Prepping for Our Biggest Condo Project Yet!

THE BASEMENT.
The ever looming, elephant in the room, always on the brain, seemingly HUGE project that we've wanted to tackle ever since we bought the house!
Previously used for storage, spare TV area, Matt's home office. AKA the cold messy room - LOL

bottom of the stairs

as you round the corner

all the way to the left - under the stairs

straight ahead - aka TV area.
Matt's desk is the right - just outside the picture

It's now all in the garage. 

well, the heavier pieces were moved into the utility room

empty basement

This is where Matt's desk was - door goes to utility room

Looking back towards the stairs

THE PLAN.

Dad helped us with measurements and basic drawings.
There is no basement under the garage - it's on a slab, hence the 'L' shape.

But here's what you really want to know! The basement will be finished as one large space with a few additional closets put in for storage (reminder: we have no attic storage!). The ceiling will have a few bumps due to lovely utilities that could have been planned better, but weren't. ah, well. The 3 highlighted spaces are what we have to work with once the closets go in. We tried to place the closets in the funky corners to even out the space a bit and make it more usable. Blue is the family/TV and couch area. Yellow is Matt's home office space and Green is the workout corner where Matt's weight bench, my yoga mat, etc will go. 

This is basically the same general layout we had down there before, but there will be some finagling once everything is finished. I want to make sure it flows and is comfy to have people spend time down there - the goal being that the big screen tv, surround sound, xbox, will all go down there and be set up for awesome game watching and/or movie nights! :-) Too bad we didn't have it done for the World Series!! :-) There's always next year!

Reese after supervising the movement of all the stuff in the basement. Poor little guy was pooped! :-)

We hope to have the whole thing done by December 21st - I will keep you updated as we go along. Should be a crazy-fun-learning-awesome experience!