Rec Room: After

This room is the second largest transformation of the house so far. I wish I had before pictures of this room.

Basically it was a Sea Foam Green Nightmare. When we purchased the house we were aware of a small leak in the corner of the room where the large window is.

What we didn't know is where the said leak was coming from. It could have been a very expensive foundation job.

Lucky for us it wasn't. Who Ever put the Windows in originally, installed the correct drainage ect. They just missed something, they didn't put some sort of screen over the drain pipe. They also planted a garden in the window well.

What ended up happening over the years is the run off dirt filled the drain pipe and rotted away the window frame. Water and dirt leaked in.

The fix worked out to $50 in materials and Dave spending a day of hard labour to fixing it.

Once the leak was fixed it meant we could then fix up the rec room. We started the room on a Saturday night and by Tuesday we were putting everything in.

Dave and I took on different Jobs this way we didn't have to wait for Mr. O to go to bed.

He emptied the room and took out the gross green carpet. We found two layers of tile and a plywood sub-floor which meant we were good to go.

I then spent the next day painting many many coats of white.

1 coat primer
2 coats flat on the ceiling
3 coats semi gloss on the walls
2 coats gloss on the trim

I had missed a spot and used the wrong luster to fix it what a pain.

The next day Dave and his dad put down the Laminate. We were very luck to have got everything on sale for this room. The whole room including the leak cost less than $275. can you believe that it still blows my mind.

So with our further a due.

The After Pictures