The Ancient Basement–Our first adventure in dry wall

In our basement, some of the walls were drywalled and painted when we bought the house, but others were not, and we have a lot of walls that are cinder block that we have painted with dry loc paint.

My husband has wanted to hang the drywall because the exposed insulation just sucks the light out of the room because it is dark and not at all reflective. So, we ordered drywall when we ordered the materials to frame out the closets in the basement. Also, in preparation for hanging drywall, we have watched multiple videos on YouTube about how to do it properly, and tips and tricks for the easiest way to do it. (Yes, we are the most glamorous people you have ever seen.)

The closet that we framed out and hung doors for required some additional framing in order to hang drywall–mostly we had to add short pieces of 2 x 4s over the doors so we had something to attach the drywall to. Once we had that done, we started hanging the drywall.

Here is a before and after:

We didn’t do above the closet doors on the outside because we need to install a couple of LED strip lights inside the closet.

It’s amazing how much brighter it is with the same lighting.