The excitement begins!

We got our flooring, trim and doors removed just in time for the carpet-layers to come today.  Here are the before pictures of our empty basement (minus the one room we shoved everything into). 

Today they put in all the spikes and the underlay.  Tomorrow they will start on the carpet!  I can't wait till it is finished and we can get everything put back together (more like 'finally' having everything in place since we first moved in 3 years ago).

Ian also painted (for me) the wall above the fireplace.  It was white but I thought the fireplace would stand out more if the wall above it wasn't white as well.  He still has some trim to put around the ceiling and we are going to put some faux stone directly around the fireplace insert (instead of the ugly tile that is currently there).  It will look like a million bucks after this is all complete!!!!!

We discovered while removing the old carpet that this fireplace was built on top of the old carpet! (the horror).  I'm pretty sure that isn't fire regulation, and if we didn't have to destroy the whole thing to make it right, we would have.  We (of course by 'we' I always mean Ian) had to cut around the fireplace to get the carpet off.

Stay tuned for pictures of the next phase!