I REALLY wanted to take a mini vacation this summer - I've been wanting to go to the beach ever since I found awesome deals on Outer Banks rentals. However, it was not meant to be this summer. Instead, we've decided to turn our basement into a family area. Well, it'll mainly be for the kids. As I am saddled with more and more responsibility pertaining to my job, it's become increasingly difficult to be productive when there are 3 kids running around, playing, watching movies, etc...

Here's our basement before starting:



Now, you must know, this was CJ's guitar building 'shop' so there was wood, saw dust, all kinds of tools, and other random things down there and I had to go down there to do laundry!

Old sink we're getting rid of:

We even had our old washer and dryer in there - we had no idea how to get rid of those things. While we were in the process of cleaning the basement out, we got the number of a guy that comes and takes appliances, he gets money for them. When this guy showed up he immediately recognized me from back in the day when I was a lifeguard at the local pool. Yea, this guy and I had a back and forth flirt thing going on for years - it was weird to see him and it made me all giddy, LOL

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Anyway, 'Louie' and Dave and CJ moved the rest of the stuff out of the basement, Dean just stood there and tried to look important:

Here's some of the stuff we needed hauled out, there was a lot more:



Finally, an area cleared out:



This area will be closed off as the utility room and will also be where the washer and dryer will relocated to.

CJ and Dave pondering their next move:

We're hoping this project only takes about 2 weeks. So far it's been a week and the framing has been done and the drywall is up! More pictures to come!