"Progress," Basement Edition

We have posted a lot of incredible progress in our house. The top three floors look awesome and we are so excited. The basement, however, is another story. 

We haven't really talked about the basement on the blog before. When we bought the house, it had a small old kitchen in the back and a studio/junior one bedroom front room. The space was really quite nice, with windows in the front and back and high ceilings, but, like the rest of the house, in need of an update. 

The plan is to update everything in the basement and add a laundry room. Unfortunately, when we pulled up the flooring we noticed that there were some wet spots in the floor and our plumber suspected that there was a crushed pipe under the cement. 

Here is what the basement looked like before the reno: 

And here is what the basement kitchen looks like now:

Yep.  It's not pretty.

The plumber confirmed that the pipe was crushed and dug up the floor to replace it. What we also found when he did that was that there is only a few inches of concrete between us and dirt - foundations weren't quite the same in the 1800s, I guess. Suffice it to say, the basement is going to need a bit more work than we anticipated. We'll give it a few weeks and then check back in . . .