The Ancient Basement–Long time, no see…

Sorry that I have been away so long. It’s been so busy around here since the middle of April when we spent 8 LONG days helping our oldest with his new (1932) house–pulling out carpet, cleaning, painting, putting down hardwood, putting up drywall, and refinishing floors. Shortly after that, we went to help our youngest son move from one apartment to another in the same city. All of that came just after two weeks of extensive outdoor work here at the house and just before we drove to Rye, NY to pick up cabinets for the basement. Between all of that, I was struggling just to keep the house running, and us fed–and staying on top of the yard work has been a CHALLENGE with all the rain that we’ve gotten.

But believe it or not, in the midst of all of it, we were able to finish the Snow Day project from months ago, where we were building in a set of shelves to house all the weird junk I have found over the years. My husband is a saint, really.

Here’s where I left you:

The shelves were up and painted, but lacked the face frame to finish it off.

My husband put the face frame together and sanded it.

Then I primed it and sanded it well all over and my husband installed it.

We had to put the green cabinet you see (actually the base from an old NCR cash register) on the shelf before we added the face frame because the opening is too small for it to fit through.

It’s all painted–2 coats. This paint dries really hard, but it takes FOREVER to dry, so we’ll have to be patient and wait a few weeks to be sure that it’s really good and dry before we put anything on the shelves.

Here are a couple more views:

Eventually, we will add crown molding to this entire wall, and baseboard throughout to finish it off. My husband may add some additional moldings to the case itself. We’ll see.