Current Status

Here's the finished fireplace and a few of the painted walls . The next step is building free standing storage cabinets for another room. Today we sanded and primed part of the pieces. Ill try to post more pictures in a few days.

Jose and Brian at the end of the day. The fireplace is done ! The hearth and mantle are coevered in plastic til the final cleaning of the stone.

FInishing the firplace

The next step was to finish the fireplace. We picked out the stone and found a beautiful peice of solid cherry for a mantle. Brian got everything ready but was feeling a little out of his comfort zone. The Lord sent us Jose, a professional stone mason Brian had met at the brick company to help. Jose volunteered to come and help Brian for a day. They were able to finish the entire fireplace in 11 marathon hours. alot of trips up and down the basement stairs to cut the stone in the garage. Brian stopped counting at one hundred trips. The finished product is beautiful and we are extremely grateful for our new friend Jose. We couldn't have done it without him.

basement project

This fall we started a remodel/finish of our basement. These pictures are for our family and friends who have asked for pictures. We have drywalled and insulated the outside walls, built built-in cabinets at one end of the large room, installed a gas fireplace. All this was done before Christmas. We cleaned the basement up for Aidan and Jaxon to be able to play . You can see the fireplace in the corner behind the chair. It is just installed in the drywall for now.