Starting on the Basement

Time to finish off the basement! That's been my mantra for the past 14 years living in this house. But as all projects go, other items move up on the laundry list of things to do, and other things get placed way down this list. Well, will all the home improvements we've been doing this past year, it was time to start the basement project.

Last summer, we started doing some initial cleaning of the basement, ridding ourselves of furniture & books & other items that finds it's way downstairs labeled "unused but not ready to let go". Well, the initial Clean Sweep did wonders, but then it refilled with moving a bunch of stuff out of the other rooms that we were remodeling.

So, I put on the work gloves, picked up GIANT size trash bags, heavy duty of course, and got to work. All books went into boxes & given to the RH Library. The old cabinets that were down there got empty & beaten to trash size pieces. All memorability of the kids got sorted and stored in tubs. Racks were purchased for the storage area & everything that was a keeper went on the racks....preferably in a tub.