Home Interior: The Basement Renovation, Part One: The Demolition Begins!

months of the twelvemonth working on the upstairs principal marking of the work solid The Basement Renovation, Part One: The Demolition Begins!

Hey ya'll! So, afterward spending the foremost 10 months of the twelvemonth working on the upstairs principal marking of the house, it's finally fourth dimension for us to enterprise downstairs together with start renovating the basement level. I know y'all guys take maintain been hence curious almost this purpose of the house, together with I'm hence excited to finally live able to percentage it amongst you.
By the cease of today's post, you'll totally sympathize why I've never blogged almost the basement before, but we're simply going to live honest almost things together with savor the journeying that is renovating an one-time 70's house.
I'm feeling excited, terrified, hopeful, together with slightly nauseous.

Since the basement has never been blogged almost before, we'll start at the beginning. Our work solid is a split upward level, hence when y'all walk inwards the forepart door, at that topographic point are 2 sets of stairs...one leading upward to the principal expanse (that we've spent the past times 10 months renovating) together with i leading down.

Those stairs Pb to the basement marking which is comprised of iii rooms: a living room, a bedroom, together with a total bath.

We'll start inwards the living room. This is a movie of this room when nosotros foremost moved in. It had the same beige carpet, xanthous walls, together with night forest trim down that the residue of the work solid had.

Please authorities annotation my endeavor to elevator this room's spirits amongst sequined pillows.
It apparently did non work.

After a few months of living hither together with feeling a piffling overwhelmed past times how much this work solid needed, I tried my best to improve the basement. I painted the walls together with trim down (my go-to recipe for semi-success when y'all lack the funds to practise much else) together with hence inwards my attempts to brand Jesse a human being cave, I accidentally made some other adult woman cave.

I was working amongst 100% thrift shop materials together with got a piffling sidetracked past times candlesticks together with birds. And Jesse pretended to beloved it, which I don't call back I fully appreciated until this really moment.

My woah-man cave didn't in conclusion really long i time nosotros started renovating the upstairs, equally it rapidly became my dumping ground. For anything together with everything.

And hence it became the flooring contractor's dumping Earth for all of his equipment, hence at that topographic point were months at a fourth dimension when I never stepped pes downwards here.

Here's the opposite view...that's Rock Wall Two. He's located straight below Rock Wall One upstairs, which should hand y'all a amend thought of the flooring plan.

Here's the watch of the stairs leading upward to the entryway landing.

I know. That carpeting is a piffling scary. I knew it was getting removed i time nosotros were done amongst the upstairs, hence I simply kinda went into neglect-mode.

Basically, pretty upstairs, HOARDERS EPISODE DOWNSTAIRS.

Also, those piteous neglected stairs. I was supposed to prime number together with pigment the risers similar I did on the upstairs set, together with hence trim down them inwards to a greater extent than or less the sides close the wall.

But, I was a tad overwhelmed at the time.

So, I'll live adding that to the basement to-do list.

Hold me.

So, this in conclusion weekend, nosotros rented a dumpster, together with finally began gutting the basement. We started past times removing all of the trim down together with carpeting inwards the living room.

Luckily the carpeting wasn't glued downwards inwards here, hence removing it was fairly easy.

The residue of the basement demo wasn't hence easy.

Here's a pic of the hallway that leads to the bedchamber (directly ahead), the bath (to the right) together with the garage (behind).

This hallway was originally forest paneling, but it was painted earlier nosotros moved in. I'll live re-painting it together with replacing the trim down operate together with doors.

And belike removing that side-boob light.

Behind that 1970's door is a large bedroom. We used it equally a gym for the foremost duet of years, together with hence eventually it became the dreaded 'cat room'. Cheese likes to larn inwards at that topographic point together with stink it up, no affair how difficult nosotros essay to brand her litter experience pleasurable.

Tootie is SO horrified past times this, together with hopes that i time at that topographic point is some novel flooring inwards here, Cheese volition larn it together.

Here's the watch of the opposite way, looking dorsum towards the hallway. All that materials on the Earth is carpeting glue, which makes prying carpeting off of cement actually fun.

Next upward is the bathroom. The basement bath is pretty spacious, but definitely needs some help.

My finish from 24-hour interval i was to proceed the flooring inwards the basement consistent throughout, which requires demo-ing the tile inwards the hallway together with bathroom. While nosotros were at it, I decided that I was simply going to redo the entire bathroom.
On a budget.

So, Jesse began disassembling the vanity (which doesn't facial expression all that terrible, but I hope you, upward unopen it was kinda gross).

And slice past times piece, he tardily removed the entire thing.

I ever thought this materials seemed actually intimidating earlier nosotros started renovating this house, but the to a greater extent than nosotros do, the to a greater extent than approachable it seems.

Of course, I was simply standing inwards the corner amongst a camera, hence y'all should belike negate my opinion.

Also, who noticed the ornament wreath? Let's pretend it was never downwards here.

In typical 1970's style, nosotros also works life some sassy linoleum underneath the tile.

And afterward all of the materials was out of the bathroom, Jesse began the procedure of chipping upward the tile.

After spending almost an lx minutes on 3 tiles, nosotros decided to hire out this purpose of the demo. It toll us almost $200, but was worth every penny.

That tile was NOT willing to larn without a fight.

So, yesterday a dainty human being came together with jackhammered my flooring for almost six hours.

I simply noticed...you tin run across the master copy night forest paneling downwards past times the flooring where the trim down was pulled up. I've debated pulling this paneling up, too, but I'll belike simply supplant the trim down together with repaint the paneling to jibe the color that I pigment the residue of the walls.

Or I could live non-lazy together with take it.

Time volition tell. :)

Now that nosotros take maintain all of the flooring removed inwards the entire basement (and a can crammed inwards my shower), we're ready to motility on to the side past times side phase. Jesse together with I volition live doing the flooring installation on our own, start this weekend, hence my hope is that nosotros live on together with that it doesn't take maintain us whatever longer than nosotros expect.

That's apparently an irrational goal, but achieve for the stars, girl.

I'll live dorsum shortly to percentage my flooring choices, my overall excogitation for the basement, together with whatever other piffling tidbits or progress that happens along the way.

In the meantime (before I pass my weekend getting sweaty inwards the basement), Jesse together with I volition live celebrating our five twelvemonth marriage anniversary. I experience hence thankful for the unconditional beloved this human being has shown me over the past times 12 years, oftentimes despite myself, together with I don't know if I would live the adult woman I am today without his beloved together with encouragement.

My beloved for him grows every day...especially when he says things similar 'Hey girl, y'all take maintain a pause on this one. I'll rip upward that cat-poo carpeting for ya.'.