Just curious how many basements people have...

VR3
VR3 Posts: 28,574
edited October 2007 in The Clubhouse
Never seen people sell so much stuff from their...

"Attic" "Closet" "Basement"

All my stuff is in my room. So if I sell anything else, I'll be sure to call it "The room"
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  • daboyz
    daboyz Posts: 5,207
    edited October 2007
    Basement doesn't faze me,I have a basement full of crud, it's the "bedroom rig" that I just haven't quite gotten used to..........
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited October 2007
    Most people have one.
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited October 2007
    Just curious how many basements people have...
    Most people have just one house, so I'm pretty sure most people will only have one basement. ;)
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  • shadowofnight
    shadowofnight Posts: 2,735
    edited October 2007
    RuSsMaN wrote: »
    Most people have one.


    Basements are extremely rare out here in the Bay area. We did have one in the house I grew up in , but in the past 20 or so years here in the Bay area...looking for homes to buy...family members..friends..co-workers...nobody has had one. I guess they are not as common out here anywhere I have been in Calif. I actually would love a house with one...it would be where I put the home theatre for sure.
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  • ESavinon
    ESavinon Posts: 3,066
    edited October 2007
    The house i live in has a basement and a sub basement.
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  • shadowofnight
    shadowofnight Posts: 2,735
    edited October 2007
    ESAVINON wrote: »
    The house i live in has a basement and a sub basement.


    Is the sub basement the same size as the basement ? That would be really cool for so many reasons. Home theatre on one....pool hall/darts/wet bar/2 channel audio system on the other. :D No noise from either reaching the outside world....
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  • BaggedLancer
    BaggedLancer Posts: 6,371
    edited October 2007
    I live in a basement, so when I say cleaning out my house, im really cleaning out the basement. :D

    My basement is a conservative 40'x40', with 2 walk in closets and plenty of kitchen cabinets. This allows me to store plenty believe me.
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  • george daniel
    george daniel Posts: 12,096
    edited October 2007
    no basement,,, but I do have a "crawl space",,that's why I pay to have the furnace filter changed,,,too many places for "creatures to lurk",, :D
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  • Gaara
    Gaara Posts: 2,415
    edited October 2007
    I've got it all.

    Gear I am not using gets boxed up and put in the basement.

    Some gear that I use but not that often (headphone rig) gets stored in the closet.

    The attic is for all of the packaging for gear that I currently use.

    My main HT is in my bedroom, the bed is hidden behind the loveseat.
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  • John in MA
    John in MA Posts: 1,010
    edited October 2007
    I don't have any audio gear in the basement any more, but I did have a few spare speakers and receivers before I sold them this spring. The listening/collection room can only hold so much.
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  • venomclan
    venomclan Posts: 2,467
    edited October 2007
    No basement here, pretty much the whole state. If I tried to dig a basement, it would become my "second pool" :)
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  • Mike682
    Mike682 Posts: 2,074
    edited October 2007
    Full basement here, mostly finished..
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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited October 2007
    Virtually every house here has a basement,but we don't have to worry about water and earthquakes.
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited October 2007
    shadowofnight wrote: »
    Basements are extremely rare out here in the Bay area. We did have one in the house I grew up in , but in the past 20 or so years here in the Bay area...looking for homes to buy...family members..friends..co-workers...nobody has had one. I guess they are not as common out here anywhere I have been in Calif. I actually would love a house with one...it would be where I put the home theatre for sure.

    They are rare in Texas also. My 'one' comment was laden with sarcasm in response to Trey's original post, as in 'the number of basements' people have.

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  • Serendipity
    Serendipity Posts: 6,975
    edited October 2007
    One.
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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited October 2007
    My Basement is full of Water :(



    Well it would be if I dug a hole for one, just 18" or so in some areas and there's water.

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  • shadowofnight
    shadowofnight Posts: 2,735
    edited October 2007
    RuSsMaN wrote: »
    They are rare in Texas also. My 'one' comment was laden with sarcasm in response to Trey's original post, as in 'the number of basements' people have.

    Cheers,
    Russ

    Oh yeah ... It would have been my response to him too...I felt the same sarcasm you did. :D Then ES mentioned he had TWO...I am envious of ONE...two would be awsome.
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  • Shizelbs
    Shizelbs Posts: 7,433
    edited October 2007
    audiobliss wrote: »
    Most people have just one house, so I'm pretty sure most people will only have one basement. ;)

    Thats what I was thinking.

    Sadly, I have no basement. I would kill to have more than just one small bedroom to hide in.
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  • dragon1952
    dragon1952 Posts: 4,899
    edited October 2007
    Just curious how many basements people have...

    I got 2....no 3....I mean 5. Yeah. Yeah, that's it. I got 5 basements.
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  • Ricardo
    Ricardo Posts: 10,636
    edited October 2007
    I have only one, with almost no storage space after I built the 2 channel room. So no place for extras.
    And if I ever find my basement full of water I will cry like a baby....which reminds me, I need to install that back-up sump pump.....
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,536
    edited October 2007
    I WISH I had a basement. I live in the "slab" zone---Arizona. The upside is that the acoustics are wonderful when your speakers sit on 10" of concrete slab; plus I have no vibration issues.
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  • AndyGwis
    AndyGwis Posts: 3,655
    edited October 2007
    Yeah, not many here in Texas. Everyone had them in Michigan where I lived previously.

    It would be nice to have one. Extra square footage to allow you to expand your liveable space as funds become available. Great way to add a nice HT to a home without kicking one of your children out of their bedroom.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,685
    edited October 2007
    Basements are common some places (e.g., mid-Atlantic and up here in New England) and rare elsewhere (e.g, California).

    I love my basement (Platonically, of course)! It is full of hi-fi junk, and the occasional mouse or snake (or predatory cat, after one of the aforementioned potential prey). It is a serious mess, but it's a cool kind of mess.

    EDIT: It tends to look sort of like this down there, thanks to the swap pile at our town dump.
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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 10,994
    edited October 2007
    Most houses around here have basements. I have a 2 part, half fully finished the other half is not.
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited October 2007
    I have only one basement.
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  • Bill Ayotte
    Bill Ayotte Posts: 1,860
    edited October 2007
    I have 11-teen.
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited October 2007
    Mine is split into three, finished, workshop, and a unfinished/oil burner/workout area.
    I've thought about moving all my equipment into the finished part of downstairs, but I find it depressing sitting in a basement, especially since the ceilings are low.
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  • Pauly
    Pauly Posts: 4,519
    edited October 2007
    In Fl. We raise the houses from the ground. LOL.

    And crack heads around the corner freebase but they dont look "mint" Does that count? LOL



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  • Polk addict
    Polk addict Posts: 558
    edited October 2007
    There are rarely basements in CA.
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  • joeparaski
    joeparaski Posts: 1,865
    edited October 2007
    Three-parter here...the main basement which is the HT room (of which half is my daughters' bedroom and computer workstation) then there is a storage room, which has access to the back of my gear, then there is the garage.

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