Building la casa Savelkoul – The Basement is Born

Yea!

I promised this post a while ago and here it is!  I have pictures of the basement floor, the garage floor, and some of the basement walls.  I know, it’s all very exciting stuff.

Here you will see they poured the flat cement for the garage floor.  I looped past for about 20 minutes and they looked like Stuart spreading peanut butter on his toast.  They were sure to make it perfectly even, perfectly smooth, and perfectly flat.

The flat cement that makes up the garage floor.

Because they were working and it was getting dark, I didn’t get out to get a pic of the basement floor.  By the time I got up there the next day, they had started putting walls in the basement and laying the floor joists.  In the picture below you can see into the basement at our future family room and upstairs at the beginning of the living room and kitchen.

Standing in the garage looking "into" the house.

For the next picture, I swiveled in the garage and took one looking toward the bedrooms.  There will be bedrooms on both levels on this end of the house.

Standing in the garage looking "into" the bedrooms.

We opted to have a daylight basement, so the windows for the two basement bedrooms will be large and will look out over the back yard.

This is a view from the back side of our house.

So, there you have it.  They are framing the upstairs as I am writing this post, so there will be lots to look at and dissect next week!

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