As I have stated here, when hubby and I moved into our current home, we downsized quite a bit. Our children were grown and we only had one left at home. And she was on her way out anyway as she was headed off to college.
It was time to for us to think about our future without children living with us. So we went with a smaller house where the main living is on one floor. However, this house has the potential of actually being bigger than our previous home because it has an unfinished basement. SCORE!
Since we have moved in, we have created a bathroom and a bedroom in the space. Click on the links to see those posts.
We still have quite a bit more to do, but as you know, home improving takes time and money. And hubby and I love doing it ourselves, so the basement was a WIN/WIN for us.
One of the areas that we sacrificed when we moved was a laundry room. Our new home has a laundry "closet". Boy, has THAT been a challenge! This room is so small that we have to angle our dryer in this closet because we cannot get the dryer door open otherwise.
We had installed some stock cabinets that we had purchased from Lowe's over the washer and dryer. That helped somewhat with organizing our laundry supplies. As you can see from this picture, the dryer is slightly skewed in order to have access to the inside. Oy' vey!
The dryer also acts as a "storage of junk" space. Do you have that space in your home too?
It's those things that just seem to not have "a home at the moment" and it totally frustrates me! (Breathe, Tracy, Breathe...)
So hubby came up with a good idea. Why not move this laundry room to the basement in the area between the bathroom and the bedroom? We can make it a beautiful space with lots of room! And this existing laundry closet will become a large pantry right outside of our kitchen.
I JUMPED on the idea! As an avid blog reader, I had just seen THIS blog post from Thistlewood Farms. (I LOVE her blog! You need to check her out.) Oh the glorious beauty of that floor... And that ROOM! The wheels were spinning in my head.
This is Karianne's room from her blog.
The floor is simple! AND cheap!!! AND perfect for a basement floor that still seems to find ways to spew water (we think we have solved all issues at this point.)
Here is the room before. The floor was initially painted, but we have had 4 different issues with water in this space and that's why it is peeling. The door here goes into our guest bedroom that we built ourselves.
Same wall, just moved down a tad with my camera.
Here is the back wall. The wall on the left of this picture is the bedroom wall and the wall on the right side is the bathroom wall. The stairs are to the right of the photographer (me!). The oven that you see there will be placed into my kitchen upstairs as soon as we get the parts to fix it.
Can't you just picture a washer and dryer there in front and to the left a folding counter with lots of cabinets? I can!
What a mess. I will be so glad to give this space an identity!
So keep coming back for our transformation. Our floor is already in and hubby is working on the walls to lay the sheet rock. I'll post an update soon!
Thanks for visiting!
xoxo,
Tracy
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