Basement Pictures - Laundry and Storage Room

Laundry and Storage Room
As I've mentioned, the basement is now in an entirely new setup than before.  Before, the main area was basically like a huge open laundry room.  Cause that's useful.  We don't have any pictures of this area pre-work.  It was a boring area that neither required nor invited any pictures ever.

We do have a picture of the now-storage-room space.  We called it Cleo's room.  For a while, in 2010, it had our desk and computer in it:

The red bassinet was Cleo's bed.  So adorable.

However, this space is now AWESOME and totally useful as a combination laundry/storage area.  The bulk of the downstairs was given to the family area, with only a small portion devoted to laundry and storage.  That's how it always should have been anyway.  Here's the space in different stages of demolition and building:

And here it is now, with all the storage room totally organized!:

The storage area is the only part of the basement that didn't get new flooring.  We pulled up the (mostly broken) tile and cleaned it really well and left it as bare concrete.  Because, who cares, it's a storage room.

As you can tell from the last picture, you can stand in the laundry room and look into the family area.  So I can stand there and fold clothes while watching TV.  Not that I often do that, but I CAN if I want to.  And that feels awesome.