Basement Project

This week mom and I took on the task of putting in new flooring in our basement.  I should emphasize that it was more of mom's hard work than mine because I was at work most of the time, but I did take off two half days to help.  Tuesday at 1:00 pm, we began the project by ripping out the carpet and the foam, and may I say that was disgusting to say the least with all the dirt, dog hair, and dead bugs. Then we began taking out the tack strips.  Finally once that was done we starting laying out the flooring. This process was done and accomplished through trial and error, mostly through error.  It is of course, a little more difficult than it looks on the how-to videos. By 10:00 we had accomplished laying 1/3 of floor, mom had blistered her knees from the knee pads, and Zoey was annoying all of us by pacing around non-stop. 
Day 2, I had to work and then immediately go to class afterwards so I was no help to mom that day.  I got home around 8:30 and much to my surprise she had gotten all of the flooring put down and was now waiting on me to bring home food :) . So we ate, and then I started painted the quarter round trim and that was about it for that day.
Day 3, I worked another half day and got home around 1:30.  Mom had all the trim cut, had already been to Lowes twice today and now was going to start putting the trim down.  But, the paint was too bright.  So, off to Lowes we go for the third time.  We got the right color, got some rugs, she managed to find a bargain rug for $37.00 regular $189! Crazy! Then we got back home, I took a power nap while she was putting the trim on the wall and then I started painting the trim and floor boards.  They were so dirty, it was really disgusting!
All is done, except for some cleaning and putting away of the tools and such.  It all looks so good!  Thanks to Mom! Couldn't do it without her and thanks to her she saved me tons of $$!

And a before photo....

On top of the flooring project  she also fixed my couch, fixed the drainage problem in the downstairs bathroom, towel rack, and she cleaned by garage! Just call her the handy-woman extraordinaire!