I loved this house.... and it had a blank slate for a basement... concrete floors and cinderblock walls and open beam ceiling...Nothing done... I used to roller skate around the big basement for exercise... after I got home from work to destress... Then my mind started creating... so I painted the walls white first..and hung some Van Gogh Reproduction Prints on each wall of the basement and visualized... then started creating... with Garage Floor Paint... and Stained Glass... This was the cafe... I was taking Piano and guitar and this was my Music Dance Studio...
I started with the doorway... LOL.. the previous owner had left this really heavy door against the wall and I couldn't move it.. so I painted around it and that was the start... As you can see I looked at the cafe painting and copied the doorway... and then I went on to the Pebble floor and stone patio. Probably, the table that I already had and the door I couldn't move made me decide to do this when I was skating in circles around the basement on the concrete floor... You can imagine.. my mind was creating while I was skating. This is the same thing I do when I am kayaking and there are not any fish or large turtles or heron to capture my camera focus or my mind focus....
Sometimes I feel I am a tortured creative soul, but I am laughing as creating-not wanting to cut my ear off.
I took up Guitar and Piano and Just had a hoot of a time... working hard and playing hard for ten years...
This side was really elaborate... I did the paint first and then the stained glass windows and the walls... then the copper ceiling tiles...and of course, the fab pool table.. pity the phone company man who bet us a game of pool...RFLOL We won!When I bought this house the beams were covered with mud from the original building of the house, apparently the owners never used the basement at all... I did enjoy this place for about ten years.... I got my monies worth just out of the creative fun in the basement.
With the help of a fabulous electrician who was helping me with the bathroom you can see to the right.... He suggested I have a mirror ball over my dance floor and it would rotate when I practice my dancing with the pole you see there... LOL... I had two of those poles one on each side of the dance floor and I would swing dance and hustle with the help of jumpropes tied to the poles as arms...I had the best time dancing.........Jack Vettriano Paintings to dance with me...
'Dance Me to the End of Love'
They just felt right on the wall in the dark glow of the mirror ball spinning....
And that was just part of the wonderful life I have led, but a Decade ode to the painted basement with the full studio in the back of the basement... for sewing and stained glass...with builtins and a custom exhaust fan for stained glass...This was the basement...
I did use some FABRIC upstairs... and the ceiling of the dance floor was the mirrored fabric of the time.
All of this fabric came from G street ... Notice the chair seats are covered with the same fabric as the draperies...and we carried the look into the kitchen which had an open wall into this family room. This is where the draperies matched in the kitchen and the kitchen table slipseats were the same fabric with a white country farmhouse table and dark wood table top
Fun in Every Room for Decorating
