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Pictures from my cell phone of our progress
 If I was smarter than my computer I would only have one collage but alas I am not so you have two.

pictures from the real camera of our progress

On top of the holidays we, a little bit, and my brothers,  Dad, brother-in-law, who ever we can get, have been working on our basement remodel. To think of it all makes my head hurt. It has been a HUGE project, with about 700 mini projects that have to happen to make the finished project. We are currently on 357!  We have had lots of down time where nothing happens, but we have had good things happening lately so I have decided to share.

We did a bunch during the summer, including taking out the laundry room. So I haven't done laundry at my house in probably five months.  We have recently made some big progress and are almost done with all the demolition and getting in to the actual constructing!

By time we are done we will have replaced all of the windows in the basement, as much of the electrical in the whole house as we could, new plumbing in most of the house-pipes, main stack, moved toilets drains and showers in the basement and added a sink for the laundry room, maybe even a water softener (that is yet to be determined?), reframed and insulated the whole basement after turning it on it's head, and then we'll get to the sheet rock, paint, trim work, flooring and all the stuff I might get  to start thinking about soon.

  Are you tired yet? ...    I am.  Maybe it's the extra grunt labor I have been trying to pitch in with.

I am ready for a smaller project, like redoing the master bedroom and bathroom upstairs! AH.

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HW said…
Your ambitions are impressive. It looks like it is coming along nicely!
December 29, 2011 at 5:48 AM
Hugs, Mom said…
WOW! Huge changes! Nice you are young and strong and imaginative and have good help. Way to go!
December 29, 2011 at 5:44 PM
kj said…
I hadn't really appreciated the magnitude of this project until now. Wow! That is a lot of work. I especially liked the picture of Glen triumphant in the window.

Good luck with the rest of the remodel. Can't wait to see more pictures of the progress!
December 30, 2011 at 5:54 AM
kj said…
p.s. if you send me your email address I will send you an invite to my blog. My email is wmandkirsta at yahoo dot com.
December 31, 2011 at 7:31 AM
Paige said…
Young redheads in pigtails and purple add to this project more than anything. Looks extremely ambitious. Yes, it does make me tired.
December 31, 2011 at 12:34 PM
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