While the new speakers were very exciting, it required a little retrofitting in the rec room. If you look closely on the second picture, you might be able to see the new drywall I had to install under the soffit to accommodate the new speakers.
As to why I didn't plan on this from the beginning, I never anticipated using in-wall speakers. When I first priced them out the cost was not outrageous but it was just too expensive to justify, especially when I had perfectly fine speakers already. So I just planned on mounting my current speakers to the wall. Then, a week ago, I was checking out monoprice.com and was able to get 4 high quality, in-wall speakers, for less than 1 of the speakers I had originally priced. Cut to one week later and I am cutting holes in my recently finished drywall.
Since Sunday I have finished painting the office and it looks AWESOME.
I have also textured the rec room ceiling.
Texturing the rec room ceiling taught me three important lessons:
1) I still lack the consistency needed for texturing the walls
2) Use the bags of texturing mud instead of just thinned-down joint compound
3) Not taping plastic on all the walls and just planning on scraping any overspray of the walls is NOT a good choice. Cleaning up the walls takes way more time than just hanging plastic.
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