Basement Remodel Part Deux

An update on our summer activities is on the way ... someday. We lost our camera for about a month, so we'll need to rely on our memories and some grainy Ipod pictures a bit more than we'd like.

In the meantime, I wanted to get up some early pictures of the second phase of our basement remodel. We began the summer with lofty goals, including drylok-ing and painting the second half of the basement walls and painting the second half of the basement ceiling. We accomplished the former, but, as we contemplated the later, weeks passed with visions of paint splatter covering everything filling our minds. We finally decided to bring in some local painters (the same two retired art teachers who painted the outside of the house a few years ago) to see how much it might cost to contract out the work. Their response: "this [first half] must have taken you FOREVER." They declined the job.

So ... phase two has morphed significantly. We currently have three guys grunting a lot while putting up sheetrock and insulation and lights in the second half of the basement. The good news is that, in the end, the boys should have a really nice space to play in, we'll have two new closests ... and I haven't spent the past two weeks inhaling black paint dust.