Before and After

When Rich and I bought this house, there was a room in the basement that used to terrify me. I thought that this is the type of room someone could use as a torture chamber, or the kind of room you find an 18 year old whose parents have locked them in, never allowing them to leave or see the light of day until one day they are discovered by some nosy journalist/neighbor. YIKES! Anyway, we used it to store misc. items... but when we found out we were adding a little person into our lives, we realized that we needed to do a little remodeling so we can have room for our little lady. We plan on putting the baby upstairs in our spare bedroom and make the "rock room" our guest bedroom. Rich began working on it several months ago and this is what it looked like then.

Yikes!! Doesn't it give you the creeps?!? This is what it looks like today!

Oh, my! Rich sure made some improvements! He did everything himself (except laying the carpet). He framed the room, exposed the original beams in the ceiling, drywalled it, painted it, cut out all the wood pieces for the counter tops, and shelves. He built the cupboards and shutters for the window. He did the electric wiring and gave us some good lighting and electricity. Here are a few more pictures...



It isn't creepy at all anymore! I am SO proud of him for doing such a great job on the room. He put so many details into it that I never would have thought of. It far exceeds my expectations. I sure love that guy and appreciate what a hard worker he is!!