The renovations to the basement are coming along nicely. The walls and ceilings needed 500 pounds of mud to make them smooth, they were in bad shape! We took out all the old floors and the concrete is in pretty bad shape, too. We are going to level out and refinish the concrete in a sand color. The tile guys are coming next week to get started on the bathroom. We are going with a subway tile look. Brendan is refinishing the spiral stairs and it looks great! The steps were sanded down to a pretty blond color. When tile and concrete are done we will prime and paint and install the new fir doors and closets. We had someone make a few new cabinets that we will paint over. We were running low on storage. Its looking great! Should be done by Dec. 19th for our first visitor from Oz!

Today we start demo on the entire first floor of our house! This floor is where our guest bedroom and bathroom are. It also has an awkward area where the spiral stairs come down. Then leading into the house we are making a nicer mudroom and blocking off a wall that leads to a very creepy crawl space. The whole floor is very 1960’s and has a certain smell to it. We are so excited to make it look more up to date!

Our garden is going off! We have mixed greens, kale, radishes, herbs for days! Fresh pesto and salad for dinner tonight!