Basement Guestroom
Zohra's visit for 2 weeks on the 30th has prompted a massive clean up of the basement. She's coming for a job and we are actually charging her money so I feel like we have to 'do it up' nicer. It is a testament to the amount of stuff we have that we can furnish another little studio downstairs. It's bare but the essentials are there.
The layout is nicer in the sense that the kitchen and bathroom are consolidated in the front area making it a cosier (aka small) studio apartment. The bedroom in the back we have converted into a tool room/storage and the even smaller room way in the back where the furnace is, we have made into a laundry room.
So we cleaned downstairs and put in the single air mattress and some cobbled together furniture and I think it looks all right!
This led us to another project we have been planning to do for a while - flipping the laundry room door so that it opens the other way. It used to irritate me that the door opened into the left wall and the light switch was on the other side. We have had difficulties actually, somehow the door isn't swinging right after we flipped it. A little research on the internet and we are heading back down there today to try and figure out what we did wrong. Our first DIY project and it seemed like it would be easy but apparently it isn't!
Mike and I have a week off before we go back to work so our plan is to do all the little projects we need to do - this includes fixing the pantry wall where the washer/dryer was. We went to Lowe's yesterday and bought some sheetrock and some tools (his dad gave us a $100 gift card from Lowe's) so I think we have everything we need. This door has hung us up a little (pun intended) but hopefully we will succeed.
4 comments:
that whole thing with the pantry and bar seats is the basement? that looks like quite a big space!
Zohra also said it was big - i can't really tell now that we have seen it for so long. She only sleeps and showers down there and comes up to our place for dinner. It works out perfectly. I imagine if we had a long term guest, it wouldn't be as tight knit but since Zohra is so close to us I like that she does that.There's also tea/coffee making facilities - like a suite style hotel
And a hairdryer
and free mineral water on the bedside table
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