Since the primary focus of this blog is projects, i thought it would be appropriate to talk about my new space a bit. Last week, I’ve moved into a new home. Mostly we wanted a home that was more on one level to accommodate my wife and kids and their mobility issues, but also we moved closer to where I work. The new house has a pretty nice unfinished basement area, which opens out to the backyard under a deck on the main/upper floor. Being unfinished, it’s effectively a clean slate to do what I want with. My son is taking a corner of it for his room, but I’ve been working to plan out the rest of it to accommodate a media area, space for my toys and space for my electronics and computer.
A lot of things will probably flux a bit but I’ve got a pretty good idea of how things are going to lay out. It may be a bit before any real work gets done, there are other projects that have funding priority over building walls in the basement, but I still wanted to throw out a baseline starting point. I’ll do some updates from time to time as work is done.
Here’s the primary space, full of boxes at the moment. The far space in the back will be the space for electronics, my computer, and books. Essentially, the office space. I also have plans to set up a little photography space in the corner using a corner unit I built several years ago. The corner unit has a large top surface I can set up lighting and backdrops on and space underneath that I can store props and diorama parts in for use in photos.
I have some better book cases in storage that will go on the back wall. The desk will probably continue to stick out int he room the way it is there in the center. The space to the right where the larger boxes are I intend to build some nice shelving units to contain my collection of toys.
This will be the future media wall. Its a bit more cleaned up than the other corner, we were without internet and TV for a bit so I pulled all of the DVDs out onto this shelf so the kids could find them more easily. The main issue here is the lack of any power outlets, however adding outlets will be fairly easy. The udea int he long run will be to add a second identical book case on the right full of video games, and put the TV in the middle mounted to the wall. I also want to build or buy some sort of unit to go under the TV that will house all of my various game consoles and their controllers, all ready to be used and played. We have a couch to go in front of all of this, but there isn’t space at the moment so it’s in the garage.
At this point I’ve mostly been working on sorting and organizing boxes. Things are at a bit of a stand still until I can retrieve the other book cases and add some power outlets. I also don’t want to get things too settled until I can add some actual walls in front of the concrete, I’m not a huge fan of that grungy cave look. The ceiling will likely end up being a drop ceiling so that I can still access the underside of the floor easily.