Movie Area in the Basement

I'm calling it! The media area of the basement, that was once a total mess and, before that, a billiard area, is DONE! Officially ready to host movie nights, teens hangs, cousin snuggles and more. And we love it.

This was the original plan. You can read the entire plan in this post.

And just for fun, this is what it looked like once the walls were rebuilt and prepped for paint... (hi Pepper!)

And here it is from the seller's photos (with a very wide angle lens) that shows this area in use a billiards room...

As mentioned in the planning, we are not pool players and so we very precariously moved the HEAVY pool table to the other side of the basement so this one and only large area of the basement could be designed as a movie-watching spot -- since that's what we do as a family.

The Marvel theme came from picking the Marvel wallpaper for the bathroom (post on that coming next). And the gray, white and red color scheme followed.

Lots more to do, since this is just ONE space of four in the basement. That Basement Master Plan can be found here.

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