I would like to have a family room started at some point this year and with that in mind I had decided to make an area of the unfinished part of the basement that did not really have a purpose (mainly collecting junk)into a place where the kids could play and store the toys in between playtime. The only challenge was not to spend alot of money and use what we already have in the way of furniture, paint, etc. My great neighbors (Thanks Marilyn!) gave us an old preschool cubby piece that we are using on one side of the space and my brother donated a nice cubby holder with tons of storage and it is on casters so it move easily. Thanks Jake! I had bought the double desk at a flea market and I bought a train table from my aunt who had gotten a new coffee table for her basement and was looking to get rid of it. I also purchased a new rug for the floor that is comfy for the kids to play on, not to mention walk on. I sprung for some containers to hold toys in both pieces of furniture, made tags to label what goes in them and added a few accessories for fun and of course we had the Christmas gift of painting the wood paneling with some of our leftover paint from Jake and Ruth. It would have never been completed without that large detail! I think it turned out better than I had anticipated-what do you think? Now if I could just get around to working on an idea for our family room to be.....I will share a picture of the world's most beautiful bathroom if I could only find where I filed it!
A snapshot of the before painting. This is all the wonderful wood paneling lining the walls throughout the unfinished part of our basement. Not completely but a good portion.
Here is the fresh coat of blue paint we used to cover it up-and one wall is cinder block and looks much cleaner and better with the paint to cover it!
