Basement Update...

ITS FINISHED!!! ... At least, one room is. We finished our basement living room. The 'stink room' is no longer stinky!

The bar is completely finished, it is NOT shown finished in the picture below but I have had little time to take any more pictures.

Bar, it looks SOOOO awesome.
The walls. They look a little weird in these pictures...

This is how the upstairs looks without the couches! I love it so much more! I think its about time for a new dining table.... lol

I will update soon with the final pictures of everything.

Basement Day 1ish

Day 1 of the Basement is complete. I guess this is technically day 2 buuuut the first day it was only worked on for about an hour. This was a complete DAY.

Here are some pictures of our accomplishments of the day and also things we want to tackle tomorrow...

The floor of the stink room!!! It's awesome!
Where the closet used to be. Tomorrow we are putting some drywall up.
The hole where the counter will go.
The light switch that we are replacing. ICKY!
Yet another ICKY... We are going to replace this too. With white.

One last thing... We have decided to not paint the whole basement 'Roasted Nuts'.... Since the walls are already textured ugly we are going to retexture and stain. But thats a whole other project in itself.

Ruthie is a Certified Caregiver....

I told my mom today that Ruthie (our Rat Terrier) is a certified caregiver so I was leaving Amir home with her today. That is not the truth.

Anyway, the reason for posting this blog today is to inform you of what our plans are for the weekend....

Tomorrow we are going to put some other type of flooring into the stink room downstairs. Not before knocking out the closet and some space underneath the stairs. Thats where our washer and dryer will go. I'm really excited to get started.

After everything is knocked out and floor intact we are going to install the granite counter top. Thats right... We got a granite counter top! I ♥ ksl!

I will post pictures up as soon as everything is all finished! And if it takes a long time I will give updates as we go!

Mad House

We started another project today. That's right, ANOTHER. Remodeling the bathroom was not enough for us! We have moved on to the basement! Today with the help of Mason and Caden, we moved everything out of the stink room and ripped up the carpet and knocked a partial hole in the wall. So far the plan is to make it into a little "bar" type thing.

For those of you who don't know what the stink room is I will explain... The stink room is the spare bedroom in the basement that has (or had) carpet. It was stinky because Jasper used that as his potty before we got the doggy door and before he was potty trained. He's still not fully potty trained so we lock both dogs in the basement while we are gone/at night. From the basement they can get to the doggy door. In a nutshell: The room reeked of dog.

Anyway, the plan for the basement is this: Knock out the closet and the wall and make it into more living space in the basement.. We have more plans for the basement but for now, that is all we are taking on. But we also have to put tile down in the room where we tore up the carpet. That's right, I talked Rich into doing full tile! I'm really excited.

Funny side story: Like I said we had Mason and Caden (Rich's nephews) over and they helped us pull the carpet up and knock out the wall. There were some injuries along the way. First, Mason wanted to punch a hole in the wall. We let him and eventually he cut his hand open. Then he wanted to jump kick the wall, again we let him and instead of jump kicking it he jumped straight up and hit his head on the ceiling and landed on the ground. Then, Caden was pulling up the little peices of wood that have the nails in it to hold the carpet in place... One flew up and hit him right under the eye. THEN, Mason was hammering a nail and somehow got his finger caught between the nail and the hammer. It cut it open and blood sprayed out. I have to restock my bandaids!

This project is going to take a lot longer than the bathroom. But I think its going to turn out really awesome! Here are some pictures so far of the progress:

After pulling up the carpet.

Wall, before.

Closet

Wall, after. Looking out into the living area.

Wall, after. Looking into the stink room.

The three paint colors... Macchiato, Elephant Skin, Roasted Nuts. We cant decide which we like best for the walls. I think we will probably go with Roasted Nuts..

Upstairs Bathroom! (finally finished!)

We decided to somewhat remodel the upstairs bathroom.

We are:

• Painting
• Redoing some of the plumbing
• Moving the sink where the toilet is
• Moving the toilet where the sink is
• Replacing the tile

Here are some BEFORE, DURING and AFTER pictures:

[read the captions below the pictures]

BEFORE:

Standing in the door way looking in to the right.
The wall to the right next to the toilet.
Standing next to the shower looking at the sink.
Standing in front of the toilet. Facing it.
Ugly white tiles.

DURING:
The sink and toilet are hanging out in the tub. The tile has been torn out.
Where the sink used to be.
Above where the toilet was.
Where the mirror was.
Toilet
Gross floor
Behind the door
The door is to the right.
Where the old vent was.
New Toilet hole
Old toilet hole. You can see the laundry room from up there... lol
Painting.


New tile. Rich laid the tile and then I did the grout.

New tile!!!
The sink and toilet are still hanging out in the tub!
AFTER:
The toilet and sink are in!
Woot woo!

The blue looks sooo much better.

Needless to say, we wont be taking on a project like this for a while. Even though the end result was awesome! Our weekend job turned into almost a whole week!!