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Hi there! Welcome back! Here we are looking at the first wall of studs finished. These were the hardest to put up due to various reasons. We had to build it one at a time against the wall and screw the top in place carefully to avoid the pipes that run up to the kitchen sink. Jeffery went to the ER before we started this so I did all the cuts since he was working mostly one handed. Once we were finished with the wall against the concrete bricks we were able to build our next wall on the floor and raise it up. Here Jeffery is drilling a hole for some wiring to pass through.  Wall all stood up. Jeffery is trying to fit it under the floor joist. Here he is shooting nails into the concrete to secure the new wall into place. Stood up secured in place and the remaining studs put in one at a time. Here we are deciding what to do with this wall. They say hind sight is 20/20. We should have just pulled this one out too because the 2x4s were...

Hi there! So this is a huge project that we decided on a whim to start, and then we had to promise ourselves to finish our other on going projects after we finished this. And we're finishing this all at once.  No more project jumping. This is part one of a long post. Let's start with before pictures of the basement. This is what you saw upon coming down the stairs. Jeffery took the drop ceiling out previous to this photo, after the florescent lighting fell out and exploded. He spent an evening down here with the mask on his face cleaning up that. He also removed the deplorable casing that once covered up the furnace. You can see the discoloration on the concrete from it. (The far right of this picture use to have wood shingles that you will see an example in another photo.) This wall was to the right in the furnace room, and the door takes you into the sewing room, which looked like this: The light didn't work in there, it was super d...