Basement Woes My wife and I decided to finish our basement this year. Our house was built in 1949 so there are many things about this basement that are non-ideal for finishing. We have many conduit pipes below the joists, we have duct work that is in the way, we have a shower clean-out that is very much below the joists...I could go on. But we went ahead anyway. I framed in the new walls myself and then ran all of the electrical. It was a fine project.

Before we started I drew up an bunch of different layouts in Visio just to get an idea of how it would go. BTW Visio was much easier than trying to do it in CAD. All of the premade shapes were there and the editing was much simplier. So I had put a bunch of furniture and such in these new rooms partly to fill the rooms to give an idea of how much space would be in them and partly as I envisioned them being when we were done.

Now the have the drywall up and painted, the doors hung, and the carpet installed. So what happens. She says that the furniture I placed in the rooms on the drawings were simply for effect and she wants it completely different.

I set up one of the new rooms to be something of a home theater room. The TV and the speakers all positioned so that the effect is optimal. This does not jive with how she sees this room as a place for having a bunch of people over. She wants the TV in the corner and the speakers non equadistant. Sure, the home is the "woman's" place but I suppose I was naive to think that one room could be the way that I want.  ¶ 09:47