Basement pictures!

Before: Walking down the stairs. Boring, white, and lots of carpet. Say hi to (skinny) Dory :0)


AFTER: Walking down the stairs. New ceramic tile, and the new paint color starts on the right wall, but below that ledge. Say hi to (fat) Phoebe :0)


Looking down the hallway toward the bathroom. I don't have a before of this, but it was white with carpet and brown trim. Eventually, we'll get white doors throughout the house.


If you keep going straight down the stairs, and turn left, this is what you see. This little nook is where my office was going to go. Now, it's where we keep this lamp. And the air purifier. We'll figure out something else later.


If you keep going toward the bar:

The walls are a sort of grey/brown. It's very light, almost white, but I wanted a contrast with the white trim. The basement is a bit dark, so we couldn't do anything too dramatic for the main color.

If you go around the green corner you see Brian's Christmas/birthday gift - His very own old-fashioned popcorn machine. The bar is to the right in this picture, and the couches and tv are straight ahead.

Another view of Brian's present.

A view from the back side of the bar. Around that corner is the green wall, which you can't see from this part of the basement.

Behind the bar.

Couch placement BEFORE. Note the red wall. It will orient you with the following pictures.

This is a bad picture, but to give you orientation, there's the red wall, the loveseat, and Brian's sitting on the full-sized couch, even though you can't see it. The bar is in the bottom right corner.

A better view of the tv placement. We need to find either a better place for all the Rock Band stuff, or a better way to organize it.

This is the back wall, opposite the red wall, BEFORE. Obviously, before we got the big tv, too :0)

That same wall AFTER, taken from the red wall.

I know I've showed you this before, but here, again, is the super-horrid bathroom that I refused to go in unless I absolutely had to because I kind of felt like I was going to have a seizure if I looked at it too long.

And AFTER. The color is more of a periwinkle. I couldn't get great pictures, because it's kind of small, but you get the idea. I painted the vanity and closet and fixtures white, and this room also has ceramic tile and new white trim.

So that's why you haven't seen many posts from me in a while. We've been holed up in the basement trying to get it done by New Year's Eve. Brian did 99% of the work, with the help of his dad and brother and my dad. It looks even better in person!