Basement Renovation: Day 2

Day 2 was less exciting. The drywall for the back room was added and the various holes that the electrician needed were patched. Most of the other work for the day was preparing the walls to be painted. Lots more joint compound and lots of scraping doesn't lend itself to more pictures. All of the baseboards that are being replaced have now been removed and all the baseboards that are staying have been caulked.

Tomorrow is New Year's Day, so no work will be done. Painting should start Thursday so the place will look so much different. It's coming along really well.

Basement Renovation: Day 1

They arrived early Monday morning and made quick work of the demolition. The half of the wall between the utility room and the pole were the first to go. Next was the wall separating the storage room from the back closet

The light in the back was also taken down. The walls were apparently not secured very well to the existing framing so a lot of work was done to get that done. You can see all the joint compound along the dark grey walls in the post-electrician pictures.

The electricians didn't arrive until nearly 4:00 and weren't done for 3 hours. The ducts caused some issues. In the front room, one pair is not aligned and in the back room we had to go from 4 to 3. We were able to add an outlet along the new wall so we'll have an option for a floor or table lamp if it's not quite bright enough.

Basement Renovation: Day 0

The basement remodel started 30 Dec. The prior weekends involved hauling a ton of stuff upstairs and into the garage. Much thanks to the Fausts for their assistance. There's no way we could have accomplished this whole thing without them. Here's what it all looked like the night of the 29th.

Christmas Cookies

This year Jessica made many types of Christmas cookies:
Sugar
Raisin Filled
Peanut Butter (topped with kisses, Reese's cups and untopped)
Date pinwheels
Chocolate Chip
Chocolate with Peanut butter chips
Molasses

Jameson enjoyed putting sprinkles on the sugar cookies, but didn't eat very many.

Next year I think we'll concentrate just on the sugar and raisin filled as they are both our favorites. With the new, smaller cookie cutter, I think the raisin filled will be even better.