Basement Progress ... sheetrock!

Sheetrock is now up, mudded, sanded, and finished.

Messy?  Yes.

But Mr. Wonderful did a great job covering the doors with plastic & tape 

so that the dust coming up the stairs would be minimal.

And the guys doing the work are 2 of the neatest/cleanest workers I've ever seen.

They sweep and tidy up every day before they leave.

Hallelujah!

So here's the view as you walk thru the door into the den area.

Amazing how different it looks with walls up!

Looking straight across, thru that other doorway, is the bedroom.

Another angle of the den area, looking into the kitchen area.

And this is the kitchen area.

On that wall will be (from left to right):

the frig, the stove, and then past the corner, the sink.

We aren't doing upper cabinets, just open shelves,

which I'm totally stoked about.

Not something I would do in my main kitchen,

but perfect for a basement space.

Isn't that the beauty of having a finished basement?

Getting to do the things you didn't think to do upstairs,

or things you wouldn't necessary want in your primary living space.

Creative juices have been flowing!

Here I'm standing in the workout room looking into the storage room.

Notice on the right hand wall the outlet up high.

That would be 1 of 2 fans that will be put up for maximum cooling during workouts!

My hubby thinks of everything!!

(can't have ceiling fans - don't want to lose fingers when jumping around with P90X or Insanity!)

And this is in the storage room looking back into the workout room.

You can see the outlets on the left wall for the TV.

And if you look hard on the ceiling, you'll see where Bo has already mounted

brackets to hold his pull-up bar. 

The dreadtreadmill will go in the right corner and 

one day we hope to have a recumbant bike in the other.

Planning to max this room out usage wise once its complete.

40's not going to whip us!!!  ;)

Next up, trim!