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 [...]

To say that this weekend was a very busy weekend would be a huge understatement. We took advantage of the great weather and got a lot accomplished in the basement. All of the plumbing is complete now. All of the old copper has been replaced with pvc. The only thing left to plumb is the [...]

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 [...]