Bob the Builder... Yes, We Can!

What?  No one else is singing that song in their head now?  Yes, we watch too much PBS, but is there really such a thing as too much building? Not for us!  We have been working diligently on our basement, using all our free hours and brain cells to make sure everything meets code.

First was plumbing in the bathroom... Doin' Great, George!  Wait, you mean Amy has to work too?  Ok, lets swing that sledge hammer! (who needs a gym when you are renovating!)

Good thing our boys tend to like to help out with the hard work.  The bathroom had Many, Many facets of work in order to complete the plumbing.  We had to build out the pipes, dig out the concrete, build a platform.  Wow, I am tired just describing the process.  Here are some of the in process shots with our hard workers.

Perfect! ... are we done now?

Starting to look like a bathroom!

Kris! The plumbing isn't hooked up yet!

Onto the next room!  Time to put some effort towards the bedroom and closet.  Lots of electrical, framing and drywalling to be done.  And evidently, Daddy had to make a race car track out of one of his tools in the process.

OK, all that seemed pretty fun, but now the real fun begins!  All that mudding, taping, texturing and painting!  Wait... did I say painting? Are we that close to being done with this room?  Oh Boy!

Amy looks like she is ready to land a plane in that gear

As is tradition for Amy, she always writes a message to her mom in the paint.  Hard to do on white walls so needed to make sure to do it on our one accent wall.  I call this color "Vs Gaming Center Red".

My boys were So excited to be a part of this process.  They each got their own square to paint and had fun artistically painting to their heart's content.  They both did a great job, stayed relatively clean (red paint - eek) and remembered not to take this painting thing to seriously.

Here is our finished room!  So, I admit... Not fully finished.  We need to trim out the windows, doors and our shelving units needs some pretty trim too, but... Looking pretty good. And Oh Boy ~ Look at all that storage in the Closet!!!  Why wait for closet doors!  Lets see if 100% of our Christmas items will fit in this closet!

We are by far not done with our finishing touches on this room (baseboard, doors, etc), but we are going to call it good for now.  Time to finish the bathroom and craft/work room next!