Last room in basement done - working on house in town

I've posted some of the stuff I've been doing at the other house, on the other blog.  I thought I'd take a moment to update you on our progress on this blog. 
We did get the trim up around the last room we were working on in the basement.  Remember, it's the room that's not really a room!  It is the area that has doors that lead to other rooms.

 We also got the lighting done.

 

 And we have filled it up with stuff.  Stuff that I am now working on getting rid of!  I know....

 No I do not want to get rid of the pie safe!  With help, I have moved anything that has storage capacity into this room.  The thing is, we've moved stuff from one house to the other so fast, and so often that I haven't had a break to put things away before we started moving it again.

 And for the last month, we have been working on the other house. 
These are pics -below- from our house in town that we are moving from....
This room no longer looks like this...but I've been amiss at taking pictures.  I know, I can't believe it either.  

 And this room no longer looks like this.

 We have set up tables to get ready for a moving sale.

 We have cleaned out every room upstairs....and painted....

 and two rooms on the main level are cleaned and painted...

 and look at this basement!  Empty except for the washer and dryer.  It has NEVER looked this way.

 When we bought this house, we bought it off of the original owners, who had it built in the 1940's, and it was full of stuff.  We had to move stuff out before we could move in.  They were 92 and in a nursing home.

 The freezer is gone now too.

 The really fun part is that I've been finding stuff I forgot I had.  See that little triangle in the pic above?  It's under the stairs storage.  I put stuff in it and forgot about it!

 Love this cake stand!

So, between cleaning, painting, stashing, storing, selling, packing, and moving, I haven't taken time to blog.  And I would like to put out a special thank you to Andrew, Marilyn, Marcia, Mom, Dad and Gloria for their help.  It means a lot. And thanks to Vickie too....for coming over and keeping me company and knitting while I painted!

Cindy

The last 'room' in the basement...

 Here's the room Dave has been working on, building a closet in it for his work clothes, putting insulation and osb on the walls....

 Inside the closet while I was painting it (a couple of weeks ago)

 You can see the newly built closet in these pics...

 OSB on all of the walls...

 including up the stairs.

 A peek inside the closet.  Don't hate, those are all his clothes and shoes, except for one rod on the bottom left for my summer shirts.

 This picture gives you an idea of where we are working.  You can see the door to this room leads into our bathroom, and living area.

 And I've been using the pantry. 

 We both spent the last two days priming and painting this room.

 TA DAAA the painting is finished.

Next we need to put trim up around the door and along the floor.  It's a basement, it's not a room we'll ever really use, but I have some ideas of what I want to do with it once we get moved upstairs.  And guess what....when we get this done, and finish with the molding and trim on the stairs, we will be working upstairs!  I am SO excited.

 

Cindy

Back at it...finishing the last room in the basement

I haven't posted in awhile because we haven't been doing much to the House on Hilltop Farm except stuffing it full from the other house.  I can't remember if I told you, but our theory was to live in one room in the basement and take everything else from the other house and put it upstairs in the new house.  Well....just how are we going to work on building upstairs if we have a bunch of stuff in our way?  So, we are still moving our stuff from the other house,

but we are trying to cram it all in the basement of our new house, except for the part we are living in.  It's not working out too well.  {sigh}

We do have one more room to finish in the basement, and we have finally started on it.  Thing is, it's not really a "room" per se'.  It's the area you walk into when you are walking down the stairs, from the upstairs.  It has a lot of doors that lead to all of the other rooms in the basement.

There was discussion between drywall or osb for the walls.  OSB won.

This corner above is going to get a closet.   For now it will hold Dave's work clothes, hunting clothes, work boots, etc.  Later...who knows.

Behind this door to the right is a pantry.  It held all of Dave's tools for working in the basement, but now that we're down to one room, and we need the space, he's cleaned it out and I'm using it for overflow.

So here we are folks....back at it!

Cindy

Moving and the last two weeks!

Ok so I realize I haven't blogged for a long time.  There is a reason.  I am going to attempt to explain and get all caught up in this one post.  On September 22, we moved into the one room in the basement of our house on Hilltop Farm....the one I have been blogging about on this very blog.  I realized right away I needed help, so I called in the troops.  Mom & Dad!

We started moving stuff in and they started cleaning.  (You can read more about that on my other blog by clicking here)

So we moved what we needed to live in one room in the basement.

 And here we are living in the basement, no tv, no internet, and the fog rolls in and I felt VERY ISOLATED.

 But life in the basement goes on.

We decided I needed a shelf between the two cabinets so Dave built me one...

 and I went to a local coffee shop to blog...

 and work on boxing stuff up and cleaning in the house in town that we left in a big mess. So far I have one bathroom done and half a bedroom. 

 And I did a tiny bit of halloween decorating....

 and finally on Saturday I got wifi!

and more shelves!!!  It's starting to look and feel like a home.

and every night poor lil' Dixie would just cry in his cage so we made him and Winston a bed on the floor at the end of our bed.  They sleep through the night now and don't cry and I love it.

And my man is the only man I know that can spend days on end building a coat closet...

 but it's starting to look good and feel like home. 

And I love it!

Cindy