Operation Income Suite: Living Room Complete

     We have finally put the finishing touches on the living room of our basement income suite.  After the sweet carpet install that happened this afternoon, we're all set to start work on the kitchen ... it really is a never ending project.  

More Kraken please...

Here's our progress since we began renovations, about a month ago...

The only thing left to do is build a hidden door where that random bed sheet is.  

That's the electrical panel.

and here's the bedroom with the new carpet installed...

here's what it looked like before... yikes!

Good times.

next up for the kitchen...

Electrical & plumbing

Drywall & mudding

Priming & Painting

Laminate flooring install

Trim & baseboards

Install Ikea kitchen

...eff...

Before & After; Small Bathroom Upgrade...Big Difference.

Eventually we will be knocking out a closet on our main floor in order to expand our teeny tiny main bath, which also just so happens to be my least favourite room in our house.

Since that won't be happening for another five years or so, I made some small, inexpensive changes that will hopefully keep me from cringing every time I used the bathroom.

Here's how a small can of paint and some new hardware created a clean and slightly more modern space. Lime green 70's tiles are not easy to work with.

But for now here it is...

Soon we will be painting the walls a charcoal colour and adding a crisp white shower curtain and accents.

...next up... new floors.  Yuck.

Before & After - Income Suite Bedroom & Bathroom

As mentioned in my previous post, we have finally completed the bedroom (minus carpet installation) and bathroom of Operation Income Suite.

We started gutting the income suite in April of 2012.  We were a little a lot more delayed than we expected due to unforeseen electrical problems, i.e. we had to completely rewire the basement and main floor, and not to mention all that baby raising we were doing.

But here it is all nice and pretty...

The Bedroom

All that's left is the finishing touches...

 carpet, closet doors and baseboard.

Paint Colour:  Benjamin Moore - Woodlawn Blue

"Man Cellar" with the shelves removed and a coat of masonry paint.

The Bathroom

The bathroom is our first 100% completed project.

I will probably add a few manly accents at some point.

I'm super jealous of this space.

Paint Colour:  Olympic - Quaking Grass