Basement work

The basement is getting close to getting back to normal. I can't wait to have it done and not have to worry about it. I've had to patch and sheetrock most of the walls from 2' down. I still have to do the painting in the office room, laundry room, and Bailey's room, but only Bailey's room needs to be painted before we lay the carpet. Here are some pictures of the before and after progress.

Caiden's Room:

We had to blow insulation into the walls that were not cut open (there were a few of them) and lay rolled insulation in the walls that were cut open, then patch and paint. I didn't get any pictures of the before work, so this is just the finish stuff. Obviously we'll be adding carpet to the room too.



We lucked out with these blinds. They were the old blinds in the house and they just happened to be the same shade as the color of blue we picked out (we didn't even attempt to match because we weren't thinking about the blinds)


Bailey's room:

Again, had to blow in some insulation as well as patch in other areas.

Had to cut in these holes between each stud to blow in the insulation


This is what a typical section of lower wall patching looked like before


Here is an after shot






Office:

Again, blown insulation and wall patching. We're not sure what color we're going to do in this room, but probably whatever paint we have the most of left over will go in here






Family room:

This one took a lot of work. We completely sheetrocked one whole wall (24' long), so that took a while. I also removed our gas heating stove and framed over the old ugly rock wall. I cut holes in the vents above the ceiling so it will allow heat into the basement. I doubt it will be 100% effective, but it's something. By removing the stove, we are opening up a lot more room down here.










Sheetrock over the old rock wall. I am getting rid of the gas stove (too heavy to haul out myself) and we are going to put book shelves across this whole wall, with a little blanket box/seat underneath them.









Hall area

Just had a few corners and some wall damage here to fix.





We are going on Wednesday to pick out carpet for downstairs. I can't wait to get this done.