New Projects!

Greg and I bought our house in November and are absolutely LOVING it! The couple that lived here before us remodeled the kitchen, bathroom, and living room but didn't get to the basement. When we moved in it was a shrine to the St. Louis Cardinals. It's painted red with black trim and has tin on two of the walls. It also came with a giant bar, which we didn't really have a use for.

This is a picture of part of the basement before we moved in.

We decided over Christmas that we were going to take the plunge into our first DIY project. We have plans to take down the tin, re-paint the walls green, put in new carpet, and change the trim to white.

Since I'm terrible at keeping a blog, I thought I'd challenge myself to document our project. Last night we ripped out the bar (well.. Greg did all the hard work, I carried pieces out to the trash). It was fun to see how much room we're now going to have!

Greg hard at work

Starting to remove pieces

Carrying out the top of the bar was super difficult, it weighed a ton and we had to maneuver it through our narrow stairwell

Tada! no more bar, this space is going to be home to our computer when it's finished

We're really excited to tackle this together! I've never done anything like this, and neither has Greg, so we'll see how many bumps we come across and how we handle them, but I think it's going to feel great to accomplish something that will make our house feel even more like home.