Well I immediately said absolutely not!
The last thing I wanted was 9 guys destroying my little house. Where were they all supposed to sleep, eat, and shower. I would say the maximum capacity of our house is 6 people and there is not really room to entertain. We have one guest bedroom with a little double bed and 1 shower...for 9!! Really, this just sounded like a recipe for disaster.
After I accepted the fact that I do share this house with my husband and I did have 4 friends over the previous weekend it was only fair that he be allowed 4 this weekend :) Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way. He couldn't just uninvite his friends. So it was time to get creative!
My mom came down to visit and we decided to make a "man cave" for the guys in the basement. At one point our basement was finished so there is paneling on the walls, there is a half bath and cement floor. Perfect! They could play their drinking games and go to the bathroom down there! As far as I was concerned they would never have a reason to come upstairs...
The biggest problem us that the basement was a complete disaster with junk everywhere! We have been trying to put new ceiling tiles in so we had all the old and scraps of new ones covering the floor. Plus all the other junk basements seem to accumulate. We also wanted to put a little carpet down there to make the space more inviting. So we got to work!
Of course I only thought to take a picture after we were halfway through cleaning...
Lots of vacuuming and dusting!
Nasty floors!Laying carpet with Hudson and Cooper helping of course
We had lots of obstacles to cut around: The pole in the center of the room, a small closet, and two small sticky outy parts of the wall. Turns out we are pretty good at laying carpet :)
Not too shabby right!?
We used Steve's hockey sticks for decoration :) Also, very thankful for all the folding chairs and lawn shairs we got as wedding gifts. Perfect furniture for the man cave!
This is the other half of the room where they were able to set up beer pong on a hunk of wood they found in the garage.After doing all of this I told the boys my house better be clean when they left and I took off to Holland. I think it was better that way. They had all the fun they wanted without me hovering or being mad about the house. I was very pleased to come home on Sunday night to a perfectly clean house.
Thanks boys!
