It took us a year and a half to get to this point! Today, we get stairs to the basement. We've been walking out and around this whole time.
Photo taken February 15, 2009

A hole large enough to pass things down....
Photo taken February 15, 2009

Unfortunately, we're going to need more headroom and the closet needs to come out.
Photo taken February 15, 2009

We love our friends who work for food!
Photo taken February 16, 2009

Photo taken February 17, 2009

Originally we were going to put a new wall up and a door closing the basement off from the upstairs. We decided we really like this extra light source though, and will be keeping things more open.
Photo taken February 20, 2009

Building a new bookcase.
Photo taken March 2, 2009

The wires have all been taken care of and it's time for mudding. I'll need my sculpting background to fix this sheet rock job!
Photo taken March 10, 2009