Basement and Living Room mantle

Jim has been very busy during his week off from work this week! We tiled a section of floor in the living room and moved the mantle (without the bulky base) onto it. We mounted our tv above it today. It looks great! Now all we are missing is the gas logs...hopefully the gas company will be out early next week to get everything hooked up for us so we can be toasty by the fire.

Before

Mantle-before

The Tile Master

Tile (pre-grout, which I did myself)

Finished product (almost)

In addition to the living room mantle, he also completed all of the plumbing work, finished boxing in all of the ducts and pipes on the ceilings and walls, and built the fireplace for the gas logs. It's definitely coming along!

Framing around pipes in exercise room
Plumbing in bathroom
Cut-off valves in utility closet
Plumbing to kitchen
Fireplace--we will have gas logs with rock on the remainder of this section of wall