Creating a Dream Kid Space

Our basement has two main areas and we renovated one of the areas in 2019 but this area is where our exercise area is, my husband’s office space AND a “kids space”. Obviously this hasn’t really worked out because the kids have no space to play with all the exercise equipment everywhere and my husband’s computer business takes up the other 1/4 of the room. My parents had a genius idea for the other half of our basement which is currently overcrowded with storage and nonsense. As daunting as it is to have to think about going through all that shit, we need more space for these growing kids (:

In the next few months we are focusing on decluttering and organizing all the shit down in the unfinished part of the basement and then cleaning and putting down waterproof flooring into our crawl spaces. The crawl spaces in our basement are a HUGE source of space for us but they are in dire shape and quite disgusting. The plan is to vacuum them out, paint the crawl space walls and floors with watertite paint and then put to down waterproof flooring (we are using this). After that we can put all the organized bins and stuff that needs to go into storage, into the crawl spaces. A small set of stairs will be put in to get up into the crawl spaces.

This is very difficult to describe so please see the below video of our filthy basement :)

The rest of this post contains:

• video of the current basement situation

• the plan to overhaul the unfinished part

• how we plan to revamp the finished part of the basement into a kid friendly space

• the best items to keep kids busy indoors

Next week’s paid post will be our inspiration for the side of the basement we are renovating and will contain all our thoughts for the exercise room! I will let you know what we already have in our home gym and some inspiration for the gym in general.