SURPRISE! Yes, here are the finished product of the Summer of the Basement. This is the view after just coming down the stairs. Begin to notice: charcoal gray ceiling, clean white walls, colorful rugs covering the floor, and beautiful recessed can lighting all around.
With the washer and dryer moved further back into the room, we put the chest freezer in their place.
Taking a step further into the room... the laundry area, including the hot water heater, is now all behind some charcoal gray curtains. Now guests to our basement don't have to pass through piles of dirty laundry to get into the room.
The main area has turned into a play room for Will. You will notice Beth's amazing finds of chairs, all different colors and very complementary of the rug. The shelves you see in the background have been ours since we first moved to Columbus. We built them out of not-going-anywhere MDF, and been used in many different ways and places. Now they have been reborn yet again as gray toy shelves.
We were also given a small TV and a DVD player. Add the N64 to that, and baby, you've got an entertainment center on!
Anyone notice that amazing door into the crawl space? We just sit and stare at it now, it's so beautiful.
Nick's drums have returned to the basement, much to Will's delight.
The curtains behind the drums enclose a storage area, much reduced in size (yay!) and organized on shelves given to us by Beth's parents. Also out of the way: most of the furnace and the ugly sump pump pipes.
Now, looking into the secluded laundry area...
The washer, dryer, utility sinks, and shelves are out of the way.
Looking back out into the basement from the laundry area.
And finally, the fruit cellar. At last, it feels like a nice, clean place to store foodstuffs. We picked up some cheap metal shelving from Costco, so now our canning efforts have a good home.So, thanks for joining us on our journey. It feels like we've added a whole new room to our house. We're especially thankful that Will loves to play down there, and that many of his toys are no longer strewn about the first floor.
Most of all, though, we want to say a HUGE thank you to all of our friends and family who donated their time, talent, and resources to make this happen! We certainly couldn't have done it alone.
4 comments:
This is amazing! What a giant accomplishment! You and your friends who helped have all certainly earned the right to sit staring at the door (and the rest of it).
FANTASTIC!! Guys! That looks awesome! I'm so happy for you. Great job!
Superb job! The space looks so comfortable.
haha, I have no idea who you are. was on a friends blog and clicked "next blog" and I guess yours was random. But I was considering painting my basement ceiling instead of using a drop ceiling, but not sure how it would look and viola I see yours.
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