It's going to be EPIC...hopefully!

As you all know Oliver and I pretty much watch Studio 5 every day.  Pretty sure my little man would recognize Brooke and Darin if we ever happened to see them in real life anywhere...that sounds a little sad :)  Anyways, the other day on there they had the fabulous Mandi from Vintage Revivals and she mentioned this EPIC room makeover that she will be doing.  So we hopped on over to her blog to see what it was all about, let me tell you, it's going to be awesome.  So that's where we get to the point we're at now.  I get to post embarrassing photos of my basement in hopes that it will soon be fabulous thanks to Mandi!  Here we go:

Welcome to our basement living room... dun dun dun!  Basically I tried to ignore it's existence after we moved in and let me tell you, I've done pretty good up to this point.  But now that Oliver is having separation anxiety every time I try to go put a load of laundry in it needs more help than just throwing a blanket down and hoping that somehow he won't move from that spot for long enough to get what I need done.  That's where this contest comes in.  Hopefully we will win and then the room will be so amazing that we will just spend all of our time in the basement :)

As you can see it's basically just a storage/whatever room at the moment.  That is our old furniture that we moved down there after getting new couches upstairs...and basically they are now just there so I can stack stuff on them.

And here is the totally awful, nasty stained carpet that was there when we moved in (now you know the need for a blanket when I bring Oliver down)

Yes, those are remnants of wallpaper that we found when I tore down tacky plastic fake paneling because I couldn't sleep one more night knowing that it was in my house!

As you can see, this room has the makings of a nice cozy place where I would love to let Oliver come play with me, but with zero budget money, we make it work as is.  Please Mandi come help me!