Basement

I'm very happy to have a basement where I can put things that the rest of the house doesn't have space for, but it really isn't very exciting. Ladies and gentlemen, it looks like a basement.

Here are two views of the main semi-finished area, which will probably be a nice family room somewhere down the line. Right now, it's just a place to store stuff.





The other half is your typical basement laundry and utility room, where the furnace and hot water heater are. We did, however, find this old map of Minnesota inside one of the cabinet doors. It is old enough that it doesn't show Craig's hometown suburb of Woodbury. Instead, it shows Oakbury, which we think must be a combination of the current towns of Oakdale and Woodbury.



The other room in the basement is our robin's egg blue 3/4 bath. It's technically 3/4 because it has just a shower, not a tub. In our case, though, it could also be 3/4 because it only has three solid walls. The space where the fourth should be is open to the underside of the basement stairs.