We live in a villa type house built around 100 years ago. When you walk into the hall there are the stairs immediately to your left then a door to the cellar. I would assume it used to be used for coal storage.
You go down four steps to it then there is a small space where I keep my dryer. There is a small window.
It’s currently used for storing paint, suitcases etc as we have no garage (we have an attic but the hatch isn’t large enough for suitcases).
It’s so unpleasant down there I usually don’t go down there unless I have to. It’s been damp proofed and has a concrete floor. Things don’t seem to get damp down there but it’s full of spiders. I assume the spiders come in through the hole which hasn’t been blocked up.
Anyone know what I could do with it? We had a kitchen extension done a couple of years ago and I asked the builder then if I could have it converted to a bathroom and he said it would be really difficult with it being underground so i didn’t take it any further. We already have a family bathroom and a separate toilet upstairs so I’m not desperate for a third toilet.
I don’t know what sort of flooring we could put on the stairs if it was used as storage. Lino maybe. Photos attached anyway.