Expand your living space with a great finished basement

If you are finding yourself pressed for space, you may be considering a finished basement space. You can take it from a dank, dark area that nobody wants to be in to a rec room, perfect for entertaining family and friends. This can be done instead of making an addition to the house if you find you are expecting another child or a mother in law.

If you`re interested in finishing off your basement, this could be the most important message you will ever read.

Thousands of families have successfully completed basement home remodeling projects and the number grows larger every year. Now`s the time to get started!

The problem is a universal one for, sad to say, most families are bursting out of their dwellings. Like never before, we now have the time and money for elaborate part time activities. All sorts of hobbies are booming. The paraphernalia that goes with them is starting to engulf us. When you add on the inevitable accumulation of odds and ends that seems to build up almost magically, half the households in this nation are about to explode through the front door.

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Before you go hog wild at the lumber yard, take the time to do a decent job of planning the basement remodeling. Not only will you be able to lop a fat hunk of cash off the material bill, but you`ll wind up with a far nicer looking job. Like any big business enterprise, break the planning up into several stages, from dreams to decisions.

 

First, gather the entire family together and think big. Spare no expense, time or labor in your preliminary dreaming. Unleash your imagination, forget about money restrictions. Include all the various ideas that you have collected from friend’s homes, the basement clips that you’ve saved from magazines, the ideas you’ve dreamed about.

 

This freewheeling gambit serves a practical purpose. To an amazing degree many of these wild dreams can actually be included in the finished basement job. Scaled down or changed they may be, but the central idea and the satisfaction will remain.

When you have gathered together this mass of notes, clippings, sketches and ideas, shift your imagination into lower gear. Now is the time to decide exactly what purpose the basement space will serve. If a portion of the room will be turned into a storage area, there`s no need for elaborate preparations, lighting, finishes, etc. All you really want here is dry, usable space. If part of the area will be a laundry, then you want better light, proper floor drainage, a nicer finish on the walls and simple but sturdy cabinets and counters.

And now get down to the hard core planning. Scale down your ideas to fit family financing and available space. At the same time, make sure your ideas can be carried out without too much trouble and expense.

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