We have finally had enough of our crappy basement from the 50’s and finally decided to do something about it. 

When we first moved in, we had high hopes for this basement. But what we realized is that neither of us know how to do many handy things around the house, let alone have the desire.  When we took down the fake bar thing in the corner (what it was for is beyond me) we found about 200 time magazines shoved behind there.. and thankfully no mice. We also found Electricity 101, and that is the foundation this house was built on. Whenever the job needed doing, the previous owners (I will refer to him as the “old man”) really skimped out on things. 

For example. I was trying to put new Christmas lights up and exchange the ones that were stapled to the roof. Well when I got to the end of the roof where it turns into a corner, the old man simply CUT the wire because he didn’t want to string anymore lights. You may ask, did he put anything on the wire to seal it? No, it was a live wire on my roof.

So in the demolition of this basement we find newspaper serving as insulation, we find a thin mask of insulation on half the walls, half of them there’s nothing. And we find this:

And this:

Yes there was crap in every orifice they could shove it into. There were glass panes, there were a few silver dollars, some plaque about God.  It amazes me the crap people would keep vs throw away!

I will continue to update you all on the reconstruction of the basement. As it now stands, it’s very empty and bare.  Gosh, I should have just bought a new house LOL