On January 2, 2010, the big room in the basement looked like this:
Now on January 1, 2011, the big room in the basement is now a medium room, a pantry (storage shelves plus freezer), and a wine/root cellar (cool room with passive exterior vent). The medium room still needs some coats of drywall mud before it becomes the family room, but there is now heat in the basement.
