Nesting With Grace

by Brooke Christen

Basement Family Room- Utah Ranch Home

Our basement family room has gotten a lot of use already after only living here for 6 months. We especially love this large space to gather around the holidays and for winter birthdays! This basement space is a really long narrow room, basically a bowling ally! I was concerned with how narrow it was that we wouldn’t be able to get a lot of seating in here. I was wrong! With the right furniture placement we pulled it off! We have easily gathered with 20+ people and could squeeze in way more if needed!

The biggest things we did in this room was make the windows larger, moved the stairs to another location and updated the dark rock fireplace. The ceilings are 8′, so we painted the walls and ceilings the same bright white to make it feel larger, in All White from Farrow and Ball. We also added shiplap to the ceiling, we had our finish carpenters do that part before we moved in.

Basement Family Room Before-

Basement Family Room After-

Much brighter, don’t you think? We replaced the carpet with the same wood floor we put throughout our entire home, European Oak from Opus in Acropolis. And that fireplace!!! We didn’t just want to paint the rock, rather make it look like it was just a heavily textured wall. The mantel was already there, we left that as is. You can read how we did the rock wall here.

Family Room Links-

Gingham Rug // Velvet Sectional // Green Pillows // Pink Linen Pillow

Coffee Table (my exact isn’t available) //  96″ Slipcover Sofa (pacific pearl) // Wall Sconce

Art “With Freedom an Books” // Art Fairy Garden // Chess Set // Bookcase // Side Table // Lamp

Art Bloom // Art Raincoat // Black Floral Chair // Screen (affordable option here) // Leather Pouf
We did convert the fireplace from wood to gas. I like to be able to flip on the fire with a push of a button and instantly warm up the room and add a cozy vibe. Plus, Utah has a lot of “no burn days” meaning you can’t even light a fire in your home due to the air quality that get’s trapped in the valley from the mountains.
I just added these two chairs, from Riffle Paper Co, in the cutest print! We can push them together and closer to the TV or move around when we have parties! They are comfortable for a tight back chairs. Lola fell asleep in one the other night watching a family movie.
This art from Lindsay Letters, was my starting off point. I LOVE all the colors and the depth it adds to the all white. Balances out the black fireplace below too.
I was going to keep the mantle decor simple, but ended up packing it in! The scale of the mantle was asking for it! (Scroll to the bottom to find links to everything!)
Any opportunity to add a glow, I take! These battery operated candles inside these lanterns add a lot to the coziness.
This family room is a long room. The size of this family room is 15’x 44′. We broke it up into three sections to make it feel cozy and less overwhelming. First we have a seating space, then a game table area and lastly a game room.
I had a different rug in this space that felt too washed out. I needed more contrast. So I went with this oversized gingham pattern rug, I loved the pop of blue to pull in the bookcase (We will use the first rug in a makeover).
This gold velvet sectional was the first thing I bought for the room. It is really comfortable and I loved the retro vibe to match our 1970’s house. We have had it for 6 months and have really enjoyed it.
The coffee table took me awhile to find, I ended up finding it at a local design store (The Black Goose Design). I loved the size for this seating arrangement, it is 48″. Similar coffee table HERE.
Oversized chess set not only looks good, but is fun to play! A bowl of matching cards, my favorite to play with Finn. Games within reach is always a good idea! And the large glass fishing float is a favorite thing!
I have a collection of art over the gold sectional. “With freedom and books..“, “Yellow man” all play really well with the custom painting of my kids at our piano by Kim Hassold. I actually had that painting in a different spot, but wanted to see it more often!
I found that lamp at a cosnisgment shop, the scale is perfect in this room! One of my favorite recent finds!
I went with the 96″ Amelia Slipcover Sofa (in pacific pearl) to balance the gold sectional. It is really comfortable and I am thankful it is a slipcover! We’ve already washed the cushion cover.
Behind the sofa is where I added a game table, rug-printed sofa and the pink chairs we had from our Connecticut home. Games are played here often! And we loved this table for puzzles at Christmas. We always keep this marble game out, it is a favorite of everyones. I didn’t wire for a light over the table, so I used this floor lamp instead.
Since the wall is so long I did two of these bookcases. They are packed with games, and puzzles!
And this is where the Frame TV is! First we were going to put the TV over the fireplace, but decided more people could see the TV on this wall and also not make the TV the focal point. I put this bench underneath for extra seating when we all gather. I was so happy to have the extra seating it at Christmas time.
We hung these blue sconces on either side of the frame TV. I used the magic light trick in them!
Thanks for taking the basement tour! You can see more of the basement and our home HERE.
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  2. Lisa McCracken says

    Wow, so cozy and a wonderful ‘lived-in” vibe, yet so intentionally curated…love it so much!

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