Friday, December 12, 2008

The End is Near!!

Well, the road to a finished basement has been a long one, but I'm proud to announce that the end is in sight! In fact, the finished date has to be by the end of the month because the top has been rented out for January to a seemingly nice family from the UK.

We just finished grouting the tile in the kitchen and the bathroom yesterday. The paint has gone onto the walls and carpet is being laid Monday. I can hardly believe that it's almost the end! What the heck am I gonna do with all the free time I will have next year?!?! Get ready for a lot of new book reviews and an updated recipe blog! Here are a few pics of our progress thus far...

Framing done by Nate and our good buddy Trevor! Thanks!

Drywall stage...so hard and heavy! The only part we didn't do was the mudding and taping.


To be the kitchen area...all tiled up. Time for cabinets!


The front door during the framing stage...


...the front door with drywall, paint, and a tile floor!! Yeah baby! We did that!

Bathroom before tile and drywall...

...the bathroom after tile and drywall! It's all coming together!

The coolest thing about this whole project is that Nate and I did like 95% of the work. Some of the tougher stuff we hired out but as for the rest...somehow we figured it out!! Carpet Monday!! Yipee!!