Cleaning Up The MESS In The Basement

Start Drooling!

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Don't you love it?
Me!Too!
Too bad it belongs to someone else.
Let's talk reality here!

Our basement is divided into three sections.

One side is a media room and gathering place.

I will show you that another time.

Another section is a small kitchenette

created from the materials from 

 the old kitchen when we remodeled this house.

  This hangs above the old kitchen sink.

The door reflected in the mirror opens to

the utility room holding furnace and water heater.

Now the THIRD space is the one I always hide.

But I am coming clean here.

It's been a MESS down there.

Seriously.

I just couldn't take it another minute.

After lunch I headed down and opened the doors to 

THIS.

Disheartening, huh?

Whenever I ask SOMEONE who shall remain nameless MyHero

to carry something downstairs for me 

it gets DUMPED 

on the floor just inside the door.

Some day I am gonna just dump 

his underwear on the floor

after doing laundry just for fun.

Well, I have HAD ENOUGH so

I start sorting and cleaning and storing.

 I had the bright idea to screen things off.

I whipped up some drop cloth curtains 

and strung them from the rafters to create "rooms".

Behind this curtain is another area screened off for

Christmas stuff.  I don't DARE tell you how many

Christmas totes I have back here.

You would think I was lying anyway.

Oh- SO much better.

The sailboat curtains screens off the paint section.

Remember this is the unfinished part of the basement.

Not perfect but so much better.

Whew- What a lot of work.
I climb the steps feeling tired but relieved 

that the job is done.

I get a Diet Coke and head out the back door to

gaze at the water glad that there are no more

messes hanging over my head.

Or are there?

What the......................?????