I love 'em too. We plotted the rest of our basement - fake wood floor with an area rug on top. Got supplies to try out various paint combos. And a half-wall along the side between our finished side and the laundry room side. It'll be extra wide, with an electric fireplace in the middle. Stone tiles around the fireplace for a hearth effect and then built in bookcases on either side. And it'll be wide enough to have a full counter edge, for a bar. We can put stools on the other side and have a great little social area, plus counter space.
Then we discussed things to do to our somewhat useless upper bathroom - it has a tub we never use but no shower. We could replace the sink with a smaller, washbowl style, replace the tub with a deep one with jets, maybe, and make it a really luxorious room. That's the third distant project most likely.
Our after-basement project is the kitchen so we discussed options for that... from the bare minimum to the add counterspace option. And then we even looked at patio furniture for the patio we might someday build.
We've been thinking about options for the countertops in the kitchen. We'd planned to do concrete, but since so many other things have popped up, that we didn't expect to have to do, we're looking for more time saving options, that are not also prohibitively expensive. We'd looked online at doityourselfgranite.com, but even that was more than we wanted to spend. We'd thought about granite tiles, but the ones we saw at Home Depot were only granite laminated onto a ceramic base; they weren't through and through granite, so we couldn't figure out a good edging plan for it.
I joined the DIY network online forum, and did a search for granite tile. One of the posters suggested The Tile Shop and mentioned that it sold granite tiles that were 24x24! That would cover the full depth of the counter, and require a LOT fewer grout lines. I checked it out, and they even sell countertop edgings to match! And they have the granite that I love, Juparana, but is in the most expensive level of granite, in slab form. All totalled, using the tiles would cost about half of what even the cheapest slab granite would cost. So I'm going to learn tiling by doing the kitchen floor, then we'll get to the countertop.