Remodeling my reptile room

[Spookychief]

I just did a crapload of plastering today nothing really exciting to share at the moment. I plan to get all the plastering done and the walls sanded this week. After I get all the plaster finished I'm going to paint the room. Then I'm going to get all the plywood cut down on Wednesday and start laying that this weekend hopefully. Anyway thanks for all the comments and if anyone has questions or other great ideas feel free to share.

I had a cheap single pane window in my snake room. I found some real thick Styrofoam insulation, probably 2-3 inches thick, the pink stuff, I think it's used for houses. I cut it to size and duct taped around the edges. It holds heat as well as an outside wall. I just draped a blanket over it and put a snake rack in front of it LOL. Can't even tell it's there. Someday I'll replace the window with a double pane.

For my snake room I also used 'luxury vinyl flooring'. You can get it a Home Depot. It's basically strips of rubberized flooring that you can snap together, don't even need to glue them down. You can easily cut it with tin snips. It's pretty expensive but I got lucky and found it on sale for 75% off. I put it directly on the concrete floor and it insulates so well the floor stays warm from the space heater, pretty amazing stuff.

It took me a few days just to do my floor and it wiped me out too, I was a lot more sore than I thought I was going to be. I think with the excitement of building something new you tend to push yourself hard until you have to take a break LOL. Your room looks good so far!

Ya, i like the insulation idea but I still want my windows to function lol. I would have liked to do a laminate or vinyl floor but you don't get much square footage for your money. I have watched how people have laid plywood flooring and plywood is cheap and can look really nice...if I cant get it to come out right. It is funny how much time and effort I'm putting into this little project and how much pain I'm willing to endure to see it finished. I know that it's going to look awesome and my wife is going to be jealous of the space so I know she will be talking me into redoing her studio next.