Yes, that's right folks. We had a futon. It was actually pretty gross. Who knows how many guys ended up sleeping on that thing while it was a bachelor pad. It had random spots on it and there were actually two futon mattresses stacked on one futon frame because "it wasn't comfortable." Of course it's not comfortable! It's a futon! Ok, enough about futons, this post is about the room that housed the futon. The room we called the "futon room," even after we gave the thing away. This room eventually became our exercise room, back before I became pregnant and exercised more frequently.
Before we started the reno, there were two closets in the room: one under the stairs, and a bifold door closet jutting into what would become the basement bedroom. We decided to remove the bifold closet and wall it off, tearing it down in the basement bedroom and adding some square footage in the process! Here is the before:
And here is the after:
Another problem area we had was the entry from the hallway into this room. In the old floor plan, this room opened straight into the garage. Since we eventually wanted to add a bathroom, we wanted to move the entire door over to the right to make space for the bathroom. The pictures explain it better:
-Before: Doorway was to the left, leaving no space for a bathroom behind that wall.
-After: doorway now leads into the tiled mudroom area coming off the garage, leaving space for a bathroom to be added.
It had a built-in bookcase that was dark brown, like the previous handrail of the staircase. My dad came over and spray painted it crisp white!
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