Last month for several weekends, I could be found at my parents’ house helping with a major home improvement project – installing a new tile floor in their downstairs living room! If you want to see the progression, check out these posts, here and here.
And after spending the day there yesterday, we can say for all intents and purposes, that the room is complete!
During the last month, since laying the last tile, there have been more mundane and unexciting steps – like grouting and sealing, and mop mop mopping!
Yesterday we re-installed the base molding, puttied, and touched up paint. Mopped again, and then began to bring the furniture back into the room.
Check out the before’s and after’s:
The embarrassingly cluttered and disorganized Before pic! haha
And the organized, cleared-of-clutter After shot!
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Here’s another view:
And then after:
I think that the lightness and subtle variations in the tile color are such an improvement from the flat painted concrete. The whole room feels airier and more polished – like a finished room, instead of a strictly utilitarian basement.
And of course, the process of clearing EVERYTHING out of a space really helps to clear out clutter that has been hiding in plain sight for ages.
There are still some improvements to be made to this space, in my opinion – especially in regard to lay-out and flow (a challenge in a room this big, 685 square feet!). But that will be for another day…