House Projects :: Basement Demo + Playroom

Right when you come down the stairs in our house you come into a "playroom."  It was probably the 'rec room' in it's day.  It has an awesome old fireplace but is otherwise unremarkable.  It's existence is why they called the basement 'finished' when we bought it.  Questionable at best because the floors are concrete and freezing and there is technically no heat vents into the basement at all.

But that will soon all be changed and this space will be amazing.  We're keeping the fireplace - because I love it - and putting in radiant floor heating so the concrete floors aren't so numbing.   I can't wait to have a place to send the kids to play too - one that gives me five minutes of quiet time.

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INSPIRATION

The new space will be part playroom and part TV room.  We want it to grow with the kids as they grow and easily evolve into a place where they can hang out as teenagers.  We'll see...

via Lonny Magazine

via Architectural Digest

I'll have some shelves built in that can hold toy bins now - and probably video games later.  Do you still call them video games?  Do they have a cooler name?  Something to find out.

I don't think anything that I do will actually look like these images because I really can't find anything that has what I am envisioning.  We are putting in a bar sink + fridge area with toy bins near by.  And - of course - everything will be shades of white with a pop of color.  I'm loving this combo right now:

via Better Homes & Gardens