There was one more electrical item to cross off the list for the orange room (literally, we keep a list going on the iphone/ ipad at all times) – the intercom. Gaping black hole, wired & roughed out weeks ago. Here’s Rob’s iphone pic of my iphone taking a pic of the hole:

We’ve posted the process before but basically you run the cat5 wire then pull the end apart:

Then wire it up to the speaker and attach it to the metal frame in the wall:

Speaker/intercom, light switches, fan control. We moved the programmable thermostat to our bedroom during this project “since the hall ceiling was open”. After:

It always looks worse before it looks better, and in this guest room at least, it’s starting to look better!