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Basement to Wine-celler/Rumpus room

Our house is a typical weatherboard 2 story house on a ridiculous hill in Hataitai. We have a downstairs 'basement' that the previous owners attempted to excavate, then had to be restrengthened because you cant just remove dirt from under a house and expect it to be OK. Anywho it is structurally sound, but just an ugly waste of space. Theres power down there, and previous tenants used it to grow weed, and we have used it as a gym. We want to convert it to a lined room to act as a spare room, with a loft bed, a wee window, and line and convert an area of it in to a wine celler with a locked door. This job isnt a contender for Grand Designs or House of the year award (and the less money i have to spend on making it look flash, the more i can spend on wine for the celler) but just the basics to turn this from hori in to somewhere i can hide from my kids, drink wine, and pass out. I drew up a sketch of what i envisioned it to look like. The red dots are the vantage points for the photos, so you can see just how huckery it looks.