Well, with the storms that we had Tuesday night and into Wednesday, our basement flooded and only caused some damage to the base of the walls and the carpet. Well the carpet sucked to begin with. It was this nasty, skanky blue-gray color and was anything but inspiring. That may have been one factor why I just don’t enjoy spending a lot of time down there unless I’m glued to my monitor.

After moving important gear out of the way, we began ripping up the wet carpet and throwing it outside. Later I went over to Home Depot to buy some subflooring and some cool vinyl tiles—totaling almost $470 in materials.

Well this evening I went gang busters on the floor and have much of the subflooring installed, save for area by the stairs and along that wall. But all of those pieces that I have to put in require some custom cutting…and it was getting a little too late to keep at it.

I’ve also picked up some cool paint…adding to the overall bill of course. But it’s pretty cool. Two of the walls will be a nice rich, milk chocolate color, two of the walls a nice light tea green, and the ceiling a nice light khaki-green. Of course, because our house is so small, I have to do things in the basement in stages.

I had to do part of the floor, move things over, do more of the floor, shift things over, etc.—kinda like one of those puzzle things that has nine spaces, but eight picture objects and you have to shift things around in order to get the puzzle solved. Kinda challenging.

But this will also be a cool opportunity to make the basement cool and an enjoyable place to play, write songs, brew beer, etc.

Anyway, it’s going to be a busy weekend filled with things that I didn’t really intend to do…like remodel the basement.

August 3, 2006, 10:00 pm

Filed under: Home Improvement

2 Comments »

1. Jamison said,

   August 3, 2006 @ 10:40 pm

   Cool dude. I remember when I put in a new sub-floor in my old houses kitchen it was like a puzzle. I had to use small pieces so that I could get them in my car, but it worked well since I had to work around a small kitchen.

   It’ll be nice down there once you’re all done. Remember when you lay tile to always start in the middle

2. Michael said,

   August 4, 2006 @ 10:17 am

   Actually…with the subflooring, the instructions said start from the corner.

   And as far as “the middle”…the basement is so weird as it is, that there really is no “middle”.

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