Browsing Tag: DIY basement

The Ugly Wall

We have one wall in the house that is particularly ugly. And we’re not quite sure how to fix it. At least yet… Every time someone comes over to see the progress of the basement, we get pretty excited to show it off. Especially now that the carpet is in. Except there is one part […]

Baseboards

So I’m a bit late at getting to this step in the basement project, but I didn’t want to completely skip over it. We finished putting in the baseboards [trim] in 2–3 weeks ago while we were waiting for our carpet to arrive. I mentioned that I needed to go back and fill in the […]

Prime Time

The basement is officially ready to be primed and painted! We had a guy working last week to mud and tape the drywall. We are so happy with the way it turned out, and with the guy we hired. We nixed the guy we had originally hired, and went with the other one that had […]

Projects are a Happening!

Project Number 1: The Basement Now that the drywall has been put in the basement, it’s time to get someone to come in to tape and mud it. We’ve been getting names and contacting people for the last couple of weeks and haven’t had much luck with getting people to return calls about the job. […]

More Walls!

So we’ve made lots of drywall progress since my last post. There are only a few pieces left to be put up in the closet and in a few other spots closer to the stairwell. I plan on doing a full “drywall is done” post, but until the drywall is done I’m just putting up […]

Framing Done. Electrical Started.

So I just realized as I was uploading the photos for this post that I feel like I just keep showing the same wood framed walls. However! in the picture below, the wall to the right finally has a frame [which it didn’t before], and do you notice something else ? [Besides the picture not […]