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WanMan
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While a lot of us with basements plan for the home theater, I am curious what the other rooms in your basement are used for. I've not given much focus beyond the full bathroom and the pantry/kitchen that contains a low ceiling because of the converging mechanicals making headroom a premium.
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garyfritz
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My office (I work at home), my wife's craft room, a guest bedroom and mini-kitchen / bathroom, a crammed storage room, and a big open area in the middle.
We have a walkout basement so the office / craft room / bedroom / open area all have windows.
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AnalogRocks
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What's in your basement?
3 industrial sized boilers and a big honkin' hot water tank.
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Angus_rg
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Junk and power tools, and a projector. Worst thing I ever did was buy a projector. It really slowed the construction process down.
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Laundry room. Large room with fireplace opening that you can't get to because of all the plastic containers and an Ampro and a NEC on the floor. One small storage room with some Martin Logan speakers, modded Hafler amp, other stereo goodies, and an abundance of left over grand children stuff. On the other side of the wall is a work bench, radial arm saw, a practice 8500 on top of an old kitchen table, a makeshift screen, and shelving up the cazoo. Being a pack rat is worse than being a smoker.
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Curt Palme
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Dead people.
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JustGreg
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| Curt Palme wrote: | | Dead people. |
I don't think he meant UNDER the basement Curt. 
As for my dungeon, a dedictated HT (constantly under construction), an ante area outside the theater where the bar and cafe` tables will be (also in various stages of completion), a mechanicals room (natural gas furnace/AC, a 50 gal AO Smith water heater, a 100 gal solar panel tank, a smaller 15 gal pressurizer tank for the solar also, a full bath, a 20x14-ish room full of shat (boxes of crap the wife just HAS to keep  ), and a laundry room with a work bench at one end of the room.
I WISH it was a walkout! Nuttin but 2 casement winda's that slide open (in case of fire only the thin skinny assed people will survive...leaves me out! ) and 2 glass block casement winda's.
Only one 14-ish ft length of foundation left to frame and finish...once I pinpoint the exact location of where %$#&*! water in a foundation crack is coming from and fix it.
Foundation on crack...or vice versa.
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WanMan
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| Curt Palme wrote: | | Dead people. |
Finally got those annoying neighbors quiet, eh?
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Angus_rg
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| WanMan wrote: | | Curt Palme wrote: | | Dead people. |
Finally got those annoying neighbors quiet, eh? |
Curt is the quiet neighbors. Why do you think there's dead people in his basement.
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I don't have a basement.
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Mine's full of..... DIRT!
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Bucketfoot
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I've got my area. The rest is filled with lots of storage.
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WanMan
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| Person99 wrote: | | I don't have a basement. |
Trailer Trash? 
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Dirt
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perisoft
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Is it a basement if the back bit is completely under ground, and the ground falls away outside so it's open at the front? Hmmm... 
Regardless, on my... er... lowest floor... reside my bedroom, HT, future office (current storage) and laundry room.
These probably all fit into the same square footage you guys dedicate to your wet bars. 
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Mark_A_W
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I've never seen a basement. Not under a house, only under apartments, for car parking.
You guys live in a different world.
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perisoft
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| Mark_A_W wrote: | | You guys live in a different world. |
Nah... we just live on the top of it!
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