We have settled into the basement while we work away at the main floor. We plan to be done by Christmas... but I REALLY hope it's sooner than that. Although living in the basement this time around is a lot nicer than our last 10 week episode of basement dwelling in Lucan. This one is finished! And there's even rooms! Yippee!
The girls have their beds set up in one room, Jake and I have our bed tucked away in a little corner. We have a living room with a TV and a full bathroom. The kitchen upstairs is still fully functional, and will remain that way until everything else is done. So it's really not too bad.
The only thing we don't have downstairs is laundry. So we made redoing the laundry room our biggest priority. And it's almost done!
Here is what the laundry room looked like before we moved in:
The first thing we did was remove the baseboards and paint. Everything "white" in this house is actually cream or ivory... so every square inch of this house needs to be painted. We like things white and clean!
You can see the ivory/cream/practically yellow trim really well in this picture.
We decided to keep the built in ironing board just in case we stop only wearing jeans and t-shirts. Kidding... we didn't have any 2x4s or drywall here at the time or else that thing would have been gone! Maybe one day.
Next we tackled the floor. We found this awesome sheet vinyl at Lowe's with a gray hexagon pattern. It was an inpulse buy, and it turned out great! We went looking for tile but that would have meant ripping up the old vinyl and subfloor on top of tiling. With 100 million projects on the go and a dwindling sock and underwear supply, we went for it.
This was our first time ever laying sheet vinyl so we were both kind of nervous. But it was super easy and it's really stuck down. Success!
A few moves ago (ugh) I had bought 2 cabinets for my laundry room that never made it up on the wall. So I was pretty determined to get these things up after moving them 3 times.
Since the washer and dryer are so deep and high, I wanted to be able to actually use the cabinets so we attached 2x4s (2 thick) first to bring the cabinets out from the wall. This was also the only easy way I could be sure we had everything mounted to studs. Funny thing about finding studs. Laser levels don't work. Even if you buy $15 worth of baterries for it after searching for an open store on a long weekend. Weird. 😜
We eventually found our stud finder and shortly after found the studs.
The only thing left to do is add baseboards and paint the trim around the door and closet. It feels good to have 1 room (almost) done and it feels even better wearing clean clothes!
Now onto the girls' rooms so they can stay excited about this house while we live in the basement!
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