Brrrrrr

I am beginning to think that a winter remodel wasn’t such a good idea. With temperatures barely topping off in the low one digits, traipsing outside to work hardly sounds appealing. Most recently, we’ve decided that while the frigid temps persist, we are going to focus our energies on finishing our laundry room. That way, when it comes time to move out of the existing kitchen, there will be a clean, nice, non-dungeony space to move into.

Finishing our laundry room will be relatively inexpensive, yet it will add 160 finished square feet to the size of our home. It will require framing up some walls, adding sheet rock, a dropped ceiling, paint, lighting, and some cheapo stick-down floor tiles. We also want to add some cabinets, a deep sink, and a nice long countertop to span the length of our washer and dryer (my future food prep station). Almost all of the materials we will be able to get at the salvage yard. In the future I would like to add a craft station—some base storage cabinets with a tabletop laminate countertop. I’ve seen this sort of setup while touring the Parade of Homes, and thought the concept was really smart. This way, we’ll have a suitable work space for messy kid’s projects, folding laundry, wrapping gifts, ect.

Our current basement: