Basement Project #2 Pink Peg Board

Whenever there is a project it is always good to have another helping hand that is not your wife's! This is where Tom comes in. He seems to know everything about construction and deconstruction. We needed supports to hold up the pegboard. It progressed nicely and now this is where anything broke is put to be put back together and usually dried.

The 2 by 1's.

"Wait not that way."

I love my white ceiling and my happy pink peg board.

I had so  much fun putting stuff on my pink peg board I can actually find thing now.

My fabric is underneath and this is where anything broken goes to be fixed. Love it!!!

Basement Make - Over Ground Zero

I am posting about my basement project because it is the beginning of my new "quilt cave". This began with me trying to scrape the ugly brown paint off the floor with a little brown scrapper I purchased from Pampered Chef! Well, that did not work at all.  Next idea was to buy the liquid gel stuff that smells like citrus and do one little spot at a time.  That citrus smelly stuff almost gave me a heart attack.  Next idea was my husband's to rent a grinder and grind it off.  We would do one side at a time and then the other.  He spent a Saturday morning grinding and I was upstairs with a mask on because cement dust seems to rise. I aborted that mission and began to call around to see if anyone would take on this task. I found a guy  who knew stuff and would even paint our ceiling white! Yae

Our grinding job.

The brown floor and the other side with all of our stuff!

What a mess.

Our poor furnace.

The upstairs ready for Dexter.

Keep the dust out.

Keep my plants safe.

Basement Project #1

Our basement has just gone under a crazy, huge, new floor renovation.  I have slowly gotten rid of anything that doesn't have any meaning and is not purposeful.  I am now in nooks that need a little bit of love.  I could not stand the way the furnace vent looked so I started to paint it pink.  The wires began to stick out more for some reason so I decided to start following them and cutting them. Amen Enough was enough.  My goal was to only paint the ugly vent wall pink then all hell broke lose. This project cost me $20.00!

The beginning.

Looks better but not quite done.

After I painted the chimney pink I could not stop.  I continued to paint the 2 by 4's pink because the room needed a bit more to come alive. Rather, I could not stop.  This little funky area came alive every time I added to it.  The black and white design was a table clothe that I fell in love with so I cut it up and put a piece of Cubs duct tape (Good luck) to hold it on the top and kind of made it fit just by smoothing it out.  I love it!

When  If finished the  room wasn't quite complete.  The drainage pipe stuck out and so did the white piece of wood on the end.

Closer now.

I could not stand the way the vent looked so my wonderful husband came to the rescue and helped me make a template and we added a piece around the vent to cover the yucky pipe. The drainage pipe looked too stark so  I covered it with some of the table clothe that was left over.  I had just enough! I painted the outside piece of wood pink and the whole area now is compete and I can't wait to make it happy with accessories that I have just waiting for a new place to reside.

I have the daintiest water pipe in town!