Basement remodel (LOTS of pics)

It's been a work in progress over several months. Most have probably seen a pic here or there (I take a lot of saw pics on the pool table now ) . Some may remember, some may not. But last season the basement was entirely different.

I started by painting the wood stove Honey Glo brown. Then I painted the walls (before Demo). After a few hours of trim painting, the wife comes downstairs and says " Why don't we take down this wall? Then we could move the bar/pool table room over"? Because I had already started to paint the trim work, I almost lost it!!! Then I started to think....... This might work

So down the wall came. After removing the wall and everything that was in the storage room, I painted all the walls. After the walls, I painted the floor. After finishing the floor, I started to bring some Rubbermaid totes of wood downstairs. That's when I noticed the scratches. The floor paint was peeling. Never looked at what they sold me (told them 5 gallons for the walls, and 5 gallons for the basement floors. Better be durable!!) They sold me Latex for the floor as well

Ended up getting more paint (a darker color to match the wood eater and a big discount on it) and also scraping the floor with a wire brush and going over it with a shop vac. So much unnecessary work.

After all the paint, I found a cheap hearth pad on CL. It's concrete downstairs, but I wanted to dress it up a little.

Still don't have the bar moved over. But it's about 10 ft long, by 4 ft tall and has a custom cut piece of glass on the top. I built it in that room several years ago. It's pretty darn heavy.

Here are some pics of along the way. Hopefully I can do a final update with Bar. The fooseball table and the rocking chair will be moved. The chair will likely be gone, the fooseball table will be moved by the pellet furnace.

These pics show what it looked like, the demo, and the original floor color.

 

I've said it before, it looks awesome. Love the pictures and signs you put up. I could definitely put quite a few back, play some 8 ball, and pass out next to the stove. Speaking of passing out, knob creek and coke followed by blue moon all night, I think I'm about done here...

 

After scrapping and getting as much of the latex up off the floor (didn't take a pic... I pretty pizzed off ) I laid down the darker paint. I had the hardware try to color match the wood eater. it's pretty close.

Then we moved almost everything over to the other side. I brought one of my wood racks downstairs (12 footer) which I soon cut down to about 5 ft. The. Hung a bunch of signs, a new TV, and I am still ever searching for "chainsaw" related items. I have one old saw on the way, and hope to have 2 more coming soon. Once the bar gets put into the room, I will be hanging the saws above the back of the bar.



And finally, the picture that started this thread (started a thread on the White Stihl sign I made )

 

X2 bro... Had quite a few Thanks for the compliments.

 

Looks great Dex!

 

Dex that is so cool. It's great seeing all the pics in one place! I love those signs too it really looks like a true man cave that even my wife would like.... Nice job bro!

 

I still need to move the bar over. It's in the old man cave (exact opposite side of basement). Then it will be ready to party

Thanks for all the compliments guys.

Here is where the room used to be. Still need to get some of the signs off the wall from there and I have a few bigger tin signs back in my barn.

 

A Basement Guard Dog battery backup. It's all in one. Came as a package. The Primary pump, back up pump, 2 check valves and 2 switches (each have a back up also, so a total of 4 level switches to male sure the pump knows there is water), the battery, all necessary cables and power wires, and the alarm center (Let's you know what it's doing or what happened). I like it. I tried 2 separate pumps, and with the little kettle I have, it wasn't working very well. These two are piped into one outlet (each has its own check valve though) so it's only one connection you have to male to your existing system. Pretty easy.. A little pricey. But worth it.

 

It's a little ugly under the pump cover

But here is a pic.

 

Mine runs constantly. I took the pic on purpose with it running. But it kicks on 3 times a minute when it's wet/raining/warm in winter. Going on 2 years and runs A LOT!

The back up pump is smaller, but it's enough to keep up (barely) when it's bad. But no flooding yet.