The Basement

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  • Downstairs guest bedroom number 2
  • Downstairs guest bedroom number 1
  • I somehow need to figure out how to fit a bar, theater, and foosball table into this rec room
  • A terrible use of storage space.
  • The old wet bar, which I imagine was super classy in the 80s
  • Holes patched from adding support for the wall we knocked out upstairs
  • Got the new wet bar cabinetry installed!
  • While I was redoing the shower on the other side of the wall, I wired the rec room up to hang a piece of electronic art or a possible TV
  • Basement doors and trim: out
  • A box of heavy duty brackets have arrived!
  • For the new floating bartop, I didn't wanna cut/patch the good drywall in the rec room, so I went int from the back-side - our storage room
  • Slots for the floating bar brackets
  • Walls: painted
  • Painted rec room
  • Mounting the floating bar brackets
  • Makin em level
  • My method of leveling and clamping everything in place while I screwed them from the back side.
  • Floating bar brackets, mounted
  • Maybe a bit of overkill on the floating bar brackets, heh
  • The floating bar brackets are pretty strong
  • New wetbar quartz goin in
  • Floating bar installed
  • Got the cabinet doors, sink hardware and electrical stuff updated
  • Sink is ready for action
  • My aunt's paint stick had a sharp, metal end so I hockey wrapped it.
  • Scraping the edges off the popcorn to cut a clean line of paint against the ceiling
  • Alright, let's make these guest rooms less yellow
  • Makin the ceiling white
  • Each of the guest bedrooms had broken corner beads and lots of drywall touch up to do
  • Lots of nail pops to scrape and fix
  • Guest BR 2: painted
  • Guest BR 1: painted
  • New mattress day!
  • Got a Leesa
  • Touchin up trim
  • Touchin up trim
  • I've got some doors to finish
  • Got the Stak Racks ready to finish my first door. Eep!
  • First door: finished
  • First door: mounted
  • New rec-room sliding door has arrived
  • Only having space to finish two doors at a time makes this a very slow process
  • Top-coat stuff
  • Sprayin and sprayin
  • Another door mounted
  • More doors
  • Spraying and cleaning
  • Sliding closet doors hung
  • I hired one of my neighbors to put in the sliding door. They did a great job
  • Nasty old sliding door: removed
  • The old rec-room sliding door
  • A hole in the wall
  • New rec room door: installed
  • New rec room door: installed
  • Bout to finish this sliding door
  • Sliding door: stained
  • Ready to put down the top coats
  • Sprayin that top coat
  • Finishing this door AFTER it was installed was kind of annoying...
  • Finished sliding door
  • Our rec room had a very non-flat subfloor... which wouldn't quite work with the floating wood floor we had planned.
  • Broken corner in the rec room subfloor
  • Getting the high spots ground down
  • Still not quite level...
  • I cut 5/8" of drywall off the bottom of the drywall so that the floating floor could expand/contract under it... This is overkill, but I didn't want shoe mould.
  • Marking out some mildly low spots after the concrete guy came out twice
  • Filled the low spots with 30# roofing felt before laying the floor
  • Vapor barrier down
  • Underlayment: down
  • Cutting door jambs during a meeting, heh
  • If there's one dude I love working with, it's Rico
  • Puttin down floors with Rico
  • Floor after the first evening. Ready to finish er off.
  • Rec room floor: down
  • Trimming everything out
  • Rec room: Floored and trimmed
  • Rec room: floored and trimmed out
  • Foosball table back in
  • Didn't get the rec room door quite measured right to account for the floor...
  • Gettin ready to mount the sliding closet door hardware