My husband who had AZ had a brain scan and the result was part of his brain had atrophied. It could never get better, that part of his brain was dead. Nothing helps Alzheimer patients. The meds they give them are all experimental, never been proven to help.

Ah! :) Then I suggest that you add small white shelves (stagger them on the wall) to the wall above the pub table -- and then add bits of large and small white coral to them! And then add a very large white seashell to your pretty mirrored table .... And perhaps add a vintage seaside travel poster to the wall to the left of the sectional ....

My vote is for BM Manchester Tan because I have it in my family room and I love it. To me it's the perfect neutral (and I am not a neutral kind of girl!). It sometimes leans gray, so I think it will coordinate nicely with the rest of your house. But, I have to say that I do not think it will matter if you paint down there, or just prime. By the time lookers get to the basement in your beautiful house, as long as it's clean and dry, it's not going to matter. They will be sold long before they get there!

Thanks for the advice - drywall is not an option right now with this timeframe...our son is in college and our daughter is a junior in high school so at this point, we won't be finishing the basement. We do have a bonus media/pool table room on the first floor so this is the usual teen hangout --it's just not big enough for dancing. I did buy some silver tarps and some beige drop cloths to see which one will work better. I was planning on stapling them to the floor joists above. There are some hvac ducts and pipes that we will have to work around so we would need to cut the material to fit around these. I was thinking of trimming this out with duct tape if we use the tarps and with patterned burlap ribbon if we use the drop cloths. Are we safe to have the tarps or fabric next to the hvac ducts? Found a cool large silver ornament that looks like a disco ball on sale at Hobby Lobby and bought 5 strings of white lights so far. The main problem is hiding the storage area. This post was edited by baseballmom94 on Tue, Dec 10, 13 at 11:27