Browsing Tag: basement

2014 Home Goals

I made a list over last weekend of house projects I reeeeaaally want to get done this year. Some have been dragged out for far too long (like the basement) and then there are the ones we’ve been saying we need to do since the first year of living at the house. Last weekend I […]

Gas Meter Cabinet & Wine Rack Pt. 1

Project “build a cabinet to hide our gas meter” has finally started. The cabinet to hide the water meter was done last spring, and now it’s time to get the other cabinet done. As of right now, the plan is to divide the column in half—the top would be a cabinet with two doors that […]

Remember That Basement Project?

You know, the one we started roughly two and a half years ago that gets worked on here and there? Yeah, that one. Well here’s an update on it. It’s still not done. But we are soooo close! At times I feel like nothing has been done in the last year since carpet was installed, […]

Giving In

For probably the last year I have been on the hunt for a round table for the basement, with West Elm’s Arc Dining Table always in the back of my mind. It is exactly what I wanted—round, dark wood, perfect size for the space in the basement, seats four, no old-school pedestal base, and a […]

The Ugly Wall “Solution”

So remember the ugly wall in our house, and how we weren’t sure what to do with it? Well, we think we’ve come up with a solution…turn it into a dry erase wall. I’m still a bit “eh” for the solution, but Tim is pretty excited about it, so that’s what we’re moving forward with. […]

Covering the Support Beam

So after the carpet was installed in the basement, we took a bit of a break from working on it. We have taken care of some of the more minor tasks—like putting a cover on each of the new vents, finally filling in the nail holes on the baseboards, moving things into the closet and […]