82Caddy 851 #1 Posted January 23, 2017 So this project has been going on since before Christmas... Room before: Been doing some construction inside the house... The basement bedrooms have these stupid corner closets that don't hold anything useful. Like two coats a pair of bibs and a pair of boots and the closet is full. Useless. Plus they had this stupid drywall mud texture. I'm told its super expensive to have done but I'm not a fan and neither is my wife. Talked with the people across the street that built that house and decided that putting the room back to how it was designed to be was the best approach so that's what I did with the help of a bunch of people along the way.So in preparation of things with an estimated arrival date of May, the old closet was ripped out and a new one was constructed like this: Click this bar to view the full image. Even my wife got involved in some demo...more like just for one photo...I scraped all of the walls and most of the floor of all the old texture and glue with a 4" scraper blade. Spent way too many hours doing that, but the end result was worth it. Still have part of the floor to do.In progress: Click this bar to view the full image. Click this bar to view the full image. Had some supervisors stop by to inspect work: Click this bar to view the full image. Click this bar to view the full image. How the room sits now: Click this bar to view the full image. Installed pine paneling on the ceiling (just like the rest of the house), new dim-able LED light fixture, added closet with light, fixed the walls/painted them and my wife added the stenciled birch trees on the wall. My friend installs carpet for a living stopped by and put the new carpet down for me last week.Since carpet went down, trim was up next. Click this bar to view the full image. Decided that the new trim made the door look even worse then it we realized. Hit up Menards for some 11% rebate and picked up a 6 panel solid core door. Got that stained and installed.Alex should be picking up the dresser for the closet so I can get started on building the closet organizer. Click this bar to view the full image. Yes, that's to scale with 1 block being 4"Cat Tax: 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rmaynard 14,911 #2 Posted January 23, 2017 Other than the young lady swinging the hammer, I'm assuming this guy did the rest of the work? That's a lot of work. Been there. Looks like you did a fine job. 7 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
82Caddy 851 #3 Posted January 23, 2017 You bet, Hobbes (the cat) did the majority of the work. He's pretty good with an air nailer and miter saw 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
953 nut 51,794 #4 Posted January 24, 2017 3 hours ago, 82Caddy said: scraped all of the walls and most of the floor of all the old texture and glue with a 4" scraper blade. Nice work. Too late for this job, but for future reference; there is c scraper blade that fits in a saws-all, works well! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
82Caddy 851 #5 Posted January 24, 2017 13 hours ago, 953 nut said: Nice work. Too late for this job, but for future reference; there is c scraper blade that fits in a saws-all, works well! I saw those, but don't have the best saws-all (it's a HF one) and couldn't justify a quality one for this project. I'm already into this room for too much time and money but it turned how my wife wanted so that's all that really matters. Have to keep the pregnant lady happy :). Happy wife happy life. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ken B 3,116 #6 Posted January 25, 2017 Very nice work! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites