Basement Project

Our basement has been unfinished (except for a bathroom) for the three years that we've lived in our home, and it's finally time to change that.

We had planned to contract out the work when we got around to finishing it, but when faced with the actual cost of it, we wimped out.

Well, sorta.

We wimped out on reaching for the wallet.  But there won't be any wimping out downstairs.  Everybody is being drafted to help!  

Actually this was the last time the kids were allowed in the basement due to the influx of power tools...dangerous ones that make Mommy rather uncomfortable!  There's that...and the insulation that was removed looks remarkably like "fuzzies." And if you know little Miss Cupcake, then you probably know that she LOVES to hold a fuzzy wadded up in her fist while she sucks her thumb.  More danger.  So kids are banned from the basement for the time being.

  

Here is the "before" picture...

Here's the man with the tools...



Here is what we accomplished on our first day of actual framing...