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So, the basement is basically done, but there's been one problem with the room. Despite it being one of the nicest (if not THE nicest) ro...

So we're still wrapping up the final stages of room construction (doors and trim) we actually got the pocket door that I made hung the ot...

So the guys we had come finish the floor were amazing. They got here at 8am on Tuesday and worked until 6:30pm. They were back in the mor...

When it comes to tiling, the answer is HARD. Now I've tiled before, but I've never been responsible for a whole room. I was still pretty ...

Doors, floor, and trim.... somehow this is the list of what remains to be done in terms of construction. It kind of seems unreal when I t...

I at least had the foresight when we started to realize that I wanted nothing to do with a drywall ceiling. I can deal with sanding a wal...

So one of the nice things about building a room from nothing is that when you're painting, you don't have to tape anything off. We wanted...

Getting the walls painted was a HUGE milestone in the basement reno. For the walls we decided to use Sherwin-Williams Agreeable Gray. I k...

All the houses in our area from this era had central heat/air put in much later. How anyone lived around here without AC is beyond me. Th...

The easiest part of hanging drywall is attaching it to studs. This leads to a false sense that it's going to be quick and easy. Let me te...

As unpleasant as it can be to spend hours in a drafty basement all winter, it's extremely gratifying to watch a room start to transform b...

After taking measurements for the room, Mr. Handy and I placed an order for the construction supplies that we needed for the basement tha...

Unfortunately I didn't take pictures of the finished floor once we leveled it, but you'll see it in future post where we're working on th...

My husband (who has decided that he would like to go by the alias Mr. Handy) was really excited about the prospect of tearing the basemen...

We knew from the start that the existing tile in the basement was asbestos tile (tip: if you have 8x8 inch tile in an older house, chance...

Our basement reno is a work in progress that we began about a year and a half ago. We bought our house in September of 2017. When we move...