The basement, pretty much complete

The end of last week was pretty eventful here. Thursday morning the men arrived to install the carpet in the basement. They were here all day working on that. I really wanted to see what it looked like!! After they left around 5:00, we all went downstairs to run around on the soft new carpet!

Shortly after that Chad's brother Bradley and daughter Lucca arrived. We were excited for their visit and enjoyed spending time with them. They were the first people to stay in our newly finished guest room! We had one small problem though, the queen box springs that has been set up in Carson's room for two years now would not fit down the stairs to the basement. It was SOoooo close, but it just wouldn't fit. The mattress did make it down to the new guest room and Bradley and Lucca slept on that on the floor. I looked on the Internet and they do make a split queen box springs - which is what we need I guess. I was really looking forward to getting that out of Carson's room!! For now, I just leaned the box springs up against the wall in his room to give us a little more room in there. Here are some pictures of the wall to wall furniture in Carson's/guest room prior to finishing the basement.

This is the guest room in the basement. It was kind of hard to take a very good picture of the space but there you go. Mattress on floor. The quilt was made by my Grandma Short for our wedding. The wall color we had actually purchased with the intention of painting our living room the darker color and hallway the lighter color on our main level. But when we started painting the living room we didn't like the color with the color of our kitchen. So we used it down here instead! One problem with the carpet install, now the doors don't fit back up! They need to be trimmed in order to hang. It really only affects this room, the entry door and the closet sliding doors. When we thought we were almost done, yet more work for Chad.

It will be so nice to have this space for our guests and now Carson won't have to sleep in the pack-n-play in our room whenever we have guests! :)

The finished space (office, hallway, guest room and bathroom) is to the left when you come down the stairs to the basement. To the right is a large open partially finished space. Chad painted the brick walls and we had carpet put down in this space as well. In the collage below, the top left picture is what you see when you come down the stairs to your right. Wide open space to run run run! To the right in that picture is the furnace/storage room. The middle picture is an area tucked off to the left in the first picture. Lots of toys were taken off our main level and put down there. Top right picture, Andrew and Carson in there "on your marks, get set..." position. Bottom left pic - the GO! picture. They race a lot! Bottom right pic - Carson bating. He often says "batter up!" before he swings. Lots of fun. Chad and Andrew have started playing some form of dodge ball down there. Basically it consists of Andrew running around and Chad throwing balls at him. They both seem to enjoy this a lot. It's a little wild! :)