And now... what you've all been waiting for..

 BASEMENT BEFORE:

(Sponge painted in 3 colors, Ryan patched the nail holes and textured where the door way was added.)

 My Tally  the artist. Not only did she help paint, but she painted beautiful pictures!

 I was so sad to paint over this!

 BASEMENT AFTER:

We painted 3 of the walls brown and  added the green curtains.  It's still a little messy because we haven't hung the pictures. We also moved the furniture around to get things away from the "mural" as I call it.

 Isn't Ryan fabulous! It's all hand painted.. He even drew the circles.