We had our first opportunity to walk through our new (mostly) finished basement last night.
Our initial impressions?
Adding walls - and especially adding drywall - fundamentally changes your perception of a space.
In some ways, the basement feels smaller.
The walls are closer, the ceiling is a bit lower.
In other ways, the space feels bigger. Instead of a single large space, there are discrete areas to walk through.
A bathroom. A bedroom. A utility room. A storage room.
It's definitely a lot brighter. We went from 3-4 lightbulbs, to probably 10 times that number.
With the contractor-led Phase One coming to a close, our focus turns to the DIY finish work.
First up - building shelving in the storage room, so that we can move some of our basement stuff back downstairs, and re-claim half of our garage.
We'll try to get that completed this weekend.
In the next week, we'll be taking on the bathroom. It's a full bath, but now that the shower is in place, there's very little more floor left to be tiled.
Our initial impressions?
Adding walls - and especially adding drywall - fundamentally changes your perception of a space.
In some ways, the basement feels smaller.
The walls are closer, the ceiling is a bit lower.
In other ways, the space feels bigger. Instead of a single large space, there are discrete areas to walk through.
A bathroom. A bedroom. A utility room. A storage room.
It's definitely a lot brighter. We went from 3-4 lightbulbs, to probably 10 times that number.
With the contractor-led Phase One coming to a close, our focus turns to the DIY finish work.
First up - building shelving in the storage room, so that we can move some of our basement stuff back downstairs, and re-claim half of our garage.
We'll try to get that completed this weekend.
In the next week, we'll be taking on the bathroom. It's a full bath, but now that the shower is in place, there's very little more floor left to be tiled.
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