Sydney's Room - Framed

Sydney is 16 months now, so we figure it's time she had her own room. I guess that means we're keeping her. :)

Her room will be the soon to be 3rd room in our house, a little room in the basement off the laundry room.

Actually, we've been wanting to finish this room for quite a while, but a great many things have taken priority. Like college, having babies, working, playing, and trying to update other parts of the house first.

Besides, this little box of a room in the basement has served me well as a junk room. Not sure where to put something? Throw it in the junk room! Can't find something? Check the junk room! Where is the cat? Probably locked in the junk room!

Well, as you can imagine, the room got full. So two weeks ago I had a yard sale and got rid of almost ALL of it. It was wonderful. I sold about $50-worth of items and put the rest on the lawn with a "free" sign. Within hours most everything was gone. Yahoo! It's so nice to get rid of junk.

Anyway, back to the now de-junked room. It already has four walls and a door, so the size was already set. Two walls are foundation, one wall is cinder block, and the other had weird wall board that we took off -- to expose some old framing, the other side of which is the boys' room we build a few years ago. 

Also the ceiling had some weird really thin drywall. So Jon and my dad removed the weird wall board and also the drywall on the ceiling.

 

So here is our starting point. The white wall on the left is foundation. The weird white board in the middle of that wall is covering up the cement stairs that go up to the yard. Outside is an old trap door/cellar door. 

  Here you can see the cinder bock wall and the door on the right.

We hired a handy man (thanks tax return!), who framed the whole room, including a closet (right) and also a basement window. I can't believe how much light it lets in! It feels so much less basement-y in there.

  

As you can see, the room is just off the laundry/food storage area in the basement. Dallin is no doubt getting into the Christmas decorations.

Outside view. The handyman also poured a concrete wall about halfway down the stairs (I'll post a pic of that later). This is because since there is no gravel below, like most window wells, if it rains water will go into the house. So we have a window well cover, which is sort of like plexi-glass. It only comes in a certain size, or window well size. So he poured a concrete wall so we can install the treated wood frame, and then the window well cover.

It'll all make sense once we actually get that part done. For now we just have the trap door closed.

Next step -- hire someone to drywall and mud and tape the room. 'Cause we really don't wanna.