*tap*tap* Is this thing still on?

[hellziggy]

Dang. I haven't updated for almost a week and a half! That's practically forever in my LJ world! :)

School started 3 weeks ago, so I'm back in the world of having to do homework again. That's what I spent a good chunk of this afternoon doing.

Rick & I spent last Sunday cleaning the house. My god, was there a lot of clutter in the living room! We're enjoying having a clean house again. :)

While de-cluttering, I came across the negatives of the pictures we took during the inspection before we bought our house. Most people never saw the basement before chebutykin & chebutykinDad helped with the remodel before she moved in.

Here are two before pictures:





You like that lovely GREEN fireplace? And isn't that linoleum/70's brown panel combo just awesome?

We're not really doing much with it right now, but hellbob was just hooking the playstation up down there earlier tonight. Eventually we're going to turn it into an uber-moviewatching room.

I took these pictures tonight to show what the wall/floor/fireplace look like. (Just ignore the disarray of the furniture, k?)
chebutykin picked the paint and wallpaper border when she moved in. There had been a space heater in the wall, and even though we redid the sheetrock on all the walls the hole in that wall gave us the idea of setting the fridge into the wall so it wouldn't take up any room.







*edit*
I don't know WTF was up with the pictures in this one, but I loaded them to a different photo site so they should work now.

Comments

[illuminated-sin.livejournal.com]

I don't see any pics. :-/

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

Arrrg! It should be fixed now. I have no idea why the quilt pictures showed up but these didn't...

[kajicarter.livejournal.com]

Me neither. *sniff*

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

Arrrg! It should be fixed now. I have no idea why the quilt pictures showed up but these didn't...

[genevra.livejournal.com]

Don't forget the mad props to chebutykin for that fireplace! Yes folks, that is the *same* fireplace!

[scubagrrl.livejournal.com]

The fireplace is much improved! Actually the whole room looks great. I like the frig set into the wall! Clever.

Reminds me I need to throw out about half of the stuff we have sitting around here.

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we've got tons of clutter. We've just never really let it build up in that part of the basement because there's often someone living there!

[illuminated-sin.livejournal.com]

I see them now! Yay! How did you change the color of the fireplace? Did you rebrick it? o_O

Although I like the recessed fridge, my first thought was that you're going to burn up the motor because there can't be any airflow to the coils back there. Is there more space around it than it looks like?

Nice job! :)

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

chebutykin attacked the evil green paint with a gallon of citrus paint stripper and a wire brush on a drill. We figured that if that didn't work we would just repaint it "normal" colors! But it came out fabulous.

The whole back of the fridge is open. There's another half of the basement that's not finished, and the fridge goes into a space we can't use anyway because the furnace & water heater block easy access to it.

[illuminated-sin.livejournal.com]

Oh! Most excellent on both of those! Thumbs up. :D

[chebutykin.livejournal.com]

Sometimes... I can still smell the orange goo.

I miss the old lair sometimes! Somewhere, I have other photos of the renovation. I should see if I can find them.

[camel0t.livejournal.com]

DUDE!!! Rick has hair!!!!