The Basement is Coming Along

Our lives are completely consumed by construction right now! Every night we get home from work, eat, and put in at least a few hours on the bedroom in the basement. Dave spends half a day every Friday by himself working on the basement, and we both put in at least 8 hours every Saturday in.

Two weekends ago we installed all the drywall between Friday (we both had off work), and Saturday. This week has been the week of mud. Next week might also with that title... Mudding takes a long time! It didn't help that we pulled off the wood paneling that covered one of the walls, that we found nothing behind it. We had to drywall the entire wall and mud it together. We've also completed the electric this week, which is so good to have done. We put in a light, moved the light switch to the other side of the new doorway, and replaced all the off white plugs with white ones.

Next we'll have to sand down all the mudding we've done, prime the walls, paint the walls and the ceiling, install the bedroom and closet doors, paint and install the trim... and build out the closet shelving (which might just wait until Christmas or even next summer). At this point I'm just so exhausted that I don't even want to think about the closets! I've already revised my idea of what we want to do for the bedroom closet so we don't have to do so much work. 

I just can't wait for everything to be done! I'm so tired of construction.