The final section of our new house tour! This ‘floor’ is beneath ground level – it’s the basement! Whilst I’m calling it a basement, I think most would call it a cellar. Is there a difference? I’m not sure. Either way, it’s underground, you get what I mean. At the moment it’s really just there for storage. It’s a little humid down there and there’s little ventilation. At the moment, it’s not somewhere you would want to spend a great deal of time.
We’re not 100% sure on what we intend to do with it just yet. Of course, making it into a proper room would be most ideal, but I guess that really depends on the cost. Time will tell – but here’s the tour for now…
The stairs to the cellar are behind this door in the dining room.
Following the stairs down you come to a sort of ‘foyer’ area. Loving the quarry tiles and old barn-style doors down here!
This little area also has this beautiful original cupboard. Can’t wait to strip paint and scrub this up!
To the right of the stairs are two rooms with stable-like doors.
The first door holds the electric and gas meter and also the original meat safes. These would have been used to store raw meat before the days of fridges, and presumably, the netted doors would keep the flies out. I also love the floor in here!
The second room is where the coal chute comes through. Coal would be shovelled down that chute and stored in this room. Needless to say, it’s a little dusty in here.
Ahead of the stairs is a corridor that was probably used as an overflow room, when the previous room became full. Well, that’s what we think anyway!
And then we have one final room (I know, there’s so many!) which is to the right of the stairs. We’re not sure what this room would have been used for, perhaps a servant living space? Or maybe it just provided extra storage. Either way, it’s pretty huge! And probably our favourite room down here.
A lot of space huh? It’s probably the biggest basement I’ve been in and has literally SO much potential, I can’t tell you how excited I am. We just need that little thing called ‘money’ first, ugh!
So that’s it! House tour complete. Time to get renovating! Watch this space…
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Hi there,just wondering if the approach you went for with cellar did the trick? Did it get fully dry. If you think about it this way makes total sense for an old stone house.
Hi Janey! We were quite lucky as our basement wasn’t truly damp in the first place, although the air felt very humid down there when we first bought the house. All the improvements we’ve made has solved that (ventilation / better air circulation is probably the thing that helped the most!), and with the dehumidifier, we’ve able to store things down there without anything (yet!) going mouldy. It’s still probably early days to say for sure though, as it’s only been 6 months. I’ll do an updated post when I can say for sure!