Starting from nothing

At this stage, it's tough to look at the basement as it was, and imagine the final product, given the expanse of dusty concrete and poorly lit walls. The basement just consisted of the insulation that was tacked to the wall, a few pluming rough-ins, and a couple of simple pull-string light-bulbs. Below are the pictures of how the basement looked. I wish I had taken more pictures at this stage (actually, that's one of the reason I'm starting this blog, a place to document the progress).

At this stage, I did tape off the location of the walls. This at least gave some indication of what the basement would look like