Basement!

We began working on turning part of our basement into a habitable space back in early 2009. It took a long time, but now the walls are built, the ceiling is in, painting is done, the carpet is here! The basement finally looks like a real room! A real room with some questionable furniture, but a real room nonetheless!

Here is a before picture (from before we moved in) (you can read the post and see the pics from way back when we started here).

And here's how it looks today:

We plan to replace the ugly folding table with a desk and put a bookcase behind it to hold the various toys that are bound to migrate in here. The projector and screen need to be hung and the speakers need to have something complicated done to them. Clearly I need a real chair, and the walls need some artwork. But that stuff could take another two years, so for now we're basking in the joy of having a space that doesn't feel like a haven for hundreds of centipedes who are waiting to pounce. I'm so happy that we're finally here! Phew!