Basement Kitchen

In case you haven’t heard, Tim decided to give up his Train Room and finish off that space–even taking out the wall and bar area, which totally opens it up.  After much deliberation on how to finish that space, it made the most sense to make it into a kitchen.  We couldn’t turn it into a bedroom because there was no window access, and just finishing it into an open room seemed like a waste of space.  Plus with the amount of entertaining we do it will be awesome to have a place to put food downstairs.  Plus the kids are excited about having more space to play and having hard floors to roll their cars and stuff.  They often want to do that on the main floor and I always send them downstairs because it’s too noisy, and then they complain that there’s no hard floors downstairs… so it’s a win win.  😉

Tim is making outstanding progress on the new kitchen.  He’s torn out the old bar area and wall and run all the wiring (not actually hooked up, but all ready).  He’s also run the plumbing for the new kitchen sink as well as installed the new recessed lights.  We’re waiting on the inspection and then he’ll start putting up sheetrock.  Yippie!

Wanna see a picture?

First let me refresh your memory with a before picture….

And now (drum roll)… (this picture is a couple of days old)