Finally a finished finished basement!

When Jeff and I moved into our house last April, the basement was finished. We didn't need to do anything with it! We were so excited that we would have a finished basement and that we wouldn't have any work to do.

As the snow began to melt, we quickly learned that our finished basement was soon going to be unfinished. Water was leaking in through the wall and pooling in the middle of the room. We ripped back the carpet and tore down the wall. To fix the water problem, my dad moved dirt in the backyard and we got new gutters, hoping this would fix the problem. Jeff and I could not wait to find out this spring if the gutters fixed the problem so we decided to finish the basement.

Again, with LOTS of help from friends and our awesome neighbor, Ryan, we have finished the basement. We put up more drywall, painted it a new color (one that would look good with the bar Jeff put in the basement), put the carpet back, and cleaned up the dust.

We still have some work to do with decorating and finishing the bar, but at least all of the dust is cleaned and we can at least be in the basement. Yes, Michael Jordan will be living in our basement bar, much to my chagrin. Thanks to a rainy Sunday, we are able to check more items off our list! Maybe by the time we are ready to sell the house in a few years, we will be finished with all of our projects!