We are a long way from that beautiful space, but we have started the hardest part, the painting. So a few "before" pictures:
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Basement "Refresh"
Our garage is under our house, so we walk through the basement whenever we go anywhere. It is a standard unfinished basement, bare concrete floor, walls, dark exposed ceiling... We wanted to make it a more pleasant place to walk through, and maybe even linger in (especially when doing all that laundry that 2 little boys generate!). A few months ago, I stumbled across an "inspiration room" online, and the project grew from there. The inspiration room:
We are a long way from that beautiful space, but we have started the hardest part, the painting. So a few "before" pictures:
One busted paint sprayer, 5 gallons of primer on the ceiling, 5 gallons of masonry sealer on the walls and many, many hours of labor by Michael, and we have the first coat of paint up. I took a few pictures, and it just doesn't do it justice. The lighting is terrible down there right now since we took everything down to paint. We will be putting up new, prettier lighting, along with a shelving system from Ikea, and lots of pretty accessories to brighten things up. Hopefully in a few weeks we will be done!
We are a long way from that beautiful space, but we have started the hardest part, the painting. So a few "before" pictures:
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oh my, I am so sorry about the paint sprayer. It looked like a tremendous amount of work when you showed us last week. The basement really does look so much brighter.
ReplyDeleteOf course, now we have decided the floor looks so sad next to the pretty walls, and since everything is cleared out already, we might as well do the epoxy floor coating. Scope creep!
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