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Basement Renovation: A Wet Before To A Fantastic After

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Basement Renovation: A Wet Before To A Fantastic After

The steps below follow the order of the work for this workshop project.

Basement Renovation: A Wet Before To  A Fantastic After   Submitted by Bigger, Better, Best Watch as our basement goes from “Meh” to “Holy crap, get me the wet vac” to “I’ll never make it out alive” to “Holy crap, it’s well fitted” in under four minutes:

Is the video a little nerdy? Yes. Did three months spent underground give me licence to post a highly dorky video on my blog? You betcha. In case you can’t view the video, here are a few stills to give you an option of how far we’ve come. The fireplace area when we first bought the house:

The fireplace after the basement got wet:

The fireplace area today:

The bar area when we first moved in:     The bar area when things got soggy:   The bar today:  

 The stair room when we first bought the house:

The stair room today:

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Having poured blood, sweat and tears into this little basement renovation, we’re pretty pleased with the results. There are a few finishing touches we need to add, but for now – we’re happy to kick back by the fire and toast our memorable new basement.