Drywall is done in the basement!

First picture is from the perspective of me standing in the Great Room/Entertainment Room and looking at the bottom entryway and staircase.

Second is of PJ's office.

Third is of our downstairs bathroom...some walls unfinished as we haven't quite found the right shower stall to put in. It's a pretty large basement bathroom and we want to explore what other, more fancy shower stalls are out there to make sure we use this space properly.

Fourth picture is from the perspective of me standing back against the end of the hallway, by my craft room and exercise room, looking down the hall toward Great Room, bathroom, spare bedroom and utility room.

The last picture is of Great Room/Entertainment room. It's very impressive with the recessed lighting in this room, can't wait to get a projector screen and some movie chairs in here!

More work on the Cabinets!

The cabinets along the walls are in, most with their doors on. The island, bar area and bottom cabinets will go in soon, they were moved to the living room for now so that PJ and Phil can sand the floor to make sure it's smooth when they and the flooring are put in.

Cabinets start to go up!

Lots of boxes everywhere, but it was so neat to see the cabinets start to go up on the walls! PJ and Phil worked on those today, while Kerrey did some touch up work on the paint, in places where the paint touched the ceiling.

Basement is cleaned and ready for drywall

PJ took a lot of time to clean up the very messy basemtent area to prepare for drywall. The drywall should be going up tomorrow, April 15th. It will be nice to have all the walls done and the insulation enclosed. Benjamin and I went to visit PJ a couple times and Ben figured out that he could push the insulation away in a few spots and thought it was fun. It will be nice when more of the house gets done so he can be over there with out it being such a hazard. =)

Lighting fixtures

Above are pictures of our light fixtures in the kitchen, dining room and living room. All alabaster glass and a bright white light. It was actually a bit challenging to find the right light fixtures that we wanted, style wise, and then to make sure they were compatable with the bright white light bulbs that we wanted throughout the house. Some light fixtures only took flourescent bulbs and so on. We also wanted to make sure the fixtures all had the same brushed nickel color metal. It took a couple of trips to Menards, but we finally found the exact ones that we wanted.