Showing posts with label remodeling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label remodeling. Show all posts

July 30, 2011

New Old House

One of the best things about this pregnancy has been our house.

Last time, we had no basement and our roof leaked. There was no bedroom for the baby and so Jackson slept with us until he got too big, and then slept in the dining room.

The dining room was where the roof was leaking, so Jackson's crib was in a space full of buckets collecting water during the winter and spring months.

It was awful.


But slowly, magically our old flat roofed house...




full of leaks...







got a new roof and basement...


and it has felt new to me ever since.

Thank you for my new old house.

Miss baby girl Bennett, get out of my body.

March 7, 2011

One year old basement

I've had a basement now for one year! I had a whole "I love you basement" post written and ready to post, and then our water main broke and I got really angry and started to hate the basement.

It is all fixed now, so I can say again that I love the basement, but I am not looking forward to our next disaster, which will inevitably come.

That's what happens when you live in a 50+ year old home!

So, thank you David for my wonderful basement, my wonderful roof (which in May will have its 2 year anniversary!), and wonderful home. Hard to believe that just a little over a year ago Jackson was still sleeping in the dining room, and all our furniture and chaos was stuffed into the front room.

April 1, 2010

Jasper's Bedroom

When Jasper first came to live with us, the basement was still a dream, nowhere close to being finished. Once we started construction, Jasper was a little wary of living in the creepy downstairs - and I don't blame him! I promised him once the basement was finished that he could paint it whatever color he wanted.

Oops!

We ended up compromising since I was not going to let him paint it ALL BLACK or ALL RED.

I think the end result is just right.


Before:




Here is part of the compromise - a black magnetic chalkboard, using Rustoleum paints.

After:

A dark brown wall - looks okay actually!


I might even use some of this green when I'm up to painting Jackson's new room (upstairs in Jasper's old room).

My dad made this dresser for me when I was little. It is still in great shape and just right for Jasper's new room.




March 31, 2010

March 30, 2010

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.

Before:

After:
Before, Storage Room:


After:

Utility Closet before:



After:



March 29, 2010

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:

After:



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After:





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After:




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





More pictures tomorrow!



March 13, 2010

Finished!

Happiness is a finished basement.


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

March 1, 2010

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.

February 11, 2010

OBSESSED


Last night I tossed and turned. My mind was racing and I kept waking up in a panic. My dreams have been filled with thoughts of . . . decorating.

The closer our basement gets to finished, the more obsessed I become with thoughts of furnishing it painting it, buying things for it, putting up shelves, etc.

Last night I dreamed of fabric and reupholstering every piece of furniture we own and making pillows and buying a desk from the D.I. that I could paint white, no yellow, maybe green.

We have started painting the basement - we've one coat on the ceiling. Next will be primer then paint, then carpet, molding, then done. Everyday I daydream about how it will look.

I need to RELAX!

So to help me relax, I will post some visions of how I hope to furnish the basement. My goal is to be down there enjoying it by March.



In my dream world, my basement would have built in bookshelves and they would look as awesome as this:


In the real world, I might be able to pull something like this off, they have relatively inexpensive shelves like this at IKEA.

image above found on a DIY blog here.


I will need a home office space downstairs.

In my dream world I would have a space like this:

or this:



In the real world I might be able to pull off something like this:


Or maybe this. If you look hard, the D.I. or goodwill have some great finds that just need a little paint:

Most of these images are off of the Pottery Barn website. I will most likely never be able to buy anything at that store, but I love stealing their ideas.

Thanks for helping me relax.

February 2, 2010

Picture time

My mom gave me her camera so that I could steal all her photos and upload them to my computer. I thought I would share a few of my favorites.

 

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Heather and her horse, picture snapped 7/09

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Staci's new home! Snapped 11/09

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Jasper working hard, helping us clean up Staci's new home 11/09

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Jackson enjoying his Christmas present from Aunts Staci and Ree 12/09

 

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My dad finally getting Jacks to nap on Christmas day

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Sledding torture, snapped New Year's Day 1/10

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We made some cool pictures and frames for a steal ($48!) 1/23/10

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Then we came back to my house to find this scary man working all day texturing the ceiling, 1/23/10

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Jasper and Heather help protect the rest of the room from texturing splatters.

In this picture they were arguing "hold it higher!" "no!"

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Look at me throwing a soccer in the basketball hoop. I'm smart!

 

Enough of that,

The End.