Out with the old

The first area of the house Bart and I are focusing on is the basement. Why the basement you ask? Because there is an apartment that we want to make into a LEGAL basement apartment that we can rent. Now that we have the permit, Bart has jumped in with both feet and is ready to go. We don't want the basement to feel like a neglacted old dungeon- which is exactly what it feels and smells like currently.

 Can you believe the taped windows? and yes we knowingly bought it this way...

The basement has 3 bedrooms or 2 bedrooms and an office.

The first thing we are doing is adding some natural light by cutting out the small windows and replacing them with much much larger windows. Natural light is wonderful!  We hired Omar from ksl.com to cut out the windows because he was the least expensive and would do it on a Saturday, but before we could have the windows cut Bart had to DIG DIG DIG.

 Bart also had this delivered because he needed to fill the window wells with something...

he only had 11 tons of gravel delivered. Geeze, I'm not sure if we will have enough :)



After cutting out the windows, Bart has demolished the old bedrooms.  We plan to redo the ceiling (to make it soundproof), frame the bedrooms (currently it's just foundation wall), add insulation, change the duct work, run new electrical wires and boxes, drywall and of course new pain and carpet.  I finally will come in on the paint and carpet part.

LET THERE BE LIGHT!!!