The basement is done!

Victor and I decided to be brave and finish the basement.  By being brave I mean we decided to spend our project fund even though we knew the furlough was coming.  (More on the furlough in a future post.  It starts Monday.)  We'd had money sitting aside for the basement and although it's painful to spend it, we decided if we didn't do it before the baby was born then we probably wouldn't want to be entertaining contractors on an almost daily basis for 2 months for quite some time.


So it's done.  And completely empty! :) This four day weekend will be spent going through everything that's been sitting out in the garage for 2 months with a fine tooth comb, building a bunk bed for the boys (if it gets here), moving Erik's bed down to the basement for the guest room, giving away things we don't use (instead of storing them again).

At some point we will likely move most of the toys downstairs and then need to figure out what to do with our current playroom.  I am truthfully fairly excited about the organizing/decluttering process.  Victor probably isn't as we have fairly different theories on what should be saved vs donated. Ha!

Here are the photos of our newly finished, empty basement....

Guest room

This looks pink.  It's not, it's a light purple. 

I'm planning on putting a deep purple quilt on the bed 

(thanks Liz) and thought that wall color would go well with it.

   Large closet with built in shelves in the main room

 Cool castle under the stairs for the kids

Main room

 Bathroom - there is a full shower that you can't see 

in this photo

I love how this room turned out.

 Office

Closet with built in shelves in there too.

 There is a nice storage area too with more custom shelves and a 

large closet for the deep freezer. 

It was a very expensive project but I think we finished close to 1500 square feet.

It will be well used I think.