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...