Last night I went to the store right after work to get some dinner. Came home and fed the dog and has some dinner myself. Got a couple things together and then let the dog out in to the garage while I touched up a few areas. Finished that and opened the garage up to let it dry. Took the dog out to play a bit and then put her down in her cage. I went back out to mow the lawn real quick and then got the dog back out to chill a bit. Watched a bit of tv and then headed back down stairs to do some priming. I primed until about 9:30. Was able to finish up about half of the utility room. Tonight I plan to moving everything around in the utility room again. I can then prime the other 2 walls I need to finish up. Hopefully after I get those last two walls finished up I can start moving things back to where they should be and move a bunch of stuff from the other rooms into the utility room so I can get going on the other rooms. After a little more touchup last night I believe both the bathroom and office areas are ready for a sanding and check all corners again to make sure they are ready for primer. It has taken a little more time than I thought it would take to get to this point. Hopefully this weekend I can get some primer on those two rooms.

Monday I just relaxed all night so nothing happend that night. Tuesday I setup shop and touched up all rooms in the basement. A few corners needed to be touched up and a few areas in all the rooms needed touchup on little things. Still no primer on anything in the basement. I was hoping to start in the utility room last night but did not. After a quick sanding in the utility room I may prime tonight. That is if I have time after mowing the yard. I have decided I am going to touch up a few seams on the garage ceiling also. That will hopefully take me about 10 minutes to do and then I can prime over those again and also finish the last corner I need to prime and I think I am going to go ahead and prime the wood around the door and trim around the attach access panel. After that the garage will be ready for final coat of paint. So things are moving, just a little slower than I would like.

It has cooled off very nicely the last two days. I plan to take advantage of this nice weather and the house being open and start priming the basement. Jenny is out of town for the next few days taking boards so I think I will use the next few evenings to try to get as much primer up in teh basement as I can. The utility room is ready for primer. I have one bump out area that needs a little touch up and that will be ready for primer also. The main room I have a few areas to touch up before primer. The bathroom I have to look over still but I blieve that room is just about ready for primer also. I need to cauk around the shower to seal that but I believe the rest is ready to have primer. The office area I need to work on a few corners but other than that I believe that room is ready for primer also. Little things here and there all add up but I hope to tackle most of those little things this week. I hope I can have everything primed by the end of the week so I can move on to texturing the ceiling and then get ceiling paint up so I can put all the light fixtures in and have that all finished. Then we need to pick paint color which means we need to pick out carpet and florr covering for the bathroom very soon. I plan on two big ticket items and one small item we will need some cashflow for before we finish the basement. The two big items will be the carpet and cast iron stove. The small items are the floor covering in the bathroom, toilet, and trim work for around windows, doors and bottom of the walls. Trim will probably be 200 to 300 I am thinking. toilet will be another 200. Not sure what we will be doing for flooring in bathroom. Carpet I am hoping it will be no more than 2000 to 4000 dollars. Depends on what we go with there also. Getting close to the end result. Just have to get funds together now to finish. After I finish I want to get a projector so we can utilize this area also. Worst case I can put the big crt projector on a cabinet in the back of the room and use that for a little while.

I got out the rest of the stuff to prime the garage and that was it. Just relaxed last night. I need to get back to the basement and garage. For some reason I work hard for like 3 days and then slack on the projects for a month. If I can keep at it like I would like to, I think I can get the garage all finished soon. Garage just needs prime, paint and trim. The utility room just need primer, I may add a second coat depending on how that turns out. Then I want to prime all walls and ceilings in the rest of the basement and also texture the ceiling. At that point I can paint all the ceilings. We still need to decide on paint color for the walls in all of the rooms.

I think the end is in sight now. Still have a bunch of work on the bathroom. I have sink can cabinets for the bathroom. Need to decide on what I want to do next to the shower (closet or cabinet). Need to buy a toilet and decide on the floor treatment. The only other thing after paint in the office and main room will be trim and carpet. Getting close for sure. After carpet is in I will then start thinking about getting the gas cast iron stove in also.

Here are a few pictures of the basement (a bunch of junk in the middle of everything) before I have primed. I had to move almost everything around in the basement so I could get the walls sanded. It took me just a bit of time to get everything out of the utility room to work on all of the walls. I found quite a bit of stuff that we can probably get rid of still.