During the week starting on the 14th of March 2021 the XONIKZ Twitch channel will be streaming on weekdays between 7 and 10 PM EST. The focus will still be on loft renovation but will begin to bleed into the smaller decor projects near the end of the week. The Twitch XONIKZ channel might be […]

For the last several days, after work hours, I’ve been prepping the crawl space under the 100+ year old house brick and stone foundation for tuck pointing. Much of the work requires a heavy duty blower to push the dust out of the crawl space. I am wearing a heavy duty full face respirator while […]

Throughout the weekend, I’ve spent a couple of hours cleaning up the dust and insulation scraps from the loft space and then began stapling in the final sheet of the plastic vapor barrier to seal up the north wall and ceiling. Here are a couple of images from the progress being made on the loft […]

On Monday, while ripping a piece of 2×3 board down to 2×2, I cut my left index finger on the table saw. After bandaging, and cleaning up, and calling dad, and passing out from shock, and all the things; it’s healing. I’ve put the bigger barn and house projects on hold for a week while […]

Tonight’s stream on Twitch.tv/xonikz showed a little bit more progress on the art loft, or maker loft. The vision is starting to take shape. Ceiling insulation and vapor barrier were put in place on the western ceiling by the end of the stream with some work done on the half wall that separates the computer […]

Just a couple of months ago I rediscovered Twitch and began streaming a few projects and some art I was working on. I’ve had this web address rotting in a corner of the internet and decided to resurrect it this month to act as a hub for the content creator media and behind the scenes […]