Basement Remodel Insights
With proper imagination and planning, you can transform your basement from a dark, underutilized storage area to nearly any type of additional living space you can imagine.
Consider the following:
- Altering your basement for hobbies, crafts and other specialized interests will give your home a whole new dimension
- Converting your basement into a game room or kids play room
- Adding mats, mirrors and workout equipment creates your own fitness room
- Installing a bar or additional kitchen for entertaining in your basement is more and more popular among homeowners and adding music can turn the space into your own private club
- Create a home office or library in your basement where you will be guaranteed peace and quiet
- If your basement has exposure to daylight, you can easily create another living room or guestroom
- A fireplace in your basement can be an addition that will enhance your individual living area
- For wine lovers and collectors, the basement has always been a perfect spot for a wine cellar
- An oversized tub or sauna can create a spa-like atmosphere in your basement.
- With limited light access, basements are an ideal place to establish a home theatre, adding a new dimension to your home. A professional home theatre installer can help provide the guidance needed to prevent unnecessary frustration and costs.
Basement Flooring Ideas:
Decorative Concrete
Decorative concrete has been very popular over the past few years. Once only found in high-end homes, decorative concrete has found its way into many basements.
Heated floors
Radiant heated floors can transform your basement to a warm, comfortable space for your family and also reduce moisture.
Free Floating Engineered Flooring
Engineered flooring is ideal for basements, because it floats on top of a foam underlayment that is first placed on the basement floor. The foam underlayment helps to mitigate unevenness in the basement floor and also helps to reduce sound. The engineered flooring floats on this underlayment and can effectively breathe with changes in the basement’s moisture levels.
