We had a pretty busy pre-spring weekend. The nice weather motivated us to get out and do a little spring cleaning. We washed down the front of the house, removed the 4 shutters, sanded them, repainted them and get them back up before dark. We managed to make time for the dogs to run around [...]

This project started in mid September 2008. A complete remodel of our basement, new walls, new plumbing, new electrical, etc. Since we’re doing this ourselves, we allocated 2 years to complete the project. So we’re hoping to be completely finished by the end of September, 2010. Based on estimates, we figure that we’re saving about [...]

Ok, haven’t posted any updates for the past couple of weeks as work in the basement has been slow because of Lenora’s back problems and me being sick for the past 5 days. However we have managed to make a lot of progress in between our ailments. All interior walls in the basement are completely [...]

We’ve spent the past 2 weekends building out the new bathroom in the basement. Last week, we had the original shower window blocked up and started framing in the new shower, closet and walls in the basement bathroom. In the next week or so, we want to start tiling the shower and one wall of [...]

Well, with the dawn of a new year and the temperature outside a cold 21 degrees, we decided to start working on the basement again after a 2 month break. We actually seem to get more work done in the basement in the winter than we do in the summer, maybe because there’s nothing to [...]