Ladies and Gentlemen, We Have a Pool Table!

He’s been working on his new Pool Room for quite a while now.

First, he had to remove all the totes, boxes, and whatnot, relocating them all into my craft room and/or the garage. My car got moved outside for the summer to make room for it all.

Then he had to work on the floor, getting it ready to install carpet tiles. While doing that, he decided that he wanted to paint the walls – which required a lot of prep work for that as well. And since the walls were getting a new coat of paint, that meant that all the outlet cover plates needed to be replaced so that they were white instead of the old dungy cream.

Our friend Jessica came over for the Painting Party, helping us get the job done in record time! Installing the carpet tile was a bit more involved, but he did a superb job – just like I knew he would.

All this renovating of walls and flooring made him look at the light fixtures, too (of course), so he replaced the old boxy fixtures with snazzy circular ones. These are even remote controlled with numerous different light settings.

The actual Moving of the Pool Table was a stressful event. He hired a professional mover who sent two guys out with their truck. He met them over at its original location, dismantled it, hauled it over to our house, and reassembled it – all within about a 3-hour time period.

Disassembling a pool table means that you have to put on new felt upon reassembling it. Because it is well over 40 years old, we went ahead and got new bumpers as well – if only to match the new felt. That whole process was a couple days’ worth of time, during which we also had them polish up the balls.

All that’s left to deal with now are the cue sticks! We have a pile of old ones that we can make do with for now, but eventually we will get new ones.

And of course, all those totes need to be put back in the room. We plan on going through everything and weeding out what we don’t need and consolidating what we keep into fewer totes.