Hard to tell exactly what you want to do. You might as well finish it. If your walls are straight you can put furring strips up with drywall and a drop ceiling. Probably the cheapest and an easier way to go.

Thank you all, I do like the Furnone's approach, -removable/lifting sections-, still need to figure out how to make sure that rain water drains properly and how to "nail" the sections to the concrete so they are not loose when walking/standing on it and at the same time making them easy to remove (usage of hingeÂ). dainaadele, nice idea to build it "upside down" screwing from the bottomÂ..for sure I will post pictures of the entire project, and also from my last one completed (trellis shade shelter). Again thanks for your ideasÂyou know sometimes we get lost when looking for ideas, even making them so harder/complicated loosing sight of easy/simple solutions, someone on another forum suggest me to tear out the entire concrete sidewalk , but it doesnÂt make sense to spend money there as its in a perfect condition, only 2 years old. I am just trying to add a nice touch to my patio.

I saw something like Panel Track on the Ikea web site. It was something that started with a K. I don't have an Ikea where I live, but there is one near my brother in Atlanta. I need to get some more information on the clearance/depth of the track. That window/door in the picture looks exactly like mine! Thanks, dilly. I see that Lowes also has the patio door blinds like HD (thanks, charlieinnj), so I might check them out this weekend. That is a bit more than I wanted to spend, but long term might be the best option. I haven't quizzed dh on his preference yet. Now that I have some options, I'll see what he thinks. With the pool table and wii we're getting the kids for Christmas, the basement may turn into the 'man cave'.

Good luck. I hope you find a solution. I do put one of my two cats downstairs but I physically caught him eating the insulation on multiple occasions so I obviously try not to do it for too long now but now that I am doing renovations upstairs and I am also doing partial renovations downstairs he's going to have to go there more often because I need to put him somewhere and there are other issues with other rooms. I guess I will just have to pull out all the insulation as I cannot do a drop ceiling (you will see in another long post that is one of the things the town has told me will make my basement "finished" and they will re-assess my taxes. I have no idea how much he ate before I realized what he was doing UGGHHH. I took in my ex-husband's cat almost 2 yrs ago when his house was destroyed by fire and the two cats hate each other even though I introduced very slowly and did everything by the book so it makes it more challenging trying to separate them and keep mine out of the basement (my house is NOT big). I guess it will just be easier to take down all the insulation but it's fairly old and nasty too so it won't be a very pleasant task.