The Basement Project: Week One, addendum

[persimmonfrost]

I promised photos, didn't I?

Taken from just past the laundry area and where we keep the freezer and supplies, so there's a good ten feet of basement behind me.

I'm telling you, it looks like hell.

This, as my mother used to say, will be worse before it gets better.  This is part of the work area.

More of the workspace.

 

So there you go, this is what we're facing over the next months.  It's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it.  BTW, I noted again when I went downstairs, what a terrific job Glinda did cleaning up the laundry area.  Yeah, the part I didn't show you.

Comments

[tazlet]

The basement...where old electronics go to die. If you did a classic paint, gild and stencil job on that high chair you could make someone very happy.

[persimmonfrost]

Yeah, we've been talking about that high chair for a while now. Got any suggestions for a non-toxic finish that will protect whatever we paint on it?

[tazlet]

Actually, shellac. True Fact: it's what Reese's Pieces are coated with (and you never saw so many appalled conservators in your life).

[tazlet]

...because they opened the snack bags that had been sitting on their chairs and were stuffing their faces when the industry rep informed them of that little factoid.

[tazlet]

Yeah, bug shit.

[persimmonfrost]

Hahahahaha... if we use it and sell the thing, I'll be sure not to tell the proud parents that their little darling will be sitting on bug shit.