{"id":584,"date":"2008-09-14T16:12:54","date_gmt":"2008-09-14T16:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.95.25.178\/maggie\/2008\/09\/14\/tada\/"},"modified":"2008-09-14T16:12:54","modified_gmt":"2008-09-14T16:12:54","slug":"tada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2008\/09\/14\/tada\/","title":{"rendered":"tada!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in June we made the momentous decision to have our basement finished. A few years ago, the world&#8217;s greatest mother-in-law <a href=\"http:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2002\/10\/the_fruits_of_labour.html\">helped me turn the basement from this<\/a>:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"before before\" src=\"http:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/images\/before1.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"187\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nto this:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"after before\" src=\"http:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/images\/after4.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"187\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n&#8230;which was fine, for a while. But Robert has asthma, so a dusty, damp basement is not ideal. Also, we are four in the house, with one bathroom, so a second bathroom is a nice addition &#8211; not to mention that the first bathroom desperately needs work, but with four of us in the house, having <em>no <\/em>bathroom is a truly bad idea.<br \/>\nSo we sat down with our contractor, who has already done our kitchen and backyard projects, and came up with a new basement: second bathroom, including a fancy shower; a bright, clean laundry room; lots of storage space, built around the furnace and water heater, thus hiding those industrial thingies aways; a new front door, with a closet; heating and lighting; and loads of other little luxurious details.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"after after\" src=\"http:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/images\/sept2008%20016.JPG\" width=\"225\" height=\"180\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gmaggie\/sets\/72157607290586125\/\">Check out the end result on my flickr page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in June we made the momentous decision to have our basement finished. A few years ago, the world&#8217;s greatest mother-in-law helped me turn the basement from this: to this: &#8230;which was fine, for a while. But Robert has asthma, so a dusty, damp basement is not ideal. Also, we are four in the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2008\/09\/14\/tada\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;tada!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}