Guest Bedroom

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Basement: Hall and closets

David was great and built me LOTS of storage, which is one of my favorite things about the basement. Here are two of the closets - we also have some storage under the stairs and in each bedroom.

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Before, Storage Room:

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Utility Closet before:

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Basement: Family Room

I have a ton of pictures of our new basement, so I'll post it in parts.

I still have pictures to hang, and light fixtures to mount, but I'm so happy with what we have.

This is our Family Room!

Here is the before:

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And these are the BEFORE before pictures, just so I can remember how much work was done:

More pictures tomorrow!

Finished!

Happiness is a finished basement.

More pictures to come soon, I'm busy decorating.

Upholstery Class - part 2

I finished my chair!

Old original D.I. find:

New and improved platform rocker:

And a sneak peek at the fabric I am using for my next prjoject:

You know you might be tired. . .

... when you

• fall asleep in primary, as a teacher, in the front row. Then while asleep hear the lady doing sharing time ask all the moms to raise their hands. So you raise your hand and wake up, only to realize she was talking about the 5 year old girl, who was playing a mom in her sharing time activity.
• go up to the pulpit to say a prayer, and once you get back to the pew you see that you have a button on your blouse undone and your skirt zipper is also not zipped up. Its been like that during all of church.

It has been a rough week and even rougher weekend, but we are so much closer to our basement being done. Saturday my whole family came over and my dad finished touching up the drywall and mudding and taping in the two basement bedrooms, and we primed, painted and got in fights. Jasper was concerned about the sisterly fighting until I assured him it was "normal."

I made an ambitious (dumb) goal of scheduling the carpet in our basement to be laid this coming Friday. I figured that if I scheduled it then we would just have to bust our butts and my dream basement would be finished!! Although we worked really hard, we still have one whole room to touch up, prime and paint, some closet shelves for David to build, a ceiling to finish painting and more. So... I might have to call and reschedule the carpet guys. Ugh.

I guess if I've waited this long what is one more week, right?

This little guy thinks mommy is slowly

going crazy with all

this basement nonsense.