Basement update

We've been working on lots of things in the basement lately and here are a few pictures:

We put shelves up in the closet in Trisha's scrapbook/craft room. Everything is still in boxes until the rest of the room gets finished.

This is going to be a long desk in Trisha's scrapbook room. We're just waiting for the counter top to be cut to size.

This is a tall craft table Jon's dad made for Trisha's scrapbook room. We're also waiting for the counter top for this one too :)

We had a little fiasco in the bathroom. Turns out that right where the cabinet was screwed in to the wall was a water pipe. We didn't notice water for a few days since the screw somewhat acted as a stopper and only allowed a little bit of water to leak out. When we unscrewed the cabinet water started gushing out of the wall and the floor was covered in water! We tried quickly to remove the cabinet but couldn't get it out so we had to take the trim off both sides of the wall. While doing this Jon made a big dent in the wall trying to pry the trim off. So, now all of it is getting fixed and luckily nothing was really damaged from the water. Once we bought the counter top for the vanity we found that it's a little too big since the vanity sits against the wall and the counter top is supposed to hang over...thus causing the sink to be too far over for the left drawer to fit in, so we are going to sand the right side down so it will fit better. We also noticed that once we got the cabinet in the light above it isn't centered, so we'll have to move that over too. We're glad this is really the only room we've had problems in...hehe!

We bought this cabinet the other night at Circut City's closeout sale. It matches perfectly with the color of the kitchen cabinets. This is going to house all of the electronics, such as the receiver, DVD player, Wii, X Box, cable box, and radio.

This has been a very exciting week for Jon because he's had many boxes delivered for the basement. He got his projector and the screen so far, and we're still waiting for the receiver, the mount for the projector, and some wall plates that hide the wires.
This is the wall where the screen for the projector is going. You can see the screen material laying on the floor. We are going to make the frame for it to be attached to then we'll put it on the wall above the speakers.

We also got the counter top for the kitchen this week! The cabinets were installed a couple weeks ago and the counter top is installed. The molding at the top of the cabinets still needs to be installed, as well as the sink. So, the basement is coming out nicely and even though there are still a few things left to get done, it's come a long way and we're excited to have it done so we can actually use the space!