Basement Makeover

This is what took up most my time in November and thanks to Mike (hubby) it went smoothly, plus he added some great ideas for his man cave.





You can see the great man cave here and he really had the place to himself, the girls and I didn't like going down into the dark paneled room.

So I give you the befores - the south end, the TV viewing area:






Heading down the stairs, just off the kitchen







Looking up the stairs, the carpet looks very bad, it has been down way too long







A full view of the TV - sectional area:






The landing of the stairs - the door leads to the laundry - sewing room

See where we had to patch the carpet?

The desk - bar area

The bar with just an old light fixture

Now the after - a few gallons of primer and paint and the place looks so much better





The desk area

The sectional area, I have purchased 5 poster size frames from Joann's and plan on taking pictures from our farm to put in the frames. I have one leaning on the sofa to think about this. I am thinking black and white prints, what do you think?

The stairs going up. Mike purchased oak treads from Home Depot and stained them, they look so wonderful

Looking down, we replaced the landing carpet with a floating tile floor from Home Depot. I would really like to do the entire basement. Mike wanted to put a bit of the floor down and see how it holds up. Another good idea.

The walls look white heading down the stairs but it is a tannish-cream, if that makes sense. All the paint came from our local True Value, except the primer, we used Gripper from Home Depot.

Here is a better shot of the landing and one of the treads. I stained the unfinished side of the basement floor, you can see that at the top of the picture.

The bar after - we changed out the light. The wiring was not center above the bar, so the fixture is a more to the left but I can live with that, it is so much better than the old one.


Now only one problem, the man cave doesn't look so cave-ish any more and we tend to watch TV down there more.

So if the girls and I are going to be down there, we need a tree. I found this one at Hobby Lobby, we added some floral picks and balls.

Here is a picture with the flash so you can see the ornaments

No Flash:

Close-up

A few gallons of paint, a bit of flooring and the oak treds made an incredible difference in this room. Now my question, "Why didn't we do this sooner?"



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