We’ve spent most of the summer renovating the lower level of our cabin from empty tiled space to additional bed and bath. Here are before and after pics, first from the listing photos as we inherited the space (note the awful suspended ceiling with missing tiles, the ancient black wood stove, and the dirty white tile), second as it now looks after setting up the bed area last night:
We’re especially happy with how the bath turned out as we found an unfinished kitchen cabinet at Home Depot that exactly (!) fit into the alcove between the shower and the wall, so we ended up with a closet/cabinet instead of just open shelving as we’d originally planned:
This project has taken up our entire summer as we grossly underestimated the effort involved (mostly on our plumber’s part). DH and I did the rest. We’re both getting too old for this, but we love the result, and now we have a private apartment for guests separate from the activity upstairs.