Day Three-twelve: extreme basement makeover

Work continued on the basement to make it warmer and more livable. Here's what we had to start with on the floor, a cheap (according to one of the guys who installed it) creamy tile. The gaps that you can see in the third photo are where the walls were for the little room that the first owner carved out of this roughly 600 square foot space.

We also had this dust problem left over from all the drywall and plaster work done to the walls and ceiling.

Step one was to get rid of what was there. So our crew took out their assortment of hammers, chisels, and crowbars to get up the old tile.

When last we met we had narrowed our choice down to four tiles from Home Depot and Lowe's. Here's what the winner looks like in a variety of sizes...one tile, two tiles, and one ton of tiles (34 boxes each about 70 pounds).

In the first day of installation the guys have already improved the basement immensely.

Elsewhere in the basement we'll complete the overhaul of the doors in the house by replacing the last old one with a nice wood/glass option from Lowe's.

Finally, we painted the new drywall in the laundry room and installed moulding. Once we get a nice new sink we'll be able to declare the room "done". The makeshift Tyvek door is to keep the dust down from the tile demolition.