Paint & Carpet

Last week was a busy one. We spent Saturday/Sunday painting the basement with the primer, and then everything white. Then Monday and Tuesday I painted the main living room light grey and the bar area dark grey (it took 2 days since we did 2 coats and touch ups). My Dad even came down Tuesday night to help me paint which made things go much quicker! And while I worked on this Matt did the covers on all the lights and started finishing out the electrical outlets.

We were on a tight timeline since we scheduled carpet installation for Wednesday, and then had visitors coming that weekend. It all got done though which was amazing! Carpet was installed Wednesday, we got home that night and started moving all our boxes and stuff from upstairs down to the basement so that we could make our office upstairs into a suitable guest bedroom for my friends arriving on Thursday.

And here are a few pictures of the latest basement with paint and now carpet. Next up molding and doors...

It's hard to get a good picture of carpet. But in case you are wondering it's "loop" carpet, from the Martha Stewart line at Home Depot (made by Shaw). We chose the color "Glass of Milk" to keep it light colored in the basement. It's very plush (we got an extra good pad underneath it)... and a great bonus is that it has a 30 year warranty. 

You can already see the closet in our future office filling up with suitcases/Christmas decorations/my wedding dress boxed up/Matt's boxes of comics.... at least it's not upstairs anymore!