I have a thing about underground buildings and rooms.

Our (very) small backyard is on a hill, sloping down 30′ to the house. Something occurred to me today when I saw the below photo.

“Well, that looks like it could be in our backyard. It sure would be easy to pay someone to dig out the space. Then, I’d be very comfortable laying the masonry myself.”

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(Yes, this is exactly the type of thing I get myself into.)

These underground root cellars (and garages) built into hills are ubiquitous here in the Hudson Valley. No worries, though. I have forsworn longterm unnecessary house projects.

It seems like the sort of thing that could be done in less than a week, but we know how I am … it would take two years to decide, a year to plan, another year to actually start, and six months to finish.

I don’t need to pass into my retirement-age years with a half finished root cellar.