It took six years, but our basement family room is finally one of our favorite rooms in the house!  Getting to this point was not easy.  We had to wait until we had the money to buy furniture, while also deciding where to put it in the challenging space.  The room’s layout didn’t leave us with many options:  you walk in from the north, there is a fireplace on the west wall, a large window on the south wall, and the east wall has a wet bar.  I’ll explain more about the furniture in a moment, but first, here is a look back at how the room looked shortly after we bought the house:

Back in 2013, we changed the color of the room from yellow, to “Irish Mist,” a Behr Premium Plus paint color.

After that, the room essentially became our workout area.

It’s also where we feed the cats (Robert waiting patiently)

In the following couple of years, friends and family gifted us hand-me-down furniture and carpet remnants, and the room began to feel more like a living room.

We knew we wanted to someday put a big-screen TV in the room, along with a big, comfy sectional couch, but first, we wanted to update the wet bar:

Click here to see the wet bar makeover project and click here to see what it took to mount the sink in the countertop.

Here is one last picture of the room, before we bought new furniture:

And here are the after photos:

The TV is a TCL 65″ Roku that we bought from Costco.  It sits on a hardwood TV stand, which we also found at Costco.  Thanks to my friend Eric for helping me lift it into the basement!

The couch is a Rainier 3-piece sectional that we found at Hom Furniture (pillows included).

Go Hawks!

As you can see, we support the Iowa Hawkeyes, University of Northern Iowa Panthers, Minnesota Wild, and are now on a mission to find something to hang up to support the Minnesota Vikings and Twins.  We also installed a power outlet in the wall for the neon clock.

Thanks for reading!

-Mike