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 [...]

The past few days have been spent mudding the walls in the basement in an attempt to get it completely finished in the next coming weeks. We still have the bathroom to finish (tile and drywall), but that’ll have to wait until we a new stackable washer and dryer. But for now, we need to [...]

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 [...]