The Basement of Your Dreams Awaits

For various reasons I’ve been waging what feels like a war with my basement over the past few months – one that I’m fairly sure at this point that I’m losing.

Where I come from on the West Coast we really don’t have basements unless they happen to be small crawl spaces or garages – everything is more or less built on slab.  So just the notion of descending into an underground cement bunker seems unnatural and a bit spooky to me.

Then, to be frank, I have terrifying, unseen visitors down there that simply refuse to vacate.  And in their refusal they leave behind horrific evidence of their dreadful basement dwelling lives.  I would elaborate but I don’t want to give you nightmares.  (Ask me and I’ll tell you if you’re really curious).

So today, when I was haunting House & Home’s website looking through post after post of gorgeous rooms I came across the site’s new video station.

They have an amazing feature about the magazine’s senior editor Meg Crossley’s basement renovation.  (To my relief in the video Meg does say it was a scary basement before she made it over) – but it certainly is gorgeous now.  You have to drop over to see the description of how they faked a fireplace, beadboard, wood floors, and more you’ll have to take a peek – you’ll be amazed – I guarantee.

So I’m thinking there might be hope for my beleaguered basement after all.

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