Sounds like you have made wonderful use of your basement! We still have one upstairs bedroom to remodel and then we’ll start on the basement. I can’t wait to get my food storage room all organized.
What kind of things does he store in the closets? Usually it’s us women that take over closets, with clothing. I admit to doing that. When we moved here I went from a new style house and a walk in closet to a 70s house with puny closets. So I have to rotate my summer and winter clothing, in and out of boxes.
I have a walk in closet. He cleans up and just stuffs any thing and everything into the closet. I have walnuts on top of cardboard in the upstairs dining room.
I just had him take the chainsaw out of the room with the weight machine. He said he wanted to leave it there temporarily—that was 3 weeks ago—On the bed downstairs he has a bunch of tools and equipment—drill, bits, nails, screws etc. It’s awful. If you have an empty space, he will fill it up, unless you actively move it—daily and hourly.