Some of the trim around the doorways.....

Here's the bookshelf in place and trimmed out nicely. It actually came out better than we expected.

I also built in an access panel so i can get to the water main whenever needed.

It's a little hard to see in this picture, but we used a nice piece of pine to cap the railway next to the stairs. Just sanded the corners a bit, primed, and painted.

Here's the old lally column after it's facelift. For this i used a great product called "Pole Wrap". It's exactly as it sounds. Basically thin strips of wood that just wrap around the pole. You can cut it off where you need to and then just apply a bead of liquid nails all the way around. Once it's dry, just paint and pop on the top and bottom caps. I highly recommend this product!

Here is the closet we framed out under the stairs. To make the door i just cut a piece of 3/4 inch plywood to size and fixed beadboard to the front with liquid nails and tiny brad nails. Then it was just attach the hinges and the sliding lock and then trim it out like a door.

There's not much room in there - but in our house we can use every inch of storage we can find!

I also just painted the paneling already in place in the stairwell and added some trim.

We had the carpet installed right after that!

Here's a view down the stairs with the new carpet in place

Here is the new room just about finished. The carpet really makes it a great place to hang out and for the kids to play.

We have light!

When it was all said and done i felt like a proud father! i didn't even want anyone to use it!