We’ve taken a month long break from doing anything in the basement. Anything except watching House of Cards and Walking Dead marathons that is.
I wish I had some long and interesting story to tell you about how we came to choose this rug and these frames, but the truth is that it wasn’t that dramatic of an experience. It just took a while, but here it is.
Outlets are now covered up by frames.
Awful linoleum white floor covered up by giant rug from World Market.
Another trip down memory lane, just for fun. When we moved in:
Once we painted the walls:
Once we re-did the cabinet:
Once we put up curtains and made some minor fixes to the cabinet:
And now:
And the project list is whittled down a little more:
for the cabinet:paint it white.we may also get a board that will cover the entire front of the cabinets (and paint that white as well) and make it look like it’s the actual facade. that way, we can push the couch up against it and it doesn’t look strange but still not lose the storage behind it (we’d likely put seasonal and really rarely used items in there, so moving the couch wouldn’t happen often)remove that old countertop and install butcher block counter (we bought that today!)
decide whether we should paint that door next to the fireplace blue (to match the walls), white (to match the fireplace) or leave it as iscreate a gallery wall of white frames above the cabinet to try to camouflage the fact that the window is off-center and that damn air conditioning unitreplace all the window treatments with something white, flowy, and with some sort of patternget a big area rug that warms up the place and covers up the linoleum flooring- get/build a new coffee table that has storage inside to hide all the blankets (it’s chilly down here)
- get new sconces for over the fireplace
- build bookshelves on the other side of the fireplace (not pictured) and finally get rid of the black bookcases that are at least 15 years old, from ikea, and still standing strong
- hang awesome things up on the walls
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