Lower Level Completion

Bob and Lea Morrison wanted to finish their lower level.  Part of this area had been finished when the home was built, but a recreation room and bar area had not yet been completed.  The Morrison's have a truly unique home appointed with oak columns, stone fireplace and an overall arts and crafts flair.

The future site of the recreation room was octagonal in shape.  This provided opportunities as well as challenges in the design phase of this project.  The walls that currently divided this space from the open area (and future bar area) would be removed.  The new recreational space had some requirements - a fireplace, new windows, an art wall and a storage/display cabinet.  Bob had drawn his vision of the fireplace finish - it included oak beams, a stone hearth and a tile surround, so we were off to a good start.

The future site of the bar was an existing finished space that was largely unused.  The original house plans showed a bar lay-out for this space, but neither myself nor the Morrison's were in love with it!  We started to plan a new lay-out, but we were encountering some challenges in this space.  Lea realized that if we removed a section of wall (that was non-structural), we could have the bar design we desired, actually better!

The cabinetry we selected in the design phase has an arts and crafts inspired door style and used this impetus to help us select the rest of the finishes.  Some of the exciting and challenging moments in any project will come in the finishes - we are looking forward to:  concrete stained flooring, the oak cabinetry, granite tile countertops, stone tile backsplash, oak columns to mirror the existing home, the fireplace stone, hearth and surround. 

The "before" pictures will give some perspective of the space we started with, we have our plan for construction and we are ready to build...