tackle the basement before spring
Saturday, December 26, 2009 at 10:44AM The summer of our kitchen redo was also the summer of terrible flooding in Iowa. In a show of solidarity, our basement went ahead and flooded with the rest of the city.
It was so bad because I'd moved all the good stuff from the kitchen/dining room down to the bar area, so we lost a ton of stuff. We basically had to gut the whole thing (it was so close to being a paneling showroom down there) and now it's just a storage space for leftover building materials, the fridge no one wanted, some chairs I need to recover, and our stark, bare-bulb laundry area. It needs serious help.
I've been saving a great idea that ran in Country Home awhile back. My friend, Meredith, designed a laundry room warm up in her own not-so-cozy basement. She created a large country table for folding, painted the floors with that cool paint chip kit, painted the walls, put up some nice shelving and added a "curtain" to warm things up. It now looks fab.
I'm also super sweet on Young House Love's amazing basement transformation. I can tell you all about it, but I'd just be repeating everything Sherry already told us about it, so let's just hop over there and see what she and John did.
Because I have several rooms in my basement (it sounds so much bigger than it is, I swear), I think I'm going to use both Sherry and Meredith's ideas. As for the bar area, after these projects, I think I'll just fill it with booze.




































