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 [...]

One of the last major demolition aspects of the basement buildout is the removal of the original utility shower in the basement. I guess utility showers were somewhat standard in 50’s construction of houses with basements. Though it probably wasn’t totally necessary to remove the original shower, we really wanted to because the new shower [...]

Today turned out to be a lot busier than we had anticipated. Started off running some errands, picking up some supplies so we could continue working on our basement project and a quick visit with my mom before returning home to start building walls for our basement restroom. We had also planned to mud the [...]