It's Coming Together

This phrase has been the theme of the basement renovation and I have to say, it truly IS coming together.  As of this past Monday, all the walls and trim are officially painted.  Fact:  painting trim is a giant pain in the @ss! We happen to have a lot of it (baseboard moldings, crown moldings, fancy door moldings), so it took what felt like forever and a day.  But it is finally done and it looks great.  It's amazing how a fresh coat of white semi-gloss paint on trim can refresh a room.

Also done are the new outlets and switches.  One of the fatal flaws of this house were old, dingy outlets and switches.  When we first moved in, Ed and good friend Rob replaced every single one of them on the first and second floors.  It was quite a task which included a few electrical zaps for both of them, but once finished, it made such a difference.  Yesterday, the outlets and switches looked like this:

And today they look like this:

A low cost upgrade with big visual bang!  And speaking of visual bang, check out this hottie at work!

On tap for tonight (post James going to bed, of course!) is the moving of the new furniture into place, the updating of the horrible light fixtures (more on that in a separate post), cleaning of the paint drops off the floor and maybe painting of the bannister.  The list is never ending...but it's coming together!