Tim and I have been talking for a while about a pretty major project for our upstairs – converting the tv room into a bathroom and shifting most of the current bathroom space into Reagan’s room for a little more space and to give her a closet.
We’ve been tossing this idea around and really didn’t have any pictures of what this would actually look like or which contractor to go with. Then, we went into a store – well, a shop full of older architectural pieces – and they had a beautifully refinished clawfoot tub. We decided that, despite the expense, it was perfect and would be a great start to the bathroom design.
But, we still had the problem of where do we live while the upstairs construction is going on? And, we would be losing a living space and couldn’t come up with a solution for moving the tv to the first floor.
So, we decided the best thing is to add a bathroom and finish part of the basement and to do that first so we can “live” down there while they work on the upstairs. We called one of the contractors we had been talking with and, over the weekend, signed him up to start today! They started today and upgraded our electrical box and they’re starting to move wires and pipes on the basement ceiling.
We Tim spent a few hours in basement over the weekend to start getting things ready. If you have ever even peeked into the basement, you can see that this is a major change already. Most of the things that were piled all over the back portion of the basement are now efficiently packed in the front, hopefully out of the way of all the work.
Now I just hope the Christmas decorations are close enough to the outside that we can get to them in the next few weeks.
