Our Basement

I realized that I never posted anything about the MAJOR change to our house last year! Better late than never right? Unfortunately I don't have pictures "before" shots of the basement. So, picture a huge area with nothing but cement...cement walls, floors, etc. It was a completely empty space :). On February 14th 2009 we began renovations on our basement. Brandon designed the layout and the work began. Brandon was super dedicated and worked really hard to finish this huge project...he was awesome :). We owe a HUGE thank you to all our friends and family that helped us during this process. Our basement was unofficially/officially ready in August 2009. We have been adding some finishing touches (door knobs, paint touch ups, etc) but I wanted to show some pictures of the "final product".

I tried to match up some "before" shots with pictures I took today. These before shots were taken after framing, electrical work, insulation, dry wall, taping, texturing..... but still give an idea of how different it is now :)

Here is a shot of the hall way going to the bedroom

Same picture taken today.

This is the main area of the basement. Much like a living/family room.

This is where Kaitlin and I play Mario Wii ... best game ever :)

We have a wet bar complete with sink/faucet and a wine cooler.

This is a small area hidden behind the "mechanical room"

We put an air hockey table back there ... you can also see the closet to the mechanical room.

Brandon designed these archways to match the upstairs

We have a full game room...air hockey table, pool table and poker table

One of my favorite additions...a bathroom!

Spare bedroom. This room is almost bigger than our room upstairs :)

This was taken standing in the spare bedroom. It shows the closet and "secret" storage room.

It is awesome because this spare room has a huge closet and then behind that is our storage closet. You can't see the storage crap unless you open the closet door and the storage door:)