Finishing the Basement
We've passed all our inspections and last week we had the rock hung and taped. Sunday night it looked like this.
Our view from the family room looking downstairs. We took out the door that used to close off the finished space from the unfinished and built a landing, with a double doorway that will eventually lead into a master suite.
From the master suite looking down to the lowest level. The bathroom is off the landing there, to the right.
The bathroom. In the back there will be a walk-in tile shower.
The lowest level. The outside walls were framed and insulated before we moved in.
Karl got a little help from Tim adding insulation to the interior walls, primarily for sound blockage. Baby got me out of helping on this one. The boys fashioned bandanas around their faces to block out the bits of fiberglass floating in the air.
This space will be my studio.
Looking into the laundry room.
Early Monday morning a guy showed up with drop cloths to protect our carpet from the workers and delivery men.
They stacked the sheetrock up against the walls. The sheetrock guys were in by 845 and gone by 2. They had it all cut and hung in around 5 hours. It would've taken us 3 weekends!!
So with sheetrock hung, view from the family room.
Looking into the bathroom.
In the master suite, looking down to the lowest level.
The lowest level.
We bought a baby gate, for Rocco! We needed to keep him out of the space during the work. You can see they've taped the rock they hung Monday.
Master suite looking down to lowest level. Bathroom on the right there.
The bathroom.
Lowest level. They worked all week, short ours with lots of drying time and when I got home for lunch on Friday they were all done! So Saturday we started to prime and paint all of it.
The bathroom. The shower walls will go up when the tiling starts.
View from the master suite looking down to the lower level.
The lowest level. Karl's Gopher room! We painted it maroon and gold. Trust me, it looks better than it sounds. ;P
View into the laundry room. What a DIFFERENCE a week makes!! We feel very proud that we got everything done this weekend. Now onto the floors!
We've passed all our inspections and last week we had the rock hung and taped. Sunday night it looked like this.
Our view from the family room looking downstairs. We took out the door that used to close off the finished space from the unfinished and built a landing, with a double doorway that will eventually lead into a master suite.
From the master suite looking down to the lowest level. The bathroom is off the landing there, to the right.
The bathroom. In the back there will be a walk-in tile shower.
The lowest level. The outside walls were framed and insulated before we moved in.
Karl got a little help from Tim adding insulation to the interior walls, primarily for sound blockage. Baby got me out of helping on this one. The boys fashioned bandanas around their faces to block out the bits of fiberglass floating in the air.
This space will be my studio.
Looking into the laundry room.
Early Monday morning a guy showed up with drop cloths to protect our carpet from the workers and delivery men.
They stacked the sheetrock up against the walls. The sheetrock guys were in by 845 and gone by 2. They had it all cut and hung in around 5 hours. It would've taken us 3 weekends!!
So with sheetrock hung, view from the family room.
Looking into the bathroom.
In the master suite, looking down to the lowest level.
The lowest level.
We bought a baby gate, for Rocco! We needed to keep him out of the space during the work. You can see they've taped the rock they hung Monday.
Master suite looking down to lowest level. Bathroom on the right there.
The bathroom.
Lowest level. They worked all week, short ours with lots of drying time and when I got home for lunch on Friday they were all done! So Saturday we started to prime and paint all of it.
The bathroom. The shower walls will go up when the tiling starts.
View from the master suite looking down to the lower level.
The lowest level. Karl's Gopher room! We painted it maroon and gold. Trust me, it looks better than it sounds. ;P
View into the laundry room. What a DIFFERENCE a week makes!! We feel very proud that we got everything done this weekend. Now onto the floors!
4 comments:
WOW! it looks wonderful.The Gopher room - we 3 are surprised. It is great! It will be fun to see the next stage!
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I always told Karl he could have the lowest level, or most of it, for his sports. For him that means a big tv, which he'll have to wait for, but it also means he'll get to hang all his STUFF, like that signed football jersey and all his ticket stubs from opening season at the new stadium. Maybe a family photo, if we're all in Gopher gear, might make it on the wall too. :)
That sounds like Christmas & B-D gift ideas & possibilities for a life time!
Wow, love seeing the transformation!! Thanks for sharing!!!! Can't wait to see the final results. too fun!
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