February 15, 2006
Basement: New Final Plans
As I assumed, if I labeled anything "Final Plans" then I was in for a major revision.
In this case, we ditched the bedroom. Kaput. Gone. Number of bedrooms? 0. Got rid of them all. All 1 of them.
Anyway, the thinking goes like this:
We have a guest bedroom upstairs. For the next 10 years or so, it will serve quite admirably for its purpose for housing guests.
In return, we get a much larger play and craft space in the basement as the kids grow up.
Then, perhaps in a decade or so, we may need to make an allowance for a child wanting his own bedroom. This means either moving the guest bedroom to the basement or moving a kid to the basement.
At that point, with some pre-planning, we could conceivably throw up a couple walls and víola! we have a bedroom. Pre-planning would mostly include ensuring a separate electrical circuit with the correct requirements is strung to that area (AF circuits, smoke detector, etc).
Or, if it turns out the kids stay in the same room or we decide not to build a bedroom later, we'll have greater flexibility in 10 years to decide what we *do* want to build down there. Office? Art studio? Bigger bedroom? True entertainment center room? Who knows?
But we'll have the option and it won't be difficult to add on to later. And as I said, we'd get the nice, big, open floorplan in the meantime for playtime with the kiddos.
Still a bathroom, but no bedroom to clog up the passing lanes...
Wide Open Plains
*Oh, and this allows us to make the Utility Work room a tad bigger ;-)
Posted by BilFish at February 15, 2006 01:47 PM