How To Decorate Basement Apartment

Hey friends! I take a fun post for you lot today, a little peek at an area of our dwelling we don't testify very often!

Here's the backstory if you're new here or need a refresher :). A year ago our daughter Courtney moved out of her Seattle apartment and moved into our lower level. She's lived on her ain for years, but we were excited to accept her come stay with u.s.a. equally long as she wanted to!

This was intended to be a relatively curt term situation, just little did nosotros know when she moved in, we were just weeks away from the first "stay at home order" for Covid here in Seattle in 2020. Long story short, she has been living at our home for almost a year at present (along with her blood brother who also ended up at home after they sent college students abode concluding bound). It was a blessing for united states of america to exist together in 2020, just now that we are get-go a new yr, she'southward ready to head back out!

I'll let her tell you the story of her little apartment space and what'south next for her!

Hello everyone! Courtney here. I'm excited to be here today showing you lot the cozy little basement space I've been living in for the last year! Moving out of my kickoff flat was bittersweet for me–I loved living there but knew I would be happy if I took some time to salve and prepare for my side by side adventure (what that was going to exist, I didn't know at the time!).

Patently I had no thought that nosotros would exist about to feel the crazy year that nosotros did in 2020 (that definitely wasn't an take a chance any of united states of america were expecting to keep, ha!). I am incredibly thankful for the fashion that timing worked out. I had just gotten all settled in hither right when the pandemic began. I couldn't believe how blessed I was to exist safe at home here with my family instead of alone at my apartment.

With all the changes in the globe, some of our basement apartment design ideas adjusted as well! Nosotros originally considered turning the basement laundry room into a kitchen that I would use while living here. But when my blood brother came home from college, we decided that wasn't necessary and we decided to consume our meals together as a family upstairs instead. Once more, that quality time together has been such an unexpected blessing I'm and so thankful for.

We did still requite the basement bath a simple refresh this summer and honey how it turned out! If you missed that y'all can see the makeover here.

I'll evidence you around more than of the space!

If you recall, when my parents originally bought this house, the basement was basically ane huge carpeted room with a white brick fireplace. Nosotros had a wall built to create a split office, and installed new floors. My little living room hither with the daybed used to be where my mom'south desk was (you can see that here).

The paint colour in here is Coventry Grayness by Benjamin Moore. It'southward a lovely pale gray with simply a hint of blue!

I've had this futon for years–it was my bed back when I lived in a tiny bedroom at my sister Kylee's townhouse (tour that small space sleeping room here), and it served as my burrow in my sometime studio apartment (you can take that tour hither).

I got it here, but it looks like it's not in stock anymore. This one is similar, or this one with a trundle.

One of my favorite parts of this basement is how total of natural calorie-free information technology is! It's definitely not a dreary lower level–it'south quite cheery with lord's day streaming in fifty-fifty on those darker Seattle days. We added white plantation shutters a few years ago down here which add prissy architectural detail and privacy.

These fun curtains add together to the cheery feel of the basement as well. My mom got them here several years agone–they used to exist in the navy role at her sometime house. We love them in here!

Now heading into the bordering space, where my bed and closets are!

This armoire has been in this room since we moved in here. Nosotros used to continue linens in it, merely when I moved in I started using it as a closet. It was a natural forest that I recently painted with this milk pigment in Bergere. I love how it turned out! I'll share the before and later and more about that in a split up mail soon. (Update: click Here for the armoire makeover details!)

I already had 1 narrow PAX wardrobe, and to add together more than cupboard infinite I purchased a new double PAX wardrobe to add next to information technology when I moved in. These have the Bergsbo doors.

Here's a peek of the inside! I love that you can customize the inside of these wardrobes to suit the storage you lot need. I chose several shelves, a soft close drawer, and those hanging bars. If you lot get a deeper PAX wardrobe yous tin can choose a horizontal hanging bar instead of the bars I have here. I wasn't sure how well these would work for hanging clothes, but it ended up being perfect and such helpful storage.

Note…these closets are commonly a lot more than full of wearing apparel than these photos (more on why later in this post!).

I beloved the 'kind of built-in' expect they give this space.

I ordered these handles separately in the 10.five inch size. They're a bit spendy particularly if y'all demand several, but really beautiful and nice quality! Here are like ones on Amazon, I can't vouch for the quality but they are a much lower cost.

One of the 'design challenges' of this space was the mirrored wall on the back of the room. We have lots of ideas for how to cover it, just my temporary solution when I moved in was to hang a tapestry over it. And that's how it's stayed. :) It definitely isn't perfect, but much better than the full wall of mirror! I got the tapestry hither.

The blue door was woods when I moved in, and I brightened it upwards by painting information technology Airway by Benjamin Moore.

The carpet in here is this washable one from Ruggable. We dear it–they're definitely a corking carpet selection to consider if you lot take pets or kids! We're getting a Ruggable runner for our kitchen soon too.

I've spent a lot of time on this daybed this year, ha! It'southward my go-to evening relaxation infinite and also my sometimes 'work from home office'.

The small narrow shelf by the daybed is called the LACK wall shelf unit from Ikea. I've had it for years!

Okay friends, that's the tour! I have loved making this space my cozy little home (when I'thou not hanging out with my family upstairs!). The extra time I've had living with my family here this last twelvemonth has truly been so special.

Fourth dimension has flown by this yr, and at present I'yard most to be heading onto my next run a risk. :)

In the next couple weeks I'll be moving upward to a charming town past the water in Bellingham, Washington! I have a brand new flat that I'm and then excited to settle into. It'south a 500 foursquare human foot one bedroom, so my minor infinite blueprint skills will go on to be sharpened, ha! But information technology's very cute and I'll definitely exist sharing the empty bout of it with you here shortly!

Y'all can also follow me on Instagram where I've already shown peeks of my new flat in stories, and will continue to document the move and share updates! Thanks for following forth!

UPDATE: Yous can at present take a tour of my new apartment hither!

Source: https://theinspiredroom.net/2021/01/14/update-on-the-basement-apartment/

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