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Fabulous Basement Remodel Tour

Written by Cassity

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Basement Remodel Tour By Amanda!

Hey y’all!  I’m Amanda from Dixie Delights and I’m just *delighted* to do my very first guest post over here at Remodelaholic!  Honey (as my mister is affectionately called) and I just wrapped up an extensive renovation on our basement. 

Here’s the story that’s a year in the making…

 
Two years ago when we purchased our forty year old home that boasted a “finished basement” clearly they were using the term “finished” lightly.  The space was loaded with navy blue carpeting, dark painted paneling, water stained ceilings, various mirrored walls and various other unmentionables.  I refused to step foot in it, much less take a picture of it.  Hence, I have only a couple of pictures to document the before.  

 
 
This in progress picture already has the new walls, floors, ceilings, light and drapes.  But, as you can see, it was just one big empty room.
We had originally planned to have a professional re-do the space once both littles made it to school.  A mold problem in the basement moved that timeline up by a few years, yet we didn’t have the cash to bring in a contractor.  When Honey, who boasts no construction experience or training, proclaimed that he could “just finish the basement” I had my doubts.  But time and again he made my jaw drop time and again with his impressively industrious ability to take something I lickety-split sketched on paper (with a crayon no doubt) and bring it to life. 
 
Having two littles that will one day be teenage boys and a husband that desperately wants a man space, we had the following goals for the basement:
– Make the space look nice, but remain kid, husband and budget friendly.  So, when the floors get dented or the walls get scratched I am neither fainting nor screaming.
– A cozy tv area that will comfortably seat four and still allow room for the boys to play the wii.
– A bar area with a sink and dishwasher.  We didn’t have the dishwasher in our old basement and I hated carting everything up and down the stairs to wash after a party.
– A buffet area for entertaining.
– Plenty of storage for toys and games.
– Space for the pool table begrudgingly brought from our old house.
– Area for dining, crafting, school work, game playing, etc.
– Banquette for seating (and just because I really, really, really want a banquette and have nowhere else to put one.)
 
And we crossed every. single. one. off the list!  Here’s the after:
 
The stairway gallery
TV Room
The Bar
Buffet and Dining/Crafting/Gaming Area
Pool Table / Toy Storage
Banquette
 
Bathroom
 
 
 
 
 
Should you want to peruse the unabridged edition of ALL the titillating details for this entire basement project, look here for the vision,  for an eight month update, for the bar reveal,  for the finally finished banquette, for the buffet, for the stairway, the bath and here for the den.
 
I think we’ll take the rest of the year off 🙂
xoxo
This project was contributed by one of our fabulous readers! We love to share your projects with this great blogging community. So, if you have projects from kitchen renovation ideas to small bathroom remodels, overhauled and repurposed furniture, spray paint updates you name it please send it in! Thanks for reading Remodelaholic!

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Published: August 8, 2011Filed Under: Guest Bloggers Tagged: banquette, basements, Built-ins, family room, grey, Yellow

About Cassity

Cassity started Remodelaholic with her husband, Justin, to share their love for knocking out walls together. She is an interior designer, wife, and mother of two. She and Justin have remodeled three homes from top to bottom and are working on their fourth. Making a house a home is her favorite hobby.


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  1. Alice says

    December 29, 2011 at 5:13 pm

    What did you use for your ceiling? I can’t quite tell from the pictures.

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  2. Kathleen says

    August 27, 2013 at 12:00 pm

    Very Nice! Awesome job!

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  3. Melissa G says

    August 27, 2013 at 12:20 pm

    Looks amazing. I especially love the TV space!!! How many finished square feet is it?

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  4. Amanda says

    January 29, 2014 at 9:05 am

    Love the 2, 4×2 cabinets you have with baskets…where’d you get them? They’d be ideal for our basement.

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    • Cassity says

      January 29, 2014 at 11:36 am

      Amanda, this is a guest post so I can’t be sure where exactly she got hers, but they have them at Ikea! and they have the baskets that fit in them on sale there too!

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  5. Petrah says

    October 10, 2014 at 6:39 pm

    Sometimes a room just speaks to you, so much so that you want to replicate it at all costs. My goodness! This basement redo is now etched on my heart. Going to have to print those pictures and tack them to my corkboard for inspiration!

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