Basement Make Over.
4 Materials
$2500
3 Months
Medium
Remodeled basement from 70's paneling and suspended ceiling. Used 8 ft. furring 1"x2" stripes on the ceiling, new can lights. There was drywall behind the paneling and patched, sanded and repainted it. New MDF casing around doors, windows and baseboards. Saved carpet in half the room and used vinyl plank on the rest. Replaced slider with a new center swing door. In bedroom, put blocks on the ceiling and installed the backside of car siding, repainted and new MDF trim. Ran gas pipe across ceiling for future efficiency kitchen. Bathroom , backside of car siding on wall, replaced vanity and floor.
before and after
before and after
use 1 inch spacer , size of board.
cut boards to fit around can lights
ceiling nail gunned to floor joice.
main room
bedroom
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Beige. To answer some other questions I didn’t see. Each strip is a $1. We used about 400 for whole basement. Not sure if cheaper then drywall. I guess if you did yourself it would be but I know to hire out would probably be more. 2.5” nails. I didn’t sand them, you could though for a cleaner finish.
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Very practical and looks great !...I would have saved the intial drop down celing panels, cut them up to fit between the joists, to catch dust or hopefully sound proof, would have to find a way to keep them stuffed in place securely with staples or some other way as they are quite light in weight anyways.
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Yes some sound proofing would have been good. One thing I do regret.
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Approximately how many square feet did you do?
What about insulation or something for sound? Looks great
You're inspiring me to follow same route on my low ceiling basement.
What is or was your height from floor to joist base?