Almost Finished!

I just had to take a moment and share just how close we are to finishing our basement! I'm just so excited! We started renovating our basement over a year ago. We started with the family room side. We, and I use the term we very loosely since Doug has done probably 95% of the work with a little help from his dad and a little less help from me :) Anyway, we ripped down a rock wall that was just hideous. Upon ripping it down we discovered that a whole cinder block in the basement wall, under the window was missing. Yeah! That explained a lot of our water problems in the basement! So, we made that window bigger and put in all new windows, including an egress one in what was to become the master bedroom. We then ripped down all the ugly paneling and installed drywall. We then installed beautiful laminate flooring, I actually helped a lot with this! We installed a closet and cabinetry for Jazzy girl. We also framed in our fireplace. The family room got finished and we started on the master suite. The layout was just so ridiculous! So we framed in a separate laundry room, and master suite, including a walk in closet, full bath with separate jacuzzi tub and shower and a bedroom. When I'm actually typing it out, it's amazing all we've gotten done! Now, we are on the home stretch. When Doug gets home from work tonight we're going to get a couple of doors and he will hopefully get those installed tonight. I'm going to paint all the new trim that he hung. Then we have a couple of transitions to install from carpet to tile, a towel rack to install, caulk around the tub and two pieces of trim that have to be ripped an hung up. THAT'S IT! Wow! I can hardly believe it. I really thought the end was never in sight and now here it is!

Next, on to the upstairs bathroom....