This past week has been a very productive week with our basement remodel. Today, the carpet layers finally came and laid the carpet in the den, computer and staircase of the basement. It’s a great motivator to get the baseboards down and some curtains on the windows as soon as possible. We’re so glad to [...]

Today, we finished installing the vinyl floor in the basement. This covers half of the square footage of the basement, the other half will be carpet. Since we had never laid this type of floor before, we were skeptical about taking on the task ourselves, but now, we’re glad that we did. We took our [...]

Even though it’s been a few weeks since we posted an update on our basement remodel project, it doesn’t mean that we haven’t been busy. The entire basement is painted now and we’ve been adding the finishing touches before the new carpet is installed. We spent most of the day installing the new vinyl flooring [...]

Just a few photos taken around the house this weekend. Our cucumbers are finally starting to grow, we’ll be picking the first batch in just a few days. We’ve also had many visits for the local squirrels. We put in a feeder a month ago or so and we have many visitors throughout the morning [...]

So today was another milestone on our quest to finish our basement remodel. We finished sanding the walls last night (so we thought), and we started getting the walls primed and ready for paint. The computer room, hallway, laundry closet and den are completely primed and ready for paint. However, we discovered that the kitchenette [...]