Winter project: redo basement

Our basement was less than exciting when we moved in.  I can't really tell you how to do it, hubby is multi-talented and seems to be able to figure out how to do almost anything.  I am so lucky and blessed that way!  But I did want to share some of our before and after pictures.  Just for fun!

We did everything ourselves, except enlisted my Dad to put the new french doors to the patio in and the drop ceiling was done by Jeremy's Uncle.

The cabinets were a craigslist special.  We were able to make them work for this space and had a beautiful glass one left over we hung in the laundry room as well as a whole work bench we put in my husband's hunting room!

Before: Future Kitchen Area



After Kitchen Area, eventually we would like to get a small fridge for under that cabinet
We did the tile here ourselves, hubby cut it I laid it and grouted it.  It's holding up good so far! This was our third
experience with tiling I think.  We chose Castle Stone Harvest from Lowes.







The next area was the living room area. We used the vinyl plank flooring in here. I love how easy to clean it is and has seemed to hold up very well so far to kids and pets and even some foster dogs. We had it all installed within about 3-4 hours.

The last area we wanted a table for games or extra eating space when we have company.  Maybe one day a pool table of course this is where Mr. Deerhead goes as well!

So that is what we spent all winter working on in our spare time.  Hubby did an amazing job figuring out the drywalling thing.  We went through a couple paint colors but like what we finally agreed on after me repainting it.