One Room Challenge: Fall 2020

One Room Challenge: Fall 2020

Hi friends!

I’m trying something new here. If you have been around for awhile - you know we have a lot of space in our basement. We have around 2,000 square feet that formerly was used as apartments for college boys since the 1960s.

We finished one side of the basement for an apartment/extension for family in our home. Details here.

Now we are going to finish the other space as a guest bedroom for family as well!

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An Alternative to a Drop Ceiling

An Alternative to a Drop Ceiling

In our basement Airbnb, our electrician recommended we do a drop ceiling. One reason for us to do a drop ceiling was because we have not renovated our kitchen the floor above yet and may need to run plumbing and wiring.

But I really dislike typical drop ceilings and was not thrilled with this idea. I found an alternative option on pinterest and we created beautiful tray ceiling instead of the typical drop ceiling. This is work my husband would typically do, but since we were about to have a baby, we hired this out locally.

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this week - 01

We finally finished our airbnb in our basement and its ready to rent! See the listing here & I’m starting to get sources online here if you are curious about where anything is from. I also have put a lot of things on our amazon list because we have found that to be an affordable place for light fixtures, etc.

I got this top off Amazon this week and love it! Then I realized my coat was the same brand (an amazon brand). Now that I have loved a couple items from Amazon - I’m eyeing this & this.

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