Getting ready to work on the Dining Room

That simple statement actually leads to a bit of work. In order to start the dining room, which by the way will help finish the kitchen since they share a wall and a ceiling, means cleaning it out. Cleaning out the Dining room means that the first requirement is to work on the basement, a bit. The Den has been the catchall for everything large and currently not needed, the Dining room has caught everything currently in use and items that were already there and need to be moved out. First this means all the power tools, hand tools, paint and supplies need to be put away. Now, putting the items away sounds like a quicker enterprise than it actually is. You see, most of the tools and supplies weren't here when this work was started and never had a home, hence...off to the basement to make an area for these to go.

The first step was to clear an area, yes the basement is as cluttered as the rest of the house was. With the community dumpster, I financed, now gone, this means clearing an area with the least amount of scrapping as possible. So the area selected is that between the hot-water heater and the oil tank.

I intend on repainting the entire basement walls and floor and making them a little more water tight. I picked up three gallons of Dry Loc for this purpose. If you have never used Dry-Loc it is sort of like painting with Silly Sand, (search your memory). It pours like mud, it loads onto a brush like mud, and it spreads like ... yes you guessed it...wet concrete.

I have decided to paint the north and south walls and the half north wall in gray, while the the longer east and west walls will be painted white. Actually not only will this give a nice off set, but I have already painted a section of the east wall near the washer and dryer in white, and the paint I picked up and started painting with was gray, so...decision made for me.

For storage I picked up two simple snap together steel and wood racks, one is still packaged and will be used on the wall near the washer while the other has been built and is now alongside the painted south wall.

The area behind the furnace has yet to be painted because i will be replacing the basement door and window first, and the area behind the oil tank still needs to be done, once the tank and area beneath it are cleaned.

The floor will be painted later and that paint I will bring up the wall about 6".

So, now with all the power equipment out of the way, it just leaves...

Everything else (sigh)