A few months ago, we visited my cousins up in Farmington who have a similar floor plan to ours. We were amazed to find that they had finished half of their crawl space to be a play room for the kids. Brilliant! We sat in there and chatted a lot of the time, and just loved the idea. I could see the wheels turning in Pace’s head, and I just knew that we were going to have to copy the idea in our own house. When Pace had some extra website work come up, we figured this was our chance to make the “clubhouse” happen!
A contractor friend of ours was totally on board with it. Pace went ahead and cut a hole in the wall after letting the kids kick it and throw ninja stars at it. That night, he wanted to level out the very bumpy, uneven concrete floor. He got some fill dirt stuff that turned out to basically be manure…. Our house smelled BAD. So Gretchen helped scoop it back out of the space after we’d dumped it in there. Our garden was happy to accept the stinky offering.
We have some amazing family and friends who helped with the concrete (the concrete and paint were the only things we did ourselves, and it shows!). It definitely saved us some money on the project. Thanks to Jake, Bracken, Jim, Gretchen, and Tyler for your concrete work!
Rachel, Gretchen, and I tended the children, and these photos were just too cute to not post!
I took a few photos of the insulation on my phone only, but here we skip ahead to the drywalled, textured room– ready to paint! We bought a light sage green paint, but Pace decided after a little bit of painting that he hated the look, so we headed back and got some beige Kilz paint (called “Tahini”). We painted the outer accent wall the same brown color as the kitchen (“Toasted Pecan”). TMom & Jess took the kids to the bookstore so Pace, Gretchen and I could paint. Thanks, everyone! What would we do without our family?
…The finished product! We LOVE it! The room is 4.5 feet tall, so the kids can stand up just fine in there. They especially love running up and down the little ramp that goes into the room. We call this room the “Clubhouse” so the kids will think it’s cool/appealing to play in there. 🙂
