After our huge carpet accomplishment last month, I figured we’d be sitting ducks for a month or so while we saved up and got organized enough for the next step. In the meantime, we’ve been using the basement for The Office and reorganizing the lego sets. Beyond that, nothing has really changed. Its way warmer and comfier and homier down there though! Woot!
Our plan was to go to our supplier at the end of the month for doors, trim, handles, bathroom hardware, etc., and wrap up the basement just before Christmas. But I did some thinking and realized how tight of a timeline that was going to be. Not only was I putting a lot of finishing work on Brady in the last month before Christmas, but we also paint the trim and doors ourselves here at home, which isn’t a hard job but its nitpicky and takes time. Some of Brady’s work for the week dropped off, so yesterday he spoke to his supplier and headed into the city for all the trim and jambs!!
This makes way more sense. I know it makes practical sense to paint all of the things at once, but frankly, the doors and handles have to be ordered, and rather than waiting for them to arrive and painting doors and trim all together, this will save time in the long run. So the trim and jambs came home yesterday and are ready for painting!! When the doors come, they’ll get their turn, but our doors have enough detail and profile in them that painting them is a labour of love, and will take way longer and way more brain power than painting the flat panel trim will. Painting the doors will happen in a couple of weeks when they arrive, but the time for trim is now!!
Thats mostly what’s left. Baseboards. Casing. Doors installed. Door handles. Towel bars. Toilet paper holder. Vent covers. Closet rods and shelves. Light fixtures. Oh, we have to tile under the laundry machines, too, but we have everything for it. We were just waiting for the doors to come and make sense of that whole setup. Curtains would be good, but I know that doesn’t count as renovation materials.
What’s left to come – eight doors, six door handles, and a hand towel bar. Did you guys know many builders will supply a toilet paper holder and one towel bar in a bathroom, but not a hand towel bar?? Or, weirdly enough, they often don’t supply a shower rod!! So you have a big sweaty day of moving in and then can’t shower it off! Bizarre, right?? We’re obviously not having that problem because we’re doing it ourselves, but, interesting info. I think so, anyway.
Wish us luck, friends! We have hopes to have finishing this basement off before Christmas, and it actually feels like a reasonable goal!! I’m SO excited!! Just wait until you see it 🙂