April 2003:  when I first encountered the space it was hard to tell what it actually looked like....

September 2003:  when we moved in, it was still boxes and shelves in storage, just different boxes and shelves.

May 2004: using the big room for book processing...  note the mound of new boxes at top left in the photo on the right.

September 2004:  Carpenter Sal has fun building bookshelves...

and making more mess!
 

November 2004: the newly opened LitArts room

June 2005: with tables, chairs and rugs.  Note box mountain, draped in black.
Those yellow chairs are in front of the box mountain, neatly disguised as a book display island

Various events:  Karen Long came to speak for NOBS (after the meeting, on L), and Amy Steinberg gave a concert (R).

July 2005:  we had the floor cleaned (sorry, no pix of Dave Repicky and his machinery!),
and realized we would have to peel, scrape and sand the paint off the cement floor before we applied anything else to the floor.
It's the ivory paint we're trying to remove from the left half of the room.

August 2005:  that's about as good as it gets.  A few more events, and then SkimStone time!

First, the floor is cleaned (again) and cracks filled.  Then, bonding primer is applied.

Jenny Hitmar and Andrew Kaletta mix the colors and apply a first coat of SkimStone, mixing two reds together.

The finished first coat, and then lightening the tone with some sunflower yellow.

Of course we needed some purple accents, but they needed another blending SkimStone layer.

Here we are after the final clearcoat!

looking like a bookstore again

with restored baseboards, ready for a meeting, 09/21/05

NOBS Forum Show and Tell session, 9/17/05

Gene's Jazz Hot plays at the 10th Anniversary Party, 11/19/05

Amy Steinberg's performance, 2/11/06

Richard Gildenmeister talks to packed NOBS Forum, 3/18/06

that's the new HVAC unit, and the crane used to get it on the roof!  June 2007

Construction of new HVAC unit (yes, with air-conditioning!), June 2007