A brand new laundry room
With a laundry room that’s shared with the soon-to-be-finished basement apartment, completing the laundry room couldn’t be separated from the basement remodeling …
Creating a new workshop (and beer cellar!) in the unlikeliest place (pt. 2)
Because of the floorplan design for the basement were going to lose the space under the basement stairs until I came up …
Creating a new workshop (and beer cellar!) in the unlikeliest place (pt. 1)
Because of the floorplan design for the basement, all the space under the stairs down to the basement would be inaccessible and …
Planning the basement: solving the mechanical closet riddle
One persistent problem during the process of planning out the basement was the enormous space devoted to the mechanical area. We have …
Getting started on the basement renovation: making plans (pt 1)
We knew when we bought this house in 2010 that we would one day gut and renovate the basement to turn it …
Taking a grand tour of the basement as it once was
Though we’re almost finished now with the basement renovation, we’ll slowly pull back the curtain on the full project with a handful …
A huge decision on the basement: to dig or not to dig
Just a few days into work on our basement renovation, we had a big decision to make and only moments to make …
We’re back and chronicling the basement renovation
So for at least a few distinct reasons, we have been silent on the blog for the last few months. One of …
Get yer basement stairs refreshed, now with more storage!
Our basement stairway has been a sore sight for as long as we’ve owned the house. All the same layers of wallpaper …
Basement renovation brainstorming
The basement renovation has begun. And by “begun the renovation” I mean that we’ve measured the space and started to toss around …