In June my Dad came over and helped me sheetrock the walls in the basement as we had already had the ceilings done over my spring break. A couple of weeks later we hired a guy to come in and tape the seems and texture the walls and the ceiling. So far it's the only thing we have had to hire out but it was worth it. They were in and out in two and half days. There was sheetrock that was cut at the bottom of the stairs from the previous owners but our texture guy did a good enough job you can't tell where the new sheetrock matched up with the old already textured sheetrock.
About a week after getting the place textured we went back to Great Bend as I had my 10 year high school reunion in Ellinwood (good time). While we were there I picked up Dan's paint sprayer. I don't have a picture of it but it is an airless paint sprayer and I sprayed the walls and ceilings in the basement in about 2 hours. Did a second coat in about 30 minutes. So for painting ceilings and priming walls i'd say thats pretty awesome. My dad and I then painted the rest of the basement. Bill was able to come over for the majority of a day and I stayed up until 12:30 painting that night but was able to get the whole thing done. Did some touch up the next day and put the covers on the outlet boxes and the lights.
This past Friday Abby and I ventured over to home depot in Shawnee and picked up 350ft of baseboard trim and six doors. I've got some work to do but we knocked out the trim staining last night in a few hours. Going to poly the trim today and hang doors as well.
I'll be back with some more pictures of the basement but we did go to Lowes yesterday and pick out flooring for the upstairs living room and got some carpet samples. A lowes person will be here sometime this week to measure for the flooring and then we will probably pull the trigger on this project soon! I'm pretty excited about getting this finished as I'm getting a little tired and school is just around the corner. Have a good week!
