The Basement: Here we go...

Memorial Day weekend was.... Basement demolition weekend in the Glassman house. Matt and I, tore out all of the cabinetry, shelving (and there was a lot), drop ceiling, and drywall from our basement. Pretty much everything down to "the studs".  After 3 long days we took it all to the dump in a huge Uhaul, and 3,320lbs and about $270 later it was all gone! woo hoo. Now for the remodel which will realistically take us about 4-6 months.

In a 1919 house, with various previous owners and remodels - there are a lot of fun surprises when you tear things apart. I'll just leave it at that for now.

Here is the living room. We are taking out the wall on the left that currently connects to another bedroom, and making this a much larger space for a living room and bar area. It could be great once we have kids also for a big open play space.

The kitchenette. At least its already plumbed. We are thinking we will replace this with a more modern looking bar set up with sink, mini-fridge (or wine fridge if I get my way), and microwave. I really want glass front white cabinets also to house all our extra glasses and barware. Can't wait!

Stairs coming down from our upstairs living room. We are tearing these out once we get a contractor to help with the structural upgrades, and these will then be flipped around facing the other direction coming down into our new living room in the basement.

The horrible old drop ceiling with florescent lights.

The is one of the basement bedrooms. This is the one connected to our living room where we are taking out the wall and making a much larger living space. Currently a storage area for us... =)

The 2nd "extra bedroom" in the basement. This one is quite small and probably would only fit a twin or full bed. We are going to make this into our new den/office once its finished.

The "work room" or tool room, it is much bigger than it looks, and we are going to put in a drywall ceiling and walls and make it an extra bedroom! Once we tore out all the cabinetry you can see even more how much extra space it provides. The plan is to create a new "work room" in our new garage once we build it.

More of the work/tool room.

The back stairs leading up to the back yard.

Pile for the dump.

Bedroom remodel

So, not a major undertaking... but we felt that we should finally remodel our master bedroom before we move on the the major basement project. Plus we had boxes of left over bamboo hardwood floors in our basement from when we did the rest of our upstairs. So we moved all the furniture out of our bedroom, and our "1 weekend" project was done 4 weeks later. I shouldn't have been surprised. Everything takes us longer than usual, partly because we find other things we want to also do on weekends (like a bar crawl, haha) and partly because some things just take us longer (like moving electrical outlets...).

Well its finally done. No longer sleeping in our office on a mattress. I love how it turned out, and glad we took the extra time to do the nice moulding.

Here are a couple pictures of the room "before".

A really old picture, before we bought our house.

After just some paint the first year/two of our house.

And... After! new floors, white moulding around the floor and windows, new blinds...