Progress you can see!

Well the basement work has continued, but now you can really see some of the progress.  Over the past week, I've been repairing walls and mudding drywall- yes, week as I often only get 15-45 minute chunks of simultaneous baby/tot sleeping.  Last weekend Brett built the shower bed and finished the rough in plumbing.  (I had another big project going on last weekend, I'll post that next.)  Friday he hung the hardibacker in the bathroom.  And yesterday, with the help of our awesome friends, Sean and Christina and their little ones, we were able to lay the remaining floor tile!  Currently, Brett's down there working on the grout- so in a few hours the floor will be complete!

Here's Evan checking out our 'level' floor.  160+ yr old basement floor...far from level or even, we did our best.  We also tried really hard to match the existing tile, but unfortunately the color is slightly off.  A bit of a bummer after ordering and waiting for what you think is the right tile.  Trust me, we tried all the options...  Regardless, I doubt most people will notice (I hope.)

Here's the bathroom and shower bed.  We're saving this tiling project for another weekend- maybe one when it's not a high of 20-25 degrees....

A future closet!  Woo hoo storage!!!  If you are curious, that random little recess is the underside of the chimney in the playroom.  Why you wouldn't have more support under your chimney, I'm not quite sure....

Moving on, here are the new walls.  You can see the doors to the bathroom and closet.  The long wall you can see is the wall to the utility/furnace room.  We plan to have cabinets along this wall and to the right as well, to make a mini kitchen/wet bar area.  That's another project a little further down the road. Oh, and if you have never been here, the other door with the light streaming in is the area under our porch, also another project, this one is slated for this spring.

And here's the other view- Brett re-pointed this wall, minus a small area that someone previously covered in concrete, that will be covered by cabinets.  Now, the color difference you can see here, is actually just because the existing tile is super dirty.  The tile we used here is actually the same tile; we found some spares when we moved in that they left.

Well there you have it!  It's starting to come together, we are pretty excited!  I'm hoping to get the walls prepped and painted this week...we'll see!