Friday, September 7, 2018

The basement room is finished!

This construction room was so full of garbage.  Why did I put this junk in here??  A lot of it should have gone in the garbage a long time ago.  The first step was to clean out the room.




I installed shelves, painted the closet white and installed shelf bars.


I painted the ceiling and the walls.



Installed the baseboards.


Painted the baseboards and finished the wiring.


I thought the power was off to the room.  It wasn't.  My gold wedding ring came in contact with a hot wire and shocked me.  I have a scar under my wedding band now.  I took it to the jeweler and had it fixed good as new for $100.  Ce la vie.


Then the carpet installer came!


I asked Merril to put up the fan because I was exhausted. And the carpet looks great!  All the kids had a sleepover in the room.


The bathroom had a transformation as well! I was mostly storing things in it. 


I found this shower curtain and built the bathroom around it. 


The walls were painted a blue/gray color.  I ordered the vanity from home depot.


Merril and I installed the mirror and I installed the light bar.


The cultured marble for the shower and the sink took the longest.  It came about a month after Emily visited.


Merril installed the shower finish pieces and it work. We had Brother Brinkerhoff, a plumber we know, come and take a look. He said he felt that a piece of solder had become trapped in the T in the wall. He tried to blow torch it out from the shower side but it wasn't happening. He said the best thing would be to cut a hole in the wall. The bedroom wall. The one I had just finished painting. 😩 Whatever. Cut a huge hole in the wall that I just finished and fix the dang shower. It worked!

Then I spent 2 days getting the wall patched, sanded, textured, primed and painted but you can't even tell!

But now that it's finished!  It looks so nice!  I'm really pleased with how everything turned out!

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