Your Home Renovation Ideas

If your life is busy and growing, but your basement is empty, listless, and growing nothing but clutter, it's time to remodel your basement and tell it to “get a life.” An empty basement simply sits and cries out silently in the dark asking for a little home improvement. If you have a life and want to make your life a little more enjoyable, remodel your basement to create a place for living, creating, working, or just having fun. Even if you don't have unmet needs, you will find that your lifestyle can be deeply enriched with a basement remodeling project. And since any home improvement adds value to your home, it can help make you rich as well.

If you're remodeling to sell your home, rent a room, or if you have housing inspectors cruising the neighborhood, keep in mind that a basement that is remodeled to accommodate people must have at least 70 square feet of area, and must not measure less than 84 inches in each horizontal direction. This means you cannot put your mother-in-law to bed in an old small stone canning cellar. If you have a civilized basement size however, you can remodel your basement to accommodate an extra bedroom or two, or an extra bathroom (or two in the case of multiple teenage girls). You can even remodel an entire basement dwelling if you need a little extra income and are capable of building to a housing inspector's expectations.

Basements aren't just about the potential for extra bedrooms and bathrooms. Remodeling a basement is for a lifestyle improvement. Do you have a lot of guests over? Remodel for a bar or recreation room. Do you work from home? Remodel your basement for an office, a library or a research room. A basement can be remodeled for a woodworking shop, machine shop, gardening center or a painter's quiet den. A basement can be remodeled to fit your lifestyle, and reach a dream.

Remodel your basement and bring it to life. At the very least, you can remodel your basement to be an organized storage center instead of the black hole of random household boxes and broken appliances it may now very well be. Just look at the clutter (or the emptiness) and start to dream.