At one point I was in a room that looked like our guest room, (at the X) and I was near a closet, or maybe a small room where the air conditioner/heat unit was sitting, and I was looking around in this little cut out in the wall. I had picked up a bit of the dry wall compound and was playing with it. It had hardened up a little bit so it stayed intact when I picked it up, but it was soft enough that you could form it. I looked closely at it, and I noticed that it had fibers in it, kind of like fiberglass or nylon. The main person leading the renovation was there, and I asked him about it, and he said that I was correct. I rolled it into a hot dog shape and put it back into the hole in the wall that it came from. I laid it on it's side, and then squished it flat over the seam I had pulled it off of in the first place.
We then left that room and turned right up the hallway. At the end of the hallway was a very large room. It was the master suite. That room was mostly finished, and the guy leading me around (who seemed to remind me a bit of Tony Danza now) was talking about this room. I went off to the left, and I noticed that this room was painted a cream color, and there was light blue carpeting in place. There was a brick area in the middle of this part of the room, and though it took me a little bit, I recognized it as a fire place. In front of it was a bed. I thought it was really odd that the fireplace was in the middle of the room like this, and so I bent down and got on my hands and knees between it and the bed to look up into the opening and see the flu. For some reason I didn't really want to look into the darkness above, so as I bent down and started to look in, I asked Tony whether or not this was a fire place. He said that it was, and he seemed very happy about it.
At this point there was a woman there with him, too, but I don't know who it was. While I was down on the floor, I noticed that one of the bricks on the face of the fireplace seemed to be aligned wrong. It should have stuck out about a half an inch, lining up with the others to the right of it, creating a kind of lip or hood that stuck out a little from the face of the fireplace. I reached up to touch it, and the brick moved. I realized that it wasn't secured in place, and that it was only being held up because of being wedged in there. The mortar had come lose from the sides of the brick.
I mentioned this to Tony, and he didn't seem to think it was a big deal. I thought to myself how if I were putting this together for the mob, I would think it was a big deal to get everything right because I might be killed if I didn't. I wound up pulling the brick out and laying it on the carpet. I then noticed that the two bricks that were to the left that that one were also loose. I pulled those out and sat them all on the carpet. I told Tony that I'd leave them there so that they could see them and fix them. He thought that was a good idea, and then we moved on.
We went to the front area of this room, which reminded me of my old room that was downstairs in Grandmamma's house. Tony stopped me in front of the closet. There was a dresser there in front of the closet door that was at least four feet tall, and there was already a bunch of decorations on it. They were things like candles and bricks.
Tony said something like, "Hey, check this out!" and he grabbed a remote. It had been fairly dark in here up to this point, but when he clicked the remote, a 42 inch plasma TV that was hanging right above the dresser came on. He had told me about his plans to do this somewhere earlier in the dream. When he showed me, I thought it was pretty cool, but then as I continued to look at it, I realized that the picture was all funny. It was like the screen was too light, but there was a problem with the "darkness threshold", and places where it should gradually go into black, like dark shadows and whatnot, had harsh lines around them. I remember noticing that they were using DirecTV when he first clicked it on. I don't remember what was on TV, but it was something that was outside, and it seemed to be maybe a western, or just something taking place outside in a desert like area. The movie seemed kind of old, and I wondered if that was the reason why the TV seemed to not be able to handle the color gradation.
When he was done, he turned off the TV. I noticed that there had been bricks placed in front of it to hide the TV when it wasn't in use. I was trying to situate the bricks back into place, but they didn't seem to cover the TV very well. There were only five bricks, and they were supposed to be standing on end. The TV had shrunk way down. The brick that was supposed to stand in the middle was longer than the others by 50%. I finally realized that this brick had some hooks on it, and there was a hook or hinge on the wall that it was supposed to sit on while the hook on the side of the brick latched around the right side of the TV. I was worried about scraping up the screen while I was putting the bricks back, but there was something there was was preventing me from doing it, and I was glad about that. The last thing that I needed was for Al Capone to be mad at me for scratching up his TV.
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