
Originally Posted by
Brian
Really appreciate everybody's feedback so far.
At this point, sounds like I'm going to ask them to skip texturing and do a rough paint-ready finish. Probably do a satin paint sheen to find a happy medium that's not quite semi gloss so it doesn't show every flaw but isn't at all flat. Bright white ceiling and very light grey (threw a sample of some SW "agreeable gray" on the wall and it looks almost white, so I think that might work).
Will look into ladder options. From what I'm seeing online, there are basic 22.5" options that are supposed to fit between the trusses and then a 25" that might mean they have to be cut and modified. A lot of people seem to say the 22.5" is too thin to be able to get normal cartons/boxes, etc. up there, but I'm assuming given the trusses are already questionable when it comes to a load perspective, adding more weight by cutting in and reinforcing a wider opening is probably a bad plan, or at least something that goes from simple to expensive / complicated pretty quick? Dumb question, but that pull-down string doesn't just hang there full time, right? I'm assuming there's a latch option or something?
Anybody mess with google sketchup for drawing up plans? I might give it a shot but might not have time to learn something new given I'm about to start on this fairly soon.