Slowly But Surely

Cody has been working very hard all by himself on our basement for quite some time now. We started it before we found out about the last baby last year! But with him doing all the work himself and also working long hours at work, he only has limited time to put into it. He has been working pretty feverishly lately to get it done before the baby comes. While we probably won't make our deadline we are fairly close, which is good enough for us. We're hoping to hire someone to mud and tape and possibly even paint, which will speed up the process and take some of the burden off Cody. I thought I would post some of the pictures of his hard work to this point.

As you come down the stairs, you turn left and go down this hallway. That first doorway that you see to the right is to what will be the storage room.

This is the storage room as you look into it from the doorway. There is a little more room in it than this picture shows. Eventually it will have built-in wooden shelves where I will someday put all my things in plastic bins, neatly organized!

Further down the hallway, you come to a second door and that is the guest bedroom. Like the rest of the rooms in the basement, it is small but it will do it's job just fine. It has a full size window in it so when we sell the house eventually, we will be able to list it as a 4 bedroom.

This is the view from the opposite wall of the bedroom, showing the closet.

Outside of the door to the bedroom, we will have an open TV room. The thing that looks like a closet that you see will house our big screen TV that we hope to buy someday, along with a new couch and a chair or two. Right now I'm pretty sure we'll be paying for all those with the money tree we hope to find miraculously growing in our backyard. There is a sliding glass door in this room which leads to the new patio and backyard. I think you can see it in the first picture.

The TV room opens to this...right now it is just sort of a catch-all but it will be the computer/game/toy area. The door on the left is to a bathroom, which won't be started until after the baby is born. And the door on the right is a small storage area that has the furnace and water heater in it.

And there you have it! It is small but it is going to fit our needs just fine and open up the 2nd bedroom upstairs (currently the computer room) for Owen to have his "big boy" room. We still have lots of work to do but we can't wait to show it all off when we're done! Hats off to my wonderful husband for all the hard work he's put into it all thus far!