20 Pallets

We're SLOOOOOOOWLY working on decorating our basement.  It's always been a place we hang with the dogs and binge Netflix and all that good stuff, but until recently it's been relatively untouched and one can stand only so much tan.  Tan walls.  Tan floors.  Tan, tan as far as the eye can see.

The first wall we claimed from the tan is the wall our TV is on.

We love hanging in the basement, but we never bothered to even hide the TV cords. For three years, people! That's how very oppressed we were by the blandness of this basement. What's that you spy in the left of the picture above? Why, it's wooden pallets! We scrounged around Portland one weekend for free pallets and amassed around 20 or so.

The first thing we did was tackle cord management. Look how excited I am to cut into that wall!

THAT'S HOW SICK I AM OF LOOKING AT TV CORDS AND TAN WALLS. Eddy's excited too, but maybe sliiiightly less excited.

He did get excited about using a reciprocating saw to disassemble all those pallets, though.

He was especially excited to break down all the pallets into an "E". That's my Eddy.

Once we (ahem, Eddy) broke all the pallets down, we were left with just this little pile of wood!

We painted our wall black so all those delicious cracks and knot holes would really stand out.

Then we started applying the wood.

We got about halfway finished and then we had to give up and reinstall our TV for awhile because we had tons going on this winter.

But we got back at it after a few weeks.

We're still wearing the same clothes even though weeks have passed like they do on fancy reality TV. We're professionals like that. Here's the finished wall!

I know, I know. It's a bit tan. However, there's tons of texture and once the rest of the walls are no longer tan, it's really going to look great.