Designing a new room...

So, you have already heard about our new flooring that arrived, so I decided it was time to let you in to our journey into the realm of "finished basements"... oh wow.

So, it has been a while coming along with the basement building (we started before I went back to work).  Matt (with the help of his Dad and brother-in-law Bill) has done every inch of it himself!  I am SO proud of him!!  :)  <3  Things were in lightening mode right as I went back to work and Christmas rolled around (we thought at the time it would be slightly functional during our holiday festivities, but alas, it wasn't--not for lack of Matt's trying though!!!) and after the holidays and our traveling, things slowed down a bit.  It was really cold here (which meant it was cold downstairs, and things weren't drying correctly) so Matt waiting until it was above freezing to start again.

Things have progressed nicely the past few weeks and the multiple layers of mudding are almost complete!  Hooray!!  :)

It is really coming together nicely, the design looks fabulous and very functional.  The room that is almost finished is my lovely, big, organized laundry room!  Wahhoo :)  I picked out some functional cabinets that are going to rock my organizing socks off, and I can't wait to tell you all about it!  The only thing left is to sand, paint, and put the tiling in.  I will definitely post when we are finished with it!

The large space will become a family room type area.  We are moving our TV and current couch downstairs and we will change the living room into another fun room to design.  More on that later as well!

We are going to have a library- bliss.  It will be a little while before I post on this.  We have to finish the room first, then I have to design  (and Matt has to build) the bookcases- floor to ceiling.  Double Bliss.  Don't worry, I will tell you all about it! :)

Really, the biggest bulk of the work is complete- everything is built, wired, juiced, walled, and almost mudded.  We just need to sand all of the walls and ceiling, paint and lay the floor.  Not much left!  Yay!  :)  I can't wait to start using this area, especially since it walks right out to our back area where we are going to have plants GALORE this spring and summer!!  :)

Our goal is to be finished before gardening season kicks in, since we are having a monster garden this year, it will take most of our time.

Be Blessed.