Scott you're doing it up right- running all the wires in the walls is the only way to go. I have no cables/wires showing anywhere- everything is thru the walls/ceiling.

yeah I just hope the tv hides the retro boxes once it's mounted.

Does that pic show your 2 bys anchored into the concrete?

it will.


yeah. not much of a gap (1"), so they are primarily just for filler between the concrete and drywall. I'll be using those 1/2" concrete anchors and just drilling through the "studs"


I also had to rip off all that paint around the hole on the left....some sort of water penetration that never dried and the paint sealed it in and was a big bubble.

good job man!

the only other thing is you'll want to get a "nose plate" from Home Depot for the equipment side retro box. And pull the cables through the nose plate before you hook them up to the equipment. I forget to do that about once a month, and get to yank out all the wires and start again. :gay:

and you dont like those pink walls?! (yeah it's really pink, looks taupe in the pics, the stripe is like a maroony tera-cotta :td:)

dude the house I bought had salmon pink, yellow, hemi orange, dark green, light green, and purple walls. Some rooms got special 2 tone treatments. And grass green carpet. :crx:

Let's just say I had to paint the entire house and get new carpet in all carpeted rooms. (the wood and tile floors are OK, though I had to knock out the tile shower in the master bath cuz it looked like shit).

my house had ivey green walls... because the ivey was growing inside of it through the old windows :gtfo:

it's been in the 60's and 70's now for two weeks and I still have 8"+ of snow in the front yard.
Yesterday I cleaned the garage, tok everything out and swept, hosed, scrubbed with degreaser and hosed again.

picked up a new 450lb gunsafe by myself

and cleaned my office.

Hell, no wonder you want that machine gun.

you'd think the dirty fuckers I bought it from would help load it but NOOOO they wheeled it out on a pallet jack and then all dissapeared.

lol, :pitlab: whats a bunch of jackasses

sorry camera phone:

Is that the Panasonic 50"?

yeah.