Finishing the Basement

After much deliberation, we've decided to finish our basement first before we renovate our master bath. As much as I am dying to have an elegant master retreat like Janice's, the practical thing for us to do is to reclaim the massive living space downstairs -- our basement is frigging 1,500 sq ft in size.

Here is a quick design plan I threw together. What do you think? Anything you'd change to maximize the liveable space? Bigger bathroom maybe? We are interviewing a few contractors so I will post some good (and professional) ones when I have them.

And if you know me, you will guess the next thing I am going to do after I finalize the structural plan is to compile a mood board (love this exercise, it's like my fantasy world). I will post updates as I have them.

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