Pros & cons of keeping a low basement ceiling exposed/unfinished
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Comments (67)Sorry i didnt not get this earlier Jamie. They were ok but you have to stay on them or stuff wont get done. Their contractors drink beer on the job site. Make sure the contractors are using your specs cause they originally put my shower in the wrong way which would have messed up my bathtub and tile set up. Contarctors spilled a whole bottle of some red sauce they had for lunch on the sub floor and was going to leave it there. i brought to the attention of schumacher and they barely wiped it up, so i went in and cleaned it myself so I would not have ants down the road because their spill on my sub floor (when i say spilled the entire bottle, they left the spilled bottle ontop of the spill, that bottle was full the prior day when i was at the site). I will just say this stay ontop of your builder/project manager like you are monitoring a toddler. i didnt want to micro manage them but if you do not things will get missed even though its on your contract. Example: Shower plumber put in wrong direction, Missing lighting, missed painted spots on the exterior, cleaning is not the greatest prior to you recieving the house so be prepared to go in a do a deep clean once you officially get keys, door swing. These were just the things i did not catch during the build and pointed out after, there were plenty of little things during the build i had to point out to the builder during construction that were add in Precon that they were not doing per my contract. Overall house is good, but i did not like that i had to micro manage them to get what i paid for or i would be missing alot of my paid for items and upgrades....See MorePros and cons of stained or painted woodwork?
Comments (25)I live in a 1937 Cape Cod. All of the original trim and doors were painted (all different colors) when I bought it. The PO had done some 'modernizing' and put in stained wood trim in a more modern style in my office and bedroom. I couldn't wait to get that taken out of my bedroom and paint it. It's painted in my office but one day the style in here will match the rest of the house. I use an 'almost white' for the trim in the whole house. But, I got a bee in my bonnet when I painted the teeny front entry in BM Wythe Blue last January, that the original door would look better stained inside. I FINALLY completed that stripping, sanding, and staining (Minwax English Chestnut) and polying, and the door went back in today. I thought it was part Douglas fir, but a man replacing my original threshold planed down the door a bit to put in new weather stripping and said it's all oak. Can you LOVE a door? The transformation cost me just a few dollars, and what pride I am taking in my little project. But, would I ever do stained trim, though? Absolutely not. Before, when I was playing with paint colors to replace the SW Blonde - And today - when the door went back in. 'Scuse the lamp shade in the lower right! I did other changes in the interim in the entry, too....See MoreDecorating Unfinished Basement for Teen New Years Eve Party
Comments (17)Thanks for the advice - drywall is not an option right now with this timeframe...our son is in college and our daughter is a junior in high school so at this point, we won't be finishing the basement. We do have a bonus media/pool table room on the first floor so this is the usual teen hangout --it's just not big enough for dancing. I did buy some silver tarps and some beige drop cloths to see which one will work better. I was planning on stapling them to the floor joists above. There are some hvac ducts and pipes that we will have to work around so we would need to cut the material to fit around these. I was thinking of trimming this out with duct tape if we use the tarps and with patterned burlap ribbon if we use the drop cloths. Are we safe to have the tarps or fabric next to the hvac ducts? Found a cool large silver ornament that looks like a disco ball on sale at Hobby Lobby and bought 5 strings of white lights so far. The main problem is hiding the storage area. This post was edited by baseballmom94 on Tue, Dec 10, 13 at 11:27...See MoreBasement exposed ceiling
Comments (13)We had an electrician do all the lights outlets etc (to ensure it was to code and prevent myself from getting injured and/or burning down the house). They're 4 in. dimmable LEDs. There's 11 total for the 32x12 foot room (10 for the room itself and one for the bottom of the stairs (where the yellow wall is). They're evenly spaced apart along the 32 foot length, so rough math says 6 ft or so apart. The blue wall to gray wall is 12 feet, I'm not home but looks like maybe three feet from long walls and 6 feet between the 2 rows). We're happy with how it turned out. Originally the ceiling was going to be exposed as this thread started but firecode changed that. That back wall with the door/windows was going to be all brick, making a loft look. Loosing the ceiling meant loosing the loft look, so I didn't want to spend the money doing the brick wall....See Morebry911
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