Five years and counting

When we moved into our home the basement was totally unfinished. I mean cement floors, and no walls. We put up walls for a bathroom, we made two very large bedrooms for the boys, added a linen closet, a storage room and a furnace room. We laid down laminate flooring to cover the cement and painted the walls.

Where we live, a basement is considered unfinished so long as there is no ceiling, so we decided to paint it a dark blue and leave it open. A finished basement means a higher tax base.

Unfortunately, we chose the wrong shade of blue and this is how it looks :

Very unfinished looking. Another problem with the basement is the windows. I made curtains for the boys rooms out of fabric they chose, and that's fine, but it looks so..armature, if you know what I mean.

When we built the basement we were in a hurry, we needed the rooms down there for the boys, the upstairs only has three bedrooms! I told myself that Eventually,I will finish the basement to my liking, add shelves, decorative hardware and maybe some moldings to cover the mess where the wall meets the roof.

Well. it's been five years now and the basement is in the same shape we left it. I have been keeping an eye out on the net, fooling around with design websites and architectural magazines. I've got a few good ideas now that I am ready to go with.

I found a site, Inviting Home.Com, that sells pretty much everything a person needs to spice up their home. I want to add some roll down shades to the boys rooms (and the living room) and then, bracket, on either side of the window, shutters, like this :

Inviting Home has seventy billion colors to chose from, but as my trip is all white, I would pick up the white ones. Right now, the boys rooms are dark green and dark blue, adding more white will be a definite asset to lightening up the rooms!

Now that I have plans somewhat in place, I can now turn my attention to getting Hubs on board with the decorative plans! I sure hope that I can get him in line sooner than what it took me to decide what i wanted done!