It appears that finishing the basement has never been a priority. Consequently, the one large room under the house serves a variety of functions. Near the stairs, the basement houses the heat pump and hydronic piping, the pressure tank for the water system, circuit breaker panel, a collection of brooms and mops, and a utility sink. An area farther back serves as an old junk storage area. An ancient cast iron claw-foot tub, a coat tree, a rusty bicycle with flat tires, a dressmaker's form, a small roll of ugly linoleum, a few rolled-up carpet remnants, and a runner-up in the "most hideous curtains in the world" contest are heaped together with two broken chairs. A few extra free-standing privacy screens have been placed around a plastic covered canopy bed in an out of the way corner for storage.
High efficiency LED light bulbs provide adequate lighting for navigating the basement, but no daylight manages to find its way down into the cool darkness. That might explain the old cold storage system along the back wall: a wine rack half-filled with dusty bottles, what appear to be vegetable storage bins, and the spring-fed trough through which icy spring water still flows.