Drywall Progress on the Basement Project

The drywall finishers have been hard at work.  Close to 1100 sq ft of space is being finished.  The basement is really coming together!

Bottom of the stairs (doors going to store-room and bathroom)

Stairway that is opened up.

Photo below taken from first bedroom (doors going out to main room and to the shared walk in closet).

Photo below taken looking into the first bedroom.

Photo below taken in the walk in closet.

Photos below taken in second bedroom.

Photo below taken from the big room (two open door ways go to the bedrooms).

Photo below of back wall in the basement that now has an extra entrance to the store room.

Photo below of an area of concrete that had to be removed to add pipes for a sink in a kitchen island.

Photo below of stairway and area where the kitchen will be.

Photos below of the big room.

Looking forward to continued progress!

Catching Up on Winter Basement Project

This winter I'm working on finishing a basement.  Here are some updates on the project.

We removed two posts and consolidated to one post to give more flexibility to furniture placement.  This required putting in a new steel beam.  Above: It gets a bit dusty cutting the concrete so that I could reinforce the area where the new post would go.

After a bit a clean up.

Rebar reinforcements.

New concrete.

Supported the house/beam with framing before removing posts.  Brought in two 400+ lb beams on scaffolding and moved into place.

Beam is up!

Supporting wall that was built to support beam/house during the process has been removed.

The basement already had one bathroom and one bedroom.  The bath will remain, but the bedroom is getting modified because it will have a walk in closet that it will share with another bedroom that is getting added.  Above you can see the remains of the original bedroom after extensive demo.

Added framing to the walls and plastic to seal out moisture.

Add framing to the ceiling.

Before the stairway was enclosed (see above three photos). I removed this wall to open it up. I also added a platform.

Partially demoed.

Stairs are now open and platform added.

Two bedrooms and walk in closet are framed.

Can lights are added.  What a difference a bit of light makes!  Stay tuned for more updates!