The tiny, dark and scary little dungeon that it is will soon be brought to life with a good power washing and scrub down. The basement will act as Utility room, Dry Storage and Primary Laundry room until the kitchen and bathroom are remodeled. Then it will be moved upstairs with the older washer and dryer unit in the basement for the really dirty laundry.
Recently I've been receiving a catalogue called Restoration Hardware. Two things come to mind when I look through it: Beautiful inspiration and Stupidly Expensive.
Whoever buys anything from them unless it's on clearance, or marked down is off their rocker. But I may bend for their lighting department, at least for the light bulbs if I don't find them elsewhere for cheaper.
Since the house has its roots back in the 1920's and Einy I've found has a very high liking for R.H.'s lighting especially the industrial look. I'm thinking of bending for 3 or 4 of these lights at 129$ a piece with the Edison bulbs for the basement. Even though it will be only used when needed I think should carry a theme as well. No one really likes going to their basement. But to me, if it was left with a clean floor, medium glossy painted walls (perhaps mix some luster dust into the paint when he's not looking) to catch the light and these fixtures. I may not resent having to haul laundry up and down from the basement or the Christmas decorations, or canned/deep frozen food.
Don't they look mysterious? Reminds me of lights you'd see when sneaking down into a 20's Mobster smoke room, or a steam punk workshop.
If you can believe it they want to charge you 10$ more for having the Silver/Reflective underside. The same thing can be done with chrome paint or cut mirror squares. Honestly, what people won't do to make a buck. I also found the same lights for 10$-20$ cheaper at Barn Light Electric. So R.H. Can bite me unless someone gets them for us as a gift.
Speaking of Gifts, if anyone wanted to help us out Donations in the form of 1 or 2 rolls of R-30 or R-19 Faced Insulation would be grateful. We need to do the ceiling, roof and walls and while I've got most of the costs covered for our basics, the insulation is going to drain us dry real fast.
Oh, and did I mention there's no stairs inside the house to the basement? Yeah, so now we have to cut into my pretty living room and into our tiny library/PC room to make them. I hate the idea with a passion, but as Einy pointed out. Who wants to go outside in the middle of winter or a bad storm to get to the basement door and fix the breaker or carry up clean laundry? ..... So he won out on that argument. But when he's not looking I might do this to the stairs just because I've been wanting to do it to a set of steps. I can only imagine the light that could bounce around with them.
Recently I've been receiving a catalogue called Restoration Hardware. Two things come to mind when I look through it: Beautiful inspiration and Stupidly Expensive.
Whoever buys anything from them unless it's on clearance, or marked down is off their rocker. But I may bend for their lighting department, at least for the light bulbs if I don't find them elsewhere for cheaper.
Since the house has its roots back in the 1920's and Einy I've found has a very high liking for R.H.'s lighting especially the industrial look. I'm thinking of bending for 3 or 4 of these lights at 129$ a piece with the Edison bulbs for the basement. Even though it will be only used when needed I think should carry a theme as well. No one really likes going to their basement. But to me, if it was left with a clean floor, medium glossy painted walls (perhaps mix some luster dust into the paint when he's not looking) to catch the light and these fixtures. I may not resent having to haul laundry up and down from the basement or the Christmas decorations, or canned/deep frozen food.
Don't they look mysterious? Reminds me of lights you'd see when sneaking down into a 20's Mobster smoke room, or a steam punk workshop.
If you can believe it they want to charge you 10$ more for having the Silver/Reflective underside. The same thing can be done with chrome paint or cut mirror squares. Honestly, what people won't do to make a buck. I also found the same lights for 10$-20$ cheaper at Barn Light Electric. So R.H. Can bite me unless someone gets them for us as a gift.
Speaking of Gifts, if anyone wanted to help us out Donations in the form of 1 or 2 rolls of R-30 or R-19 Faced Insulation would be grateful. We need to do the ceiling, roof and walls and while I've got most of the costs covered for our basics, the insulation is going to drain us dry real fast.
Oh, and did I mention there's no stairs inside the house to the basement? Yeah, so now we have to cut into my pretty living room and into our tiny library/PC room to make them. I hate the idea with a passion, but as Einy pointed out. Who wants to go outside in the middle of winter or a bad storm to get to the basement door and fix the breaker or carry up clean laundry? ..... So he won out on that argument. But when he's not looking I might do this to the stairs just because I've been wanting to do it to a set of steps. I can only imagine the light that could bounce around with them.
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