Flood and remodel

So after moving into our rental in October of last year, our home flooded 4 times in less than one year. The first flood was over Christmas Eve. After the fourth flood, on father's day, we were tired or moving our furniture and belongings around every month to accommodate the areas that were flooded in the basement. So, Blaine and our amazing neighbors decided to find out what the cause of the flooding was. They dug up the french drain (translation-the tube that is suppose to drain the water from the back of the lot to the street) and found that it did not lead to to street. It led to the window wells between our homes. They dug a trench and rerouted the drain and we have not had a flood since (knock on wood here). It has been 8 months so I am hoping that the problem is solved, but we will see. During this last flood, I was convinced that there has to be mold growing because of all of the flooding. So I made Blaine throw out the carpet and pull the baseboards off the rooms that flooded the worst. AND...yep, I was right. So here comes the remodel. The good news, we are planning on buying the house so all of our supplies and labor are going towards the down payment (nice). This is the older boys/guest room.
I mixed up the pictures when I was loading them but there is the baseboards removed on the bottom and then the sheet rock cut out on the top.

This is the room with new sheet rock and paint. K wanted to help, so she drew pictures all over the walls. I thought they turned out pretty well so I took some pictures for her before we painted over them.

Here is the room with paint finished. SO much better. I love the paint that I picked. It adds so much warmth and color to the room.

Here is the room with beds and curtains. I got some vinyl for the walls of baseball guys but since the walls have the orange peel texture, they did not stick very well. I am still looking for something that is sports themed that I like to put on the walls, but at least it looks like a boy room for now.

This is the office/craft room. This room had the most damage and took the longest to finish. We had to cut out the sheet rock from every wall in this room. The drain was right outside of this window well and I think that this contributed to the mess in this room.

Still a mess!

Here is the sheet rock finished and waiting on paint. Still a mess!

Here is the finished room. The flooring is tile that looks like wood. I love it. The best part, if it floods in there again, I do not have to tear anything up!

My craft closet, LOVE it. Thank you Ann and Steve. I definitely love the shelves.

Here is the great room. We had to use this to store all of our stuff that went in the other two rooms for months. So we pretty much were not able to use most of the basement for most of the summer.

Another view of the great room/storage room. We have so much crap!

Here is the remodel. Definition: the man cave. Blaine loves this room. His brother Steve gave him the projector and screen and he is positive that he can never have a smaller TV now.

Here is another view of the man cave. So much better without all of the other stuff in it.

We love the way the basement turned out. I just wish that we did not have to have a major amount of damage to get it to this point.