the right stuff

When we started looking for a house there were a few things that were on our “must have” list. One of them was a basement- we somehow have a ton of stuff and we want more stuff in the future so we needed a place for the current stuff and future stuff. We live in a 1 bedroom apartment right now, we have two huge walk in closets, a linen closet in the bathroom, a laundry closet with shelving/storage and a coat closet. Even with all of this storage I still feel like I don’t have enough (space, not stuff). I think once we get a bigger kitchen with more cabinets and I can take the juicer,coffee maker and serving bowls out of my closet I’ll feel better but right now all I can think about is more space/storage for ya know.. stuff. We’ve seen the pictures of the current basement and our plan for the future basement is to have one bedroom, one bathroom, a closet, a laundry room and another living room where RC will be able to watch all of the football pre shows/ football shows/ football games/ football post game recaps/ recaps about post game recaps/ previews of football games / football specials he wants.

I forgot to mention that we don’t have a ½ bath on the first floor. GASP! We tried, we REALLY did. It just didn’t work. You would either open the bathroom door to the kitchen and who wants a toilet near the stove? Or we would put it at the back of the house and lose the only other source of natural light in the house or put it in the front of the house and open the door to the living room and lose all that wall space. It just didn’t work and trust us, nobody was as disappointed as we were. We thought we NEEDED one but we didn’t want to compromise the main floor for a toilet and a sink. We have 3 other bathrooms in the house and I don’t think going up or down a flight of stairs to a bathroom has killed anyone.. yet.. so that bathroom down there will be the "main" bathroom.

That’s the basement, what do you think? Want to move in yet? You can bring all of your stuff!