Sadly, we aren’t talking about an upcoming trip to Australia today. We are talking about Mathlete and his planning bug.  What is he planning you ask?  His current focus (his only focus?) right now has been on planning our future basement renovation.  Right now, our basement is home to a bunch of our junk, my crafting area (no, Mathlete, those are not redundant items) and maybe some random bugs.  Hopefully, by this time next year, that will be a thing of the past.

I have been complaining to sharing with my mom the ongoing planning of this basement project.   It isn’t that I am not excited about having a finished basement because I definitely am.  Right now, it is in the stage where I can’t picture it and it is mostly talk about electrical, plumbing and drywall.  You didn’t fall asleep there, did you?

Enter Floor Planner which allows you to create 2D and 3D floorplans to help people like me get excited about what is to come in a given space. Obviously, I left all the fun design stuff to Mathlete and just waited for the finished plan to land in my inbox {I did hold the tape measure for the measuring portion of this project}.  Want to take a look at our current {stage 1} draft plan?
First, in 2D

Now, in super fabulous 3D

As you can see, the plan for the basement to have storage, a theater area, a wet bar, bedroom and bathroom.  Where will my craft stuff be relocated to?  It is a little difficult to tell but the bedroom we’ve designed is HUGE.  So, my craft stuff will reside in there.
Once I got a picture of how it will look in my mind, I started planning different elements.  My first focus was the bar area.  I’ll share my plans with you for that space in an upcoming post!

Have you ever done a basement remodel?  Any tips to share?