Delicious Recipes to Keep my Family of Four Happy and Full
Construction of our basement quietly finished up right before Christmas. There is a still a TON of decorating and detail stuff to do but the basement is finished and open for play time.
Want a quick tour?
First, let’s take a look at what the plan for the basement was:
And here is where we started:
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Ok, so say you’re building a house or maybe finishing a basement. One of the key components of that is going to be walls, right?
Well, when adding drywall to those walls, there are a few key things to think about:
1) How much sound proofing do you want in those walls? Sure, you can insulate to provide some sound deadening. BUT, if you are going to be using it as a music or theater area, you might consider getting specialty sound proofing drywall like QuietRock.
We used the QuietRock in the theater area walls and ceiling.
It is usually denoted by a different color as you can see here:
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Shoved somewhere between dance, dinner club and other errands, we Mathlete managed to make some basement progress. I take partial credit since I was on full time kid duty while Mathlete worked in the basement.
See all those wood beams? Yep, that is framing of a wall. We have wall framing…at least in parts of the basement.
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Remember Mathlete and his planning bug? Well, we are moving right along with those plans! Over the holiday break, Mathlete went over and picked up our building permit.
Yep, sorry neighbors…we are those people with the bright orange poster in the window.
While he has dreams of lumber and electrical wiring, I have my little mind churning on what will go in the rooms once they are all built. Want to see a few?
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