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Welcome to my basement.

Right now as I'm filming this, it's about 10 degrees out, 12 degrees, something like that.

So there's no way in hell I'm not even walking outside to the garage or the pole

barn to sit out there and do a five-minute show.

Because it takes more than five minutes.

I screw up a few times, so the whole thing probably takes 20 minutes altogether.

Well, 20 minutes and that kind of weather is not a good idea.

Although it's really not that bad.

But anyways, you can see the basement is pretty much a mess here.

The plan is to,

what I'm probably gonna do is I gotta redo this whole fireplace,

or excuse me,

wood stove area.

and paint the place, change the floors.

I'll give you a little shot here.

You can see it's a laminate floor, this wood stuff.

I would actually do the other side with this if I could find it.

Unfortunately,

the person who put this down who owned the house probably got it off the back of a truck.

I don't know, maybe the back of a truck.

But anyways, it just continued, and I couldn't find it anywhere.

As you can see, there's a million nail holes.

It's amazing.

So I got some work to do.

I'm not really sure what color I'm going to paint all this stuff.

There's my other garage door.

There's the stairwell that comes down, and there's one of the cats, some wood.

But I think what I'm going to do is I'm going to strip all this off the floor,

and I'm going to put tile down.

The concrete's very dry.

I did some tests on that.

So I think the plan will be to take that wood stove.

I'm going to move that down to the pole barn.

Put in a smaller one like I have up in the first floor.

And there's the other guy.

And then redo all that, the wall back there and all that stuff.

You can put fire-resistant or heat-resistant tiles up on the back so that you can

keep a wood stove there.

So that's the plan for that.

There's more junk.

Basements always become a junk collector.

So there's some stuff hanging here.

Here's some more junk.

As you can see, the cats have their favorite toy.

Well, second favorite toy.

I'm their favorite toy.

So there they are up on their little post.

I was going to put this up in my bedroom or something,

give them something to play on,

but I don't know.

The thing weighs a ton.

Anyway, so as you can see, it's the same story here.

It's got some ugly paint, a million nail holes, so all these got to be pulled out.

Look at these here.

They get pulled out.

But then when you start messing around here, you get looking close at it.

Inevitably, you find all kinds of bad patches and stuff.

In the main floor upstairs,

When I was redoing it, I found some areas where there was a hole or a dent.

I started messing around with it.

I realized there's cardboard behind it.

These all seem pretty good.

This used to be some sort of entertainment room.

Here you can see there's a bar.

And I wasn't sure if I'm going to keep it.

I'm going to pull it out.

I'm going to maybe give it to some locals and just give it to somebody, you know, haul it away.

The thing is, it really hurts me to tear it up because it's well-made.

This is all solid wood.

This is a pine, knotty pine.

You know, someone put a lot of love and attention into it, but it's not my style.

I'm not an entertainment sort of guy.

And having a 70s-style bar,

I mean,

I'd have to put a disco light up,

and I'm not going to do that.

So I think I'm going to take this out.

The problem is I don't know what I'm going to do with the room.

Other than, I mean, the carpet's disgusting, as you can see.

And there's a lot of room here.

This is a big room.

This room is probably, I don't know if you can see it with the camera or not.

But this room,

I mean,

you can put a pool table in here,

easy,

some couches,

whatever you want to do.

Well, I'm not sure.

I've got to think it through.

That's been the real holdup, because I don't know what I'm going to do with it.

But I have kind of settled on doing the tile.

I'll tile all this.

And for both sides, here's the stairwell.

And as you can see,

I think you can see,

well,

we'll see if you can see,

these steps are pretty old.

And I kind of like them old.

You know, there's a lot of history there.

So I'm not sure what I'm going to do with that.

I think I'll just, odds are I'll just paint them all white.

Because,

you know,

if I go with agreeable gray through the walls and then paint the framing white,

I don't know.

What about painting it red?

I can call my basement hell.

Or blue or green.

Blue might be good.

I don't know.

I've got gray everywhere else, but we'll see.

And I've got to do some lights.

I've got these sort of pot lights, and then there's a fluorescent light, which I hate.

There's more lights over here.

So I've got a lot of stuff to do.

But I should have started this over the winter, but I don't know.

I just didn't have a lot of motivation, a lot of energy.

I'm not sure what's going on with me.

I guess I did so much the year before, I just ran out of steam.

Anyway, people wanted to see...

The basement.

See the cats.

So, say goodbye to everybody.

Talk to you next time.