Bizarrely, this is just not that unusual in Colorado. Really.
At my husband's company they had to fire the head of HR years ago, because he had formed a church in his basement, and was having the head of charitable endeavors regularly cut checks to his church without mentioning that it was the Church of This Dude's Basement.
Also, since he was the head of HR, he'd managed to have all of his deacons hired as in management positions.
And that? Is not even his house.
Cute house, really, except for how there's a cult in the basement.
My parents are thinking about retiring, and are planning to build their own mini-movie theater in their house. I joked that they could charge admission, but I think this basement church might be an even better idea.
The pastor must be very short to be able to make his grand entrance through that door...
August 8, 2009 at 2:57 PM
burhanistan said...
A tithe a day keeps our creditors away.
Also, I was trying to devise an acronym using the words Colorado, Home, Underground, Ministry, and Program but it just didn't seem to gel into a pronounceable word...
I love how not only do we get to see the basement as a chapel but then we see it set up as a normal family room. Makes me wonder if they switch the basement every Sunday then switch it back again.
August 10, 2009 at 6:53 AM
Anonymous said...
This, it should be noted, is Colorado. They're usually busy in that secret underground lair, uh, rec room devising new ways to Focus on Your Family, and that can't wait for Sunday!
August 10, 2009 at 7:16 AM
Anonymous said...
if you look at all the pictures, they have the chapel revamped into a "Recreation Room" its the same room only redone, so they staged it to your liking...
I can't get last night's episode of True Blood out of my head.
This basement isn't helping any.
August 10, 2009 at 12:35 PM
Neal Snow said...
This may seem funny to some, but I was unfortunate enough to have grown up in a household where my dad turned the basement into a worship service room.
During my last year of high school, dad had it out with some of the other members at the church we attended. Being a disagreeable sort who always had to have his way, he turned our formerly kick ass library room into a sunday worship room, complete with homemade pulpit. Dad sat on a highchair behind the pulpit so he could look down at the family and bark his version of the Bible text at the family.
Seems funny, doesn't it? Try living it. It was hell.
As soon as I graduated high school, I enlisted into the slightly less insane USAF. At least there I had the freedom of religion.
August 10, 2009 at 2:39 PM
bitbot said...
Well I think it's hardly Christian presenting the basement and the 'Recreation Room' as if they are two different rooms!
Unless there's some excellent revolving-wall type setup where one turns into the other: "No, officer, no worship going on here, we were merely recreating..."
or alternately, "No officeer, no recreation going on here, we were merely worshipping..."
August 10, 2009 at 3:58 PM
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Things I have had in basements of various house I've lived in:
a woodshop
a motorcycle
an enormous tank of heating oil
a man building guitar amps out of coffee cans
a recording studio
a magazine's office
a washer and dryer (booo, boring, booo)
a flood
Things I had not previously considered having:
a chapel
(Found by Erin.)
"The chairs GATHER toGETHER..."
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I want to lie down on all that blue carpet and pretend to swim!
August 8, 2009 at 7:38 AM
No.....they're all gonna laugh at you!
August 8, 2009 at 7:48 AM
Are those … boxes of tissues under the chairs? Not only is it a chapel in a basement, but one prepared for a room full of weeping attendees.
Don't drink the Kool-Ade, guys! Don't drink it!
August 8, 2009 at 7:55 AM
I wonder how many people from the church would just keep showing up at your house all the time! So weird
August 8, 2009 at 8:55 AM
This is in the same category as the one with the stage and pole in the basement. I'm not sure what category that is. I should make that clear.
Roidy
August 8, 2009 at 10:25 AM
so they have 2 master bathrooms (I'm impressed!) and I think they changed their chapel into a "recreational room" in the later photos...
August 8, 2009 at 11:46 AM
Bizarrely, this is just not that unusual in Colorado. Really.
At my husband's company they had to fire the head of HR years ago, because he had formed a church in his basement, and was having the head of charitable endeavors regularly cut checks to his church without mentioning that it was the Church of This Dude's Basement.
Also, since he was the head of HR, he'd managed to have all of his deacons hired as in management positions.
And that? Is not even his house.
Cute house, really, except for how there's a cult in the basement.
August 8, 2009 at 12:11 PM
That's funny, Karasu... all the tissues! Maybe it's a funeral home.
August 8, 2009 at 1:31 PM
My parents are thinking about retiring, and are planning to build their own mini-movie theater in their house. I joked that they could charge admission, but I think this basement church might be an even better idea.
August 8, 2009 at 1:53 PM
The pastor must be very short to be able to make his grand entrance through that door...
August 8, 2009 at 2:57 PM
A tithe a day keeps our creditors away.
Also, I was trying to devise an acronym using the words Colorado, Home, Underground, Ministry, and Program but it just didn't seem to gel into a pronounceable word...
August 8, 2009 at 2:59 PM
It seems as though there are 4 separate bathrooms??
August 8, 2009 at 10:33 PM
I would never have considered a chapel in the basement but it seems like a good way to generate income.
Come, Parishioners, one and all ... (my bills are due)
August 9, 2009 at 10:41 AM
Must be hard to get the goat's blood out of blue carpeting.
August 9, 2009 at 10:45 AM
I actually really dig this house, even if I'd feel slightly guilty for turning what appears to be an AA meeting room into a bar.
August 9, 2009 at 4:03 PM
Okay...for some reason I keep thinking of the Baby Savers from Citizen Ruth...
August 9, 2009 at 4:55 PM
I wonder if there are any tax breaks for that?
August 9, 2009 at 10:30 PM
I love how not only do we get to see the basement as a chapel but then we see it set up as a normal family room. Makes me wonder if they switch the basement every Sunday then switch it back again.
August 10, 2009 at 6:53 AM
This, it should be noted, is Colorado. They're usually busy in that secret underground lair, uh, rec room devising new ways to Focus on Your Family, and that can't wait for Sunday!
August 10, 2009 at 7:16 AM
if you look at all the pictures, they have the chapel revamped into a "Recreation Room" its the same room only redone, so they staged it to your liking...
August 10, 2009 at 11:33 AM
I can't get last night's episode of True Blood out of my head.
This basement isn't helping any.
August 10, 2009 at 12:35 PM
This may seem funny to some, but I was unfortunate enough to have grown up in a household where my dad turned the basement into a worship service room.
During my last year of high school, dad had it out with some of the other members at the church we attended. Being a disagreeable sort who always had to have his way, he turned our formerly kick ass library room into a sunday worship room, complete with homemade pulpit. Dad sat on a highchair behind the pulpit so he could look down at the family and bark his version of the Bible text at the family.
Seems funny, doesn't it? Try living it. It was hell.
As soon as I graduated high school, I enlisted into the slightly less insane USAF. At least there I had the freedom of religion.
August 10, 2009 at 2:39 PM
Well I think it's hardly Christian presenting the basement and the 'Recreation Room' as if they are two different rooms!
Unless there's some excellent revolving-wall type setup where one turns into the other:
"No, officer, no worship going on here, we were merely recreating..."
or alternately,
"No officeer, no recreation going on here, we were merely worshipping..."
August 10, 2009 at 3:58 PM