June 2007, we started busting out our basement walls
I have really been itching to do a post on our basement remodel, which has been a huge and exciting part of our life for, well, at least a year and a half. This week, our contractor hopefully wraps up the permit inspection snafus and I can pay off our last bill in good conscience. I have a mess of light fixtures to hang, but seemingly never have a good time to cut the power and do it. (I am so paranoid that I like to turn off the power to the WHOLE house when I wire light fixtures. Okay, so I have only wired one light fixture in my life, but I have 9 down there, so soon I will be impressive… just you wait!). Anne has finished most of the painting and done a really nice job. We used up all the weird bits and pieces of paint left over from all over the house, and it worked out well. My excellent uncle Rick is working away on doors, trim, and cabinets, applying his extreme attention to detail to all sorts of details that I hadn’t thought of! He is the best person to have doing this work; so creative, so talented, so PICKY. And I mean that in the best way. You want your carpenter to be picky.
I haven’t taken our final pictures yet, as we are just crawling toward finishing the work down there, and I want to get the best possible shot. I will do a compare and contrast though, as the before pictures are truly shocking. Gross, actually. I love remodeling though. Come spend a night in our guest room. You can sleep just about where my hammer is in the picture.
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