Welcome! In this section, these checklists are all about the bonus rooms and extra spaces we have in our homes. Plus it includes a checklist just for our pets.
Do you have a bonus area in your home? In the United States, a bonus room is an extra room in your house with no defined purpose, usually one without a closet. Having an extra room allows the homeowner to use the space in numerous ways. Some ideas that come to mind include an extra bedroom, a home office or library or study, a craft or hobby room, a playroom for kids, a home gym, a music room, a home theater, a man cave, a game room, a home studio (photography, for example).
Anyway, this section includes many of these spaces to jog your memory as respects items in these areas for your home inventory project; and it includes a list for our beloved pets. Here are the seven checklists included in this section:
42 Things Every Pet Parent has for their Fur Babies
42 Things in Your Craft and Hobby Room
42 Things in Your Bonus Room/Man Cave
42 Things in Your Attic and Basement
42 Home Gym Essentials & Equipment
42 Things in the Music Lover’s Home
42 Bar Accessories, Supplies, and Equipment for Your Home Bar
Here’s a tip: click here for the best value – The Complete Book of Lists: Room-by-Room Checklists for Your Household Inventory Project – $10.00 for all 75 lists!
This all-in-one book of 75 checklists not only includes the “bonus areas & extras,” but also incorporates these other parts of your home:
- Main Areas
- Bedrooms and Bathrooms
- Kitchen
- Laundry, Cleaning, and Storage
- Home Office
- Holiday
- Garage and Storage
- Garden and Outdoors
Each of these sections includes multiple home inventory checklists to help you with your project. You’ll have the complete set of home inventory templates at your disposal in one book for easy reference.
I’ve Come a Long Way in My Household Inventory Journey
We lost our home during a massive wildfire in 2007, known as the Witch Fire, and it took me nine months to complete a home inventory for our homeowner’s insurance claim. Working at night and on the weekend, I toiled tirelessly on this list with a single-minded purpose – to get paid by our insurance company for the loss that we had suffered.
These lists of 42 were born out of a mission to do another personal whole-house inventory project for our new home. Not wanting to be caught off guard again, should another catastrophic loss occur, I approached this second household inventory project from a proactive stance rather than a reactive task done after the fact due to a loss.
Several years later, I decided to share the personal progress of my own house inventory with my blog readers by creating what I call my “lists of 42.” These lists of 42 are checklists of different things in and around a house for home inventory purposes grouped together to total 42 in each space. Why 42 and not 50, 75, or 100? To “brand” the “4 Two” in the name of my blog, of course!
And by limiting the lists to 42 things, it breaks up an overwhelmingly huge project into manageable bites. By working your way through your home inventory room-by-room and space-by-space, using these home inventory worksheets as a roadmap, you will master the project in less time.