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I will get to how I saved over $700 part in a bit, but first I need to show you our cork floor. When I shared all the finishes I chose for the basement, I showed you a small sample of the cork floor. Here [...]
Do you watch Design Star or the new white box challenge show? Well, we have our own ultimate white box challenge going on over here. Instead of about 100 sq feet of blank white…we have over a 1,000 sq feet!!! Not sure we will get as conceptual as they encourage on the show, but we [...]
We were presented with a bit of a challenge in the basement bathroom. We asked the builder to take out the linen closet in the bathroom floor plan, opting for a more open space. Unfortunately, there was a large plumbing pipe in the corner we had to work [...]
The drywall stage of our basement finishing project is the most exciting part of the project so far! I was very excited when the framing was complete, but that excitement pales in comparison to seeing drywall hung in our new space.
You start to get a hint of how the space is [...]
Once we settled on our ideal basement layout and finalized the bedroom and bathroom configuration, the framing plans were pretty straight-forward. One area we paid special attention too was the soffits. Basements routinely end up with lots of soffits and awkward [...]
Even though our basement was unfinished with only basic plumbing rough-ins, the builder had a layout plan in mind for the basement. Based on where the plumbing rough-ins were, we were able to determine the builder’s intent for how to finish the basement. The builder’s vision, or lack there of, would have resulted in this [...]
A basement project is big, so big it took us almost two years to get ready. We loved the potential of our walk-out basement when we bought our house. We were not financially ready to tackle the project right after buying the house, but the delay was a blessing in disguise.
We were able to [...]
The day has finally come..and gone actually. On Monday, our basement finishing project officially began. We have been working with a contractor to design the space since last fall, but just recently signed on the dotted line to start the work. The project literally started with a bit of ground-breaking. The first order of business [...]
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