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FleshEater

FleshEater

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We have 2 living rooms. One upstairs and one in the basement. The basement living room is basically a catch-all for junk. No one uses it as a living room and it’s a giant waste of space.

However, this is right as you walk into the house from the driveway. The only time it’s used as an entry, though, is in winter or if it’s pouring down rain.

I’ve hated this layout ever since we bought the place. I just don’t know what else to d with it besides gut the entire basement and re-design in a more efficient way, which isn’t happening. :flipoff2:

We’ve semi-decorated it with my taxidermy and travel maps/brochures, etc. But it always ends up a apace for the kid’s car projects to dry as seen in the pic below. :laughing:

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I want to turn it into a connected shed/shop, but I know that’s a terrible idea for re-sale. Wife never goes down stairs so she doesn’t care.

Any ideas? Anyone have a space like this that they’ve turned into a utility type room while maintaining pleasing aesthetic looks?
 
FleshEater said:
We have 2 living rooms. One upstairs and one in the basement. The basement living room is basically a catch-all for junk. No one uses it as a living room and it’s a giant waste of space.

However, this is right as you walk into the house from the driveway. The only time it’s used as an entry, though, is in winter or if it’s pouring down rain.

I’ve hated this layout ever since we bought the place. I just don’t know what else to d with it besides gut the entire basement and re-design in a more efficient way, which isn’t happening. :flipoff2:

We’ve semi-decorated it with my taxidermy and travel maps/brochures, etc. But it always ends up a apace for the kid’s car projects to dry as seen in the pic below. :laughing:

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IMG_3439.jpeg
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I want to turn it into a connected shed/shop, but I know that’s a terrible idea for re-sale. Wife never goes down stairs so she doesn’t care.

Any ideas? Anyone have a space like this that they’ve turned into a utility type room while maintaining pleasing aesthetic looks?
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I see someone else has a love of maps. :flipoff2:
 
Don’t fight nature.

Life has shown you what the space needs to be.

“But it always ends up an apace for the kid’s car projects to dry as seen in the pic below.”

Pull out the carpet, paint the floor, Put in work benches, tool boxes, storage and good light.
 
grumpy356 said:
Don’t fight nature.

Life has shown you what the space needs to be.

“But it always ends up an apace for the kid’s car projects to dry as seen in the pic below.”

Pull out the carpet, paint the floor, Put in work benches, tool boxes, storage and good light.
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Yep, sounds like a perfect craft room for the kids and your indoor projects
 
Nobody mentioned a stripper pole..? Think of it as a private money making venue-
Edit~ Chevy man beat me to it- :laughing:
 
grumpy356 said:
Don’t fight nature.

Life has shown you what the space needs to be.

“But it always ends up an apace for the kid’s car projects to dry as seen in the pic below.”

Pull out the carpet, paint the floor, Put in work benches, tool boxes, storage and good light.
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See what I’m kind of considering is a fancy workshop, for clean jobs since it’s in my house. Ceramic type of floor, decent looking wood storage cabinets, maybe a nice bench that can double as a bar?
 
The wife has been wanting a she shed for a year. But I started the buggy build so that got put off. Trying to convince her of a cellar dweller woman cave. :laughing:

I’d be more than happy to make this her she-cave. :lmao:
 
We also have 2 living rooms, we turned the unused living room into a theater room complete with fridge, popcorn machine and snack rack. Do we use it more now? NOPE.:laughing: It seemed like a good idea at the time and for the couple of months of winter that we actually did use it and then the novelty wore off and we go in and dust it once in a while.:laughing:
 
So I recently gutted this. It’s going to the wife. So it’ll house her office and be a she cave.

I’m indifferent, honestly. But this is the start of the remodel. Hearth is done. Ceiling and walls will be the same color with black baseboard, black crown, all new window and door casing, and all black doors. Also need to build a barn door for the hallway. Stone needs laid at the entry door, and it’s getting carpet again. Should look good when it’s done.

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Convert into an apartment so one of the kids can deadbeat and move back home with mommy and daddy?:homer:

Agree. An attached shop is definitely a bad idea.

Sex dungeon is the only profitable idea I can come up with too...

If it was mine it would become a distillery room.

I did convert a bedroom into a craft room for the wife. So it would actually become that and open the bedroom back up to company.
 
Our house had a living room on thhe main floor right where you walk in and another one upstairs along with two bedrooms upstairs

We just used the upstairs living room as a pit bedroom since it was way larger than the actual bedrooms .
 
I have that too, but my "extra" is in the basement and larger than the main. It had a bar in it when we bought, we put a pool table in it for a while, now it has a giant couch, elliptical, bike trainer, paddleboards, etc. It's a bit cluttered but like someone already noted, life is showing you what it's for, just go with the flow.

Laminate flooring (preferably waterproof IMO) is easy, not too expensive, decently durable, looks nice enough, if you lean heavily on the hobbies side of things, some good lighting and a big toolbox with a butcher block top, couple chairs or a couch, decent size flat screen, and you've got a very cool and functional man cave.
 
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