This & That

A little bit of this first: Glennie did a flip flop. We had signed a letter of commitment with Rush and then the U16 P2 Westminster coach called the end of that week. He *really* wanted Glennie on the team. So after all the pro's and con's and deliberation again, Glenn decided he wanted to play for Westminster. We found out that he had until Nov. 15th to back out of the Rush commitment. So he did. YAY - now the Call's and Ellis' can have fun together at games. Glennie's indoor season started this past Thursday.... and he had a blast. We also found out that he will be in a tournament in Gilbert, AZ come February. We now have both kids playing for Westy and hope to be there till they are done with competitive soccer.

Now onto the bigger stuff. We are in the process of finishing our basement. Below is the floor plan Glenn drew up. The storage room will double as a closet and have access to under the stair storage too. There will be 2 food storage closets across from the utilities and where it says 'study' will actually be a home theater room. The family room/rec. room will consist of a small pub style table with a pool table(the pool table we got on sale at Walmart last Christmas Eve for $100!!!!!!) and a wet bar. We have moved the wet bar to the end of the wall near the corner there. We have all the electricity done and working... the water lines for the wet bar have been started... and we need to chisel the bathroom concrete to move all the rough in plumbing - fun fun! Glenn has done everything himself and we are looking to hire out someone to do the drywall/mud and taping. Depending on the cost!! He's done it before and knows how much he hates it... but if it's too expensive then he'll do it!!

Here's the floor plan

When we moved in, we tore up all the carpet and pad the builder put in upstairs and put it in the basement. We figured with the theater room, probably being noisy and my office is right above it, we added some padding in between the studs and joists. This photo is on the stairs looking into the pool table area and the theater room.

This is of the hall looking toward the bedroom. Food storage closets on the left and utilities on the right.
This is the bedroom. We contemplated what to do here for a while. We had this pipe that stuck out and we had to build around it. We thought of a night stand, but it wasn't centered.. so we ended up with a 1/2 wall. The bottom part of the wall will kick out, till almost half and then go back in. We've thought about building bookshelves or something on the top.. but for now.. we'll just have a bump out in the wall.

This is the wet bar area that will be in the rec. room

This is the theater room. The floor is all one level, except for the part where the couch will go. We raised that part to have 'theater seating' - we will have 2 theater recliner chairs in front of the raised portion.