Steps Update

We had temporary basement steps for years and it was finally time to finish them.  Wanted clear Douglas fir to match the rest of the house and it ened up costing $50 per step.  Good thing there were only five.  

Super tricky secret drawers in three of the risers.  

Applied full trim boards on outside of stringers to avoid scribing, but made each tread need to be custom fit to the 1/32" with 2 degree off perpendicular cross cuts.

Raya helped with the screws

 

Cork Floor

I finally finished the baseboards after the floating cork floor went in.

It feels a little hollow under foot, but is very comfortable considering it is directly over concrete.

Basement Bedroom

Bathroom Tile

Painting

Main area is white with a slight linen tint.

I filled all the holes in the joists with dowels and putty.  Sconces are cast porcelain.

Bedroom has a hint of blue

Faces SE with nice morning sunlight

Finally Drywall...

It is a big step to get to drywall.  Endless guessing on fixture and wire locations have been eating up a lot of time.  No more thinking about it now since it is all covered up.  I did leave access in the closet ceilings and along the center beam to get to almost any joist bay if I need to run additional wires in the future.  A single guy was hanging 12' sheets with his handy lift...of course he still had to lift the 82# sheets onto the machine.  The drywall deliverers seemed to have no trouble carrying the double sheets down into the basement.  I guess you get used to carrying 82# all day.  Of course it did shrink the space, but it made it a lot brighter (on this sunny day) so it overall is fine for a low ceiling (7') basement.