The Project

For those of you who are friends with me on Facebook, you may have seen our pictures of the progress of finishing our basement. But for those of you who haven't seen, here are some pictures of what we've been doing around the house for the past half year or so! :) Our basement already had a finished family room but we decided this year to finish the rest of it--two bedrooms and a bathroom. Jonathan did most of it on his own with the help of his dad, brother, and of course lovely wife! :) The only thing we had to hire done was the plumber and the carpet layers. Now that it is finished, we are loving it!!!! And it just looks so much better when you know that you were the one that put up that piece of drywall and spent hours upon hours of back-breaking work in completing it!

Framing...

I have lots more pictures of the drywalling and everything but I won't bore you with those. Instead we'll just go straight to the finished product:

Bedroom #1 aka the toy room!!

Bedroom #2 aka my parents' room! :)

The bathroom: I was sooo pleased with how this turned out! My husband was skeptical when I came home with this shower curtain but he let me have free reign and I think the color scheme turned out amazing!!

Here are just some pictures of what the rest of the basement looked like while we working:

And how it looks now!

Needless-to-say I was tired of living in this dump!

So much better!!

While his brother was here putting up the trim, we went ahead and had him make us this built-in bookshelf which is beautiful! If you are in our area and are looking for an amazing carpenter, I would highly recommend him! He does incredible work and is so fast and efficient!!
Yea!!!!! So happy to have it all DONE!!!!!!!!!! So now, if you want to come visit us, at least you know you'll have a room and bath of your own! :)