Gettin' Nasty with the Basement

You may remember about a month ago, we decided to set up Aaron's workshop and try to get better organized. If not, go here. Well, we've worked on that in fits and starts ever since, but since we need to move the old fridge down there, this morning we worked down there for a few hours and finished up most of the organization and got ready to start demo again. We've got a few things that still need to go up to the attic, but we've made a LOT of progress.
Here is one view of the workshop about an hour ago-

And another view of the workshop-

We're almost done with the workshop area. All that remains in there is to redo the electrical, work out a better storage solution for the long pieces of wood, and put in the windowsill.

Here is a view of the living room area of the basement. We got all of the stuff that can't be moved out during the demo shifted to the middle of the room and covered. We've got to demo the ceiling, the paneling off the red wall, and the yellow back wall in here, then box in our utilities closet, put a partition wall up to separate the shop, and add studs to the outside wall. Then we'll drywall and put down new carpet. Hopefully this will be enough to refinance and finish the space off nicely.

Here is the picture of the laundry area. This area will need a lot of work. The bulk of the work for the utility closet will be in here, the laundry sink has to be demo-ed, the dryer needs to be moved next to the washer, and we have to relocate an old sewer pipe that is sticking up 3' out of the floor. Then the floor has to be leveled. Then we need walls and sheetrock before the refinance. After the refi, this room will get nice cabinetry and we'll use the granite countertop that we bought in here to made a laundry/wet bar combo area. One day...

Stay tuned for an update as Aaron races to finish the exterior trim before sunset. Isn't it fitting that things are so busy at Nightmare on Elm St. right before Halloween???