-Lawrence Malysa: the birthday gift.
-Sikma Construction: doing the majority of the work.
-Irmgard Malysa: the lovely couch (the capstone of the project.)
-James Eshelman: the 30+ hours of plaster & drywall work.
-Lydia Eshelman: putting up with the mess and my irritability through this whole project.
-Brian Anderson: many hours of labor and theological discussion.
-Paige Jaquith: many hours of labor and design ideas.
-Marion Pickering: design ideas.
-Starbucks: getting us through!
Enjoy the pictures. This adds a whole new dimension to Life on Union Avenue!
Here is one of the closets and some shelving...Lydia and I cataloged and alphabetized the thousands of books in my theological library to add to the project.
All of our artwork is vintage (teens-40s) posters that deal with books. This one is from a story hour club at a library.
This is my work area. Doug Sikma calls it the catacombs. (Google it.)
Here are more of the fantastic shelves. Notice the "butter cream" color in the background.
Here is the bathroom door. The bathroom is not finished at this time due to funds running out. We will finish this with-in the year.
A fantastic column that Doug Sikma built. The crown moulding is from the Lanning's 1860's Stick Style Victorian (thanks Ray!).
Here is the window seat which opens into a toybox as well as the built in bookshelf that holds some of our children's books. (This poster is from a children's story collection from 1915.)
Here is the couch as well as the stairs towards the kitchen. We love the carpet.
This is Lydia's work area. (It looks a little messier than mine but it is really well organized.) The poster here is a World War I poster requesting books to be mailed to the boys fighting in Europe.Stop in and see it! (Basement warming party TBA!)
9 comments:
Nate it's the warmest room in your house and I LOVE it! What a great area for your family to live in!
Cool basement, Nate! It looks really warm and inviting. Good job, 'ya guys!
I can't wait to sit in your gorgeous basement, talk, and drink coffee. I especially like all the books, the art, and the pretty curtain.
I still say that wall looks pink.
Nah, it's more of a peach/clay color.
It looks great!
It looks great! Where'd you find those posters? I love 'em!
Thanks, I'd love to come to a basement warming party! I'd love even more to see our bathroom remodel done sometime before 2010. (2 years and counting so far.) Good job y'all.
Hey guys, miss you! Hope you had a good time in Corey, even if the ride home was a bit rough according to Uncle Bee.
The Sunday school kids kept asking where she was, and I took the opportunity of teaching them a new word to add to their developing lexicons. "Pennsylvania". By the end of the lesson when Jack would said "Anna?" and point to where her picture usually is on the board, Ben would say "Penlavana!"
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