Home Remodel Stage 1: De-Uglify

I've never really lived my life by the book. In other words, nothing in my life is ever done normally as evidenced by our new house. You know, the basement.

In case your curious here's the rough plan of our remodel:

Stage 1: De-Uglify- Make the current basement situation livable. You'll read more about this in this post.
Stage 2: Expansion- Where little basement house becomes a real house with a top floor and everything. Expected completion Summer 2014.
Stage 3: Beautify- Make our brand new house beautiful with new decor and furniture.
Stage 4: Flourish- Do some gorgeous landscaping.
Stage 5: Gut the Butt- Gut and completely re-do the basement with dry wall and other things that real houses have.

Here's stage one in action!

Stairs:

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Living Room:

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Bedroom 1: 

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Bedroom 2:

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Still in progress...temporary storage room

Hallway:

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 Kitchen:

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During: I was dancing on the new floor to try it out.

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It's a work in progress. But stay tuned..there are more fabulous remodels to come. The next step is finishing bedroom 2 so it can be Evie's room. I can't wait!! But first, a trip to Georgia.