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So we were talking about once we put in walls, flooring, and paint the ceiling, the best way to lay out the basement, and here is what we've come up with... we're working with the current location of the washer & dryer & water heater, an [Read More]

So I started looking at wall panel for the basement...I found a moisture resistant smooth panel that should brighten the place up a bit. The first  two white options are a little too bright (ow my eyes!) But the swirl option looks like a wi [Read More]

Okay - so I've been looking and looking for some inspiration for our basement... but all I can find on the web are these huge, luxurious finished basements, and well that's just not us. Our basement is long, but narrow compared to most, approximately [Read More]

Sure it will probably be at least another year before we are able to fully finish the basement... But I'm already spawning idea after idea on how to really liven the place up. First off, the "ceiling" is very low- it's not even a finis [Read More]

A big incentive for me to get a lot of work done on the house this summer is the impending arrival of a guest on the 2nd of September. She's an old friend from Kansas City who'll be staying with me for nearly a week, while we both attend the North A [Read More]

My dad & I have been working on a project in my basement. More on the project when we get further along. But, I thought it would be fun to post one of our discoveries.This cut up poster was being used in a cabinet in my basement. I'm hoping we ca [Read More]

We've had an ongoing conversation about how to make it easier to get in and out of the basement. Our method, since completing the foundation work, has been this rickety ladder, which adds a certain disincentive to putting away tools after a long ha [Read More]

Here are some additional shots of the a href="http://stuccohouse.blogspot.com/2009/01/mystery-patch.html"mysterious patch on my basement floor/a and some additional clues based on your comments to my previous post.br /br /1) When I went down to take [Read More]

It's been cold and icy outside. I've been trapped inside. This inevitably leads to me spending time contemplating things. Always a little dangerous.br /br /a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZHRYEMFps48/SWGO0op2K5I/AAAAAAAACGk/jp_SaYby2KA/s1600-h/002. [Read More]

I've been muttering to myself about how the POs (or perhaps the PPOs) finished the basement ceiling when they finished the basement. Oops. I was wrong. Last night, I was looking at the ceiling and the plumbing, trying to figure out how to gain access [Read More]

a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cbustapeck/2862797490/" title="Bulge in kitchen wall by Christopher Busta-Peck, on Flickr"img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3276/2862797490_cf128ac3a8_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Bulge in kitchen wa [Read More]

a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cbustapeck/2862797490/" title="Bulge in kitchen wall by Christopher Busta-Peck, on Flickr"img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3276/2862797490_cf128ac3a8_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Bulge in kitchen wa [Read More]

My apologies for taking so long to update my blog. There hasn't been all that much going on with the house - at least that's my excuse! I hope you all had a blessed Thanksgiving day. We had some of DH's family down and had an enjoyable time.I drove t [Read More]

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Way back last summer, even before we moved into the bungalow, we had to tear out part of the wall in the finished part of the basement because of the cat pee stench the PO left behind. We had a month from the time we closed on the house until we move [Read More]

My girlfriend and I just bought a house. It’s a bit older - 32 years old, to be exact - and it shows, in a few places. My first big project is to renovate the basement and turn it into an office / rec-room area, and a laundry room. I figured it [Read More]

I’ve spent the last few days (well, longer than that, really) pondering what the exact layout will be for the basement. So here is what it was when I first bought the house: You can see some pictures of it in this post The old kitchen cabinets [Read More]

Manti basements are the scariest places on the planet. Mine was no exception. The walls were rock and mortar with plenty of niches for spiders to spins their webs and with cement plastered here and there.The stairs going down to the basement were esp [Read More]

While I was out at the house today waiting for the cable guy to show up, I took several photos from inside the house, so excuse the view of the window screens...The septic guys were there on their bobcat, filling in the trenches with dirt... The buil [Read More]

As mentioned before, we’re having some rough weather.  Severe weather watches.  Flood watches. “Auntie Em” watches.  And M and I are on basement watch. Which is about as fun as it sounds. We don’t have a sump pump (insert o [Read More]