Archive for July, 2006

Building Walls in the Basement

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

Lately the big project has been the guest room in the basement. The room that will become the nursery is currently a guest room, so we needed a new guest room.

Here’s the layout that we came up with:
basement-room_layout

Why is there a wet bar in a guest room, you ask? Well, originally this room was going to be a media room, and hopefully one day will be used as such. We’d love to put in a murphy bed so that 90% of the time it can be a media room and the rest of the time it can be a guest room. We’ll see if that ever comes to fruition.

In the mean time, we’ll have a huge guest room that has a nice wet bar in it, which will actually be convenient, because until we add a bathroom to the basement, we only have one bathroom.

All of the framing is complete, the electrical is roughed in and hopefully I’ll get the insulation finished tonight. Then comes drywall, electrical finishing, trim and carpet. Think we can get it done in the next 2 weeks before the inlaws arrive? Let’s hope so!
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By the way, the consensus on the piano is to dismantle it and re-use the wood for other projects. Specifically, the vanity and cabinet in the bathroom. Now I just gotta figure out how to get rid of the 500lb+ soundboard! Free hunk of scrap metal, anyone?