Construction - Week 2

Today begins week 2 of construction on our basement. We are making it into a family room. Well, one of our basements. Oddly enough we have two. Don't ask - it was like that when we bought the house. One basement houses our wash machine and a host of nasty little spiders, the other used to be all cement and...cinder blocks? I really have no idea. But hopefully by the end of this month it will be a livable, usable, comfortable space! I'm so excited!!




Pre-construction basement. As you can see, it's not a pretty sight. All that cement down there = very damp basement. We had to empty that dehumidifier at least 3 times per day. Next step: painting the nasty stained up floors. What fun. We did that ourselves. Actually, Hubby did that all by himself while I watched the boys. He's a wonderful man.






The next step was to hire a contractor to come in and do the framing, insulating, electrical work, drywall, and texturing. In other words, everything Hubby and I are incapable of doing ourselves. We prefer to stick to priming and painting.








As of Friday our basement has drywall but I haven't uploaded those pictures to my computer yet. That is for another day. I'll have more pictures as the weeks go by!