Nearly Finished

So our basement is 99% finished. We now have 800 square feet of extra house plus another full bathroom.  It's all finished enough to start moving things in. I'll give the tour.
We start with Week 4.  I never take a "before" shot of anything, so you'll just have to use you imagination.  Our basement looked just like this minus the framing and the overhead lights.  The overhead lights are a fun story: in Virginia, they never install overhead lights when they build a house.  Except in the hall, kitchen, and bathrooms.  So, when Terry the Contractor and I walked around the basement to plan light placement, I had him put one about every 5 feet.  In this open area of our basement, there are 17 can lights.  This space positively gleams like a beacon.


Look how tiny this puppy is!!!
Our basement is above grade.  One space, a whole room, was above grade but had no window.  I obviously have an obsession with light because I had Terry cut a hole in my foundation and put in a double window.  

That's Ariel standing in front of the new window.

Cute!
So, my whole house, including the basement is painted boring, neutral "booger" in anticipation of renting it out to the masses in a few months.  It's killing me.  So in one place in the house have I left myself a little nook of self-expression: the basement stairs.  Which I painted Tiffany's Blue with dark teal risers.  It makes my heart skip a beat every time I see them.



When the carpet was installed, the girls came down and did a celebratory dance.