For those of you who don't know, our house was a "fixer upper." In other words, it was a mess when we bought it and needed a lot of painting and remodeling and such. And it was fixed up in a hurry because Mom, Dad, Paul, and baby Daniel were living in it while working on it! (Yes, it was crazy! Mom hated the house for the first month! Thankfully, the rest of us kids got to stay with grandparents! =)) The basement was kinda secondary to the rest of the house and has mostly been the "guy's domain". But now after six years, and previously having a dog down there too, it needed redone. The carpet was stained, the walls were marked, and the one room only had a plain basement floor. The rest was all carpet.
So, we got some paint and 13 square inch cream-colored tile, and proceeded to improve the basement.
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| The "game room" as we call it. Part of the carpet is pulled up. The boxes in the corner are the tile. |
We all chipped in with the painting, and that was no problem. (Except that I forgot to get any pics before we painted. I'm always forgetting those things!)
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| "No, that goes over there!" |
The tile, however, is a different story...
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| The first room had only a concrete floor, but the walls are painted here and look much better! They were dark green! |
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| Mom and I taking out carpet. (Yes, we're wearing sweatshirts! That's how long ago this was started! It wasn't a major thing that needed done right away, so Dad didn't! Which is really odd, cause he isn't usually like that!) |
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| the concrete floor under the carpet. Doesn't it just look lovely? lol! |
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| Daniel hard at work! |
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| This is one of the two bedrooms. We didn't replace the flooring in them, the carpets were fine, but we did paint. |
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| Wow, Daniel can balance a hammer on his shoulder! Isn't he talented! =D |
Well, after Dad and Nate
finally got tile laid and grouted, it became apparent that the grout wasn't all the same shade. Some places were darker or lighter than others. Dad took some pics of it to Lowes, and they said "oh, yeah, that has happened before." They gave us a certain kind of paint, and guess what we had to do?? Yep, painted every single groove! Poor Mom did almost all of it! It was quite a pain, but it's finally done!!
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| grouting the tile |
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| I don't know why some of these turned out a little gray |
The trim needs put on yet, but that about it! While we in the mood though, Mom has started painting the stairway, and we going to take the carpet up off the stairs. Will post pics of that when it's done!
