I've been wanting to blog for a while now, especially since I've spent the last 3 months renovating (both cosmetic and construction) our recently purchase home. It wasn't until today when my friend Tracy said "Won't you just blog already?" that I decided to take the plunge, so voila! here I am.
The basement started out pretty depressing, think place you'd take say, a kidnapped person or conduct a criminal interrogation. Yes, that kind of place. Naturally dark, poorly lit, bad choice of colors, you get the idea. We started by redoing all the bad electrical, which forced us to update the hideous square seventies lights of yesteryear. Once the recessed cans were in place, the basement started to evolve from the ugly stepsister to the pretty one. We painted the trim a crisp white, the walls a beautiful, blue grey (Wickham Grey by BM) and the concrete floor a bright white (still needing a second coat at post time). Once the floor dries and a trip to Ikea has been taken, the basement should embody everything I had hoped: light, bright and a place you'd actually want to hang out (and not because you were gagged and tied to a chair).
Before drywall with old paint
Choosing a paint color
paint on the walls
2nd room (soon to be office). I used chalkboard paint for kiddos
Almost ready for furniture and decor --after one more coat of floor paint.
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