We finally decided that the basement needs to be finished before our 2nd kid comes along. Our current upstairs office is going to turn into a baby room. And since Sarah uses the office a lot for Creative Memories work, we need more livable space downstairs. I’ve had the plans drawn up for quite a while, now it’s time to act on this!

• 2/28/2005 Update: I bought all the wood for this project when it was on sale this week. Save tons of money doing it this way. Now I just have to pick the wood up at some point. 100 here, 100 there, we’ll have it all!
• 5/13/2005 Update: Today I picked up the last of the 2X4′s that I bought. Nearly 300 of them in total. I also started framing the walls this weekend. I completed the half wall and a portion of the office end wall. I did a lot of research on soffits to figure out how to build around my pipes. I also had an issue with framing parallel to the floor joists. I had nothing to attach to. But with the help of Steve/Chad/My dad, we figured out a couple options that would work. I decided to just bump my wall out an inch or so, so it would bump up with the joist and give me something to attach it too. This also is nice because I’ll have some room to run the wiring behind the wall instead of through the wall.
• 6/4/2005 Update: Well, I finally got moving on this project again. I moved ALL of our boxes and junk from the basement to the garage. This will definately help me get going, since I have room to move now! The garage is PACKED full of junk though. Oh well, garage sale in a few weeks will get rid of some of it. I also switched my plan around a bit. Instead of putting 2 bedrooms in the back, I am just going to put 1 larger bedroom. I printed out new floor plans that night! Time to finish up the framing!
• 10/3/2005 Update: It’s a good feeling to come home from work and see that stuff is done in the basement. Today, Chad and Steve worked on the storage room in my basement. They framed out the room and built in our storage shelves for our blue bins. I moved all of it out of the garage and into the storage room where it belongs. Great work guys and thanks.
• 10/15/2005 Update: We made some progress!!! My father in law and two brothers in law (Steve, Josh and Chad) came over this past Saturday and we pounded out some more framing. We finished up the kids playroom and the storage room. We only worked for about 6 hours but a lot was done. One more BIG framing day and that task will be complete.
• 11/26/2005 Update: The framing is about 95% complete. The crew worked again and put all the walls up! Now we just need to finish out a few areas of the framing and then attach everything to the floor using bolts.
• 12/15/2005 Update: We got the walls attached to the floor and some final framing completed. Ready to begin wiring! I’ve been working on my wiring plan in hopes to have a sweet automated basement!

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