never thought it would take this long. I always thought it would be more incremental and less Big Bang. But there you have it.

Will It Ever Be Finished???

The drywall I mean. It seems to go on forever but Monday it finally wrapped up. And we can pull out the stops on the color painting. And there is lots. So the color scheme for the Conference Room, Office/Flex Rooms and Phone Rooms is Benjamin Moore Pool Party Blue. The outer color for the Kitchen is Benjamin Moore Yosemite Blue. And we got that painting mojo working! We had members and friends come out in force. It felt a little dicey early in the week as we put out the call for help and got crickets. But by Thursday the painting machine was really rolling.

Happy Dance!

Preston came by to install our window signs on Wednesday. OMG! To see, to actually see, the logo and words go up were amazing! I was happy dancing in the street. C4 Workspace was no longer an idea, it was a real, live, actual place! (On Friday morning Dan Hong� did some magic and applied some frosted material behind the logo graphics on the doorss. We’ll do the same frosted material behind our slogan words.)

Meanwhile, Over at the Miter Saw

I escaped the painting aspect of the finish out pretty much. But I did have carpentry duty. We had the bar top to install and window trim for the Conference Room and Flex/Office Room to install. On Thursday I was pretty much left to my own devices as I finished those projects. The window trim was mighty fun. Our floor has character, which is to say it is not level — anywhere. We did a fairly reasonable job of getting the walls level. So I followed our member, and semipro painter, Steve’s advice: “It doesn’t have to be good it just has to look good.” (This is also an old TV set design axiom.) So trimming out the windows was less an act of precision and more an act of persuasion which would lead to a perception of perfection. They look good and they’re done!

“Your Moving and Storage Specialist!”

We tapped our buddies at UHaul again. We didn’t really move anything. We kind of just relocated some stuff temporarily. Grand Opening on Friday was approaching quickly. The drywallers had left a veritable mountain of trash. And we had paint cans and old furniture and tools and what have you. And no place to put it. Debbie came up with the idea of renting a small UHaul truck and tucking it away for a day or two while had the grand opening. Brilliant! The truck got packed and then tucked away behind the building neat as a pin!