Basement Level of House

The stairs that lead down to the basement level. This is a cat, Tiger.

This desk was Jeff's grandparents and it is on the wall on the bottom of the stairs.

This is one of the picture posters we have above the desk. We had these taken at the entrance to the Central Lakes Trail under hwy. 210 for those that live around here.

We had Strom Studio take the pictures for us. A friend and I saw on that Eric had done one of baseball kids and we thought it would be fun to have one taken of hockey kids. We got a few friends together with their boys and did the group. They turned out really cool for how cold it was that day. It was 40 mile an hour winds and very cold.

The family room from standing on the stairs. You can see the patio doors that lead to the patio.

The fireplace on the family room side and our TV.

The gold wall you see will eventually be a collage of family pictures. Jeff had the hanging system made just like we have for our maps. It is painted and ready to be hung up, so I will take more pictures of that when we get it up. You can see the doorway on the left that leads to the game room.

here is the hallway that leads to the game room on the right and the bathroom on this level. This is also our wet bar with a mini fridge at the end of the countertop.

This is electrical equipment that we need to touch for our family room. The rest of the house sound system equipment is behind this wall under the stairs. We have control panels spread through the house for XM radio, regular radio, and we can plug in an i-pod in many rooms. We have been using the sound system all the time and it was well worth the tons of money it cost.

This is the game room. We have all the board games and their Wii that Santa brought in here.

We were also able to get them a bubble hockey game on clearance for their room. Yes, you are seeing a theme with our kids. Hockey, hockey, hockey. They love the sport and cannot get enough of it.

Here is the rest of the bathroom you saw in the hallway. The door to the right is a closet and to the left leads under the stairs for the sound equipment stuff.

We had them make shelves for us for our DVDs and CDs. Follow this to the left for the stuff.

Our sound system guy spent many hours in this area connecting these wires. They are all labeled and I think only he knows what goes to what.

It kills me all the wiring it takes though. When he quoted the wiring for the house, he said it will take 2 miles of wiring. CRAZY!

Back to the family room TV. The first doorway is the wine sitting room and the 2nd doorway is my craft room.

Here is the sitting room. You can see the wine cellar door. The picture on the wall was given to us by the friends who were here on Super Bowl Sunday. We absolutely love it and it matches the room perfectly. Yes, the furniture is the same as the family room. If we ever need more seating, then we can move these recliners into the family room.

Other side of the room.

close-up of the fireplace

Jeff found these on a restoration website and we just had to put them in the wine cellar sitting room. We planned the mantel around them.

This was from the same website.

The wine cellar. Jeff is having his wine racks welded as I am typing. yes, they are also made out of steel. What else!

We are using these book shelves for glasses for right now.

This is plumbing for a sink that will be part of a table eventually. We will have the table made.

Here are the lights we have in the wine cellar.

This is my messy scrapbooking room that I absolutely love. I was at a day retreat a week ago and haven't unpacked from it yet. But I can leave it all in my room and not in my dining room like I used to.

Here is the desk that you saw at the bottom of the stairs. The doorway is to the mechanical room. yes, that is trouble the cat on the cat toy. That is her thrown and don't take her off of it.

mechanical room

I had a picture here of the hallway to the hockey room, but I accidentally deleted it and I have no idea how. I have put the hockey room on the blog before and it hasn't changed. the exercise room is just filled with boxes right now, so it isn't all the exciting.