Since late July, our basement has been involved in a serious face lift. The whole process has gotten more and more intense, until at last I felt like I never even ventured upstairs. To top it off, I didn't even take proper photos, just phone snapshots. I had to post them anyway, because they are the only proof I have of how much we did.
The front bedroom, with its spider cracks and crumbly brick. I especially miss the clown red window and exposed wires.
The first kitchen cabinet I picked out. (for $15)
This little door and frame ended up in the laundry room wall for storing soap and dryer sheets and irons etc...
Laying out the bathroom floor.
We moved the laundry room from the west side of the house to the east side, to make room for a kitchen, and to fufill my lifelong wish for a proper laundry room.
Some ill-informed person removed these cabinets from a bathroom, and I snatched them up for the kitchen. The mirrors add 'space' and light to that end of the room, they are skinny and pretty while taking up only a few inches out from the wall.
For a few years we had a big slab door just leaning up against the wall here, screwed to the house. We used that door for the kitchen counter, and here is our free door, with hinges and everything!
The old laundry 'area', destined for a kitchen. It was hard to imagine, even till the end that this space could be not-disgusting.
More future kitchen.
This is the wall and door we built to hide the plumbing and pump for the bathroom. I just couldn't look at it.
All the usual mess.
The old door turned counter top.
A huge free built in bookcase that I rescued from a school, once painted the color of dead skin, now primed and the new 'mantel'.
This is what the kitchen looked like almost every day.
And here it is, at 90%
A friend found this huge piece of metal on the side of the road, and it just happened to be the exact size of our backsplash. While it may err on the side of coorporate coffee, it turned out pretty cool.
Cabinets, paint, floor, window trim, a sink that works and drains without leaking....
$2 wallpaper. I just want some oil paintings of french bulldogs to hang in the hallway now.
Because of all this, I have barely checked my email, gone outside (unless it involves going to the ReStore) or talked to anyone. I am very pleased to announce that I only have a tiny bit of painting and odd jobs left, so I can enjoy the holidays....I promise to take some better, non-blurry, properly dressed photos soon!
Crossing things off my list in red pen, Alice
