Basement Ideas that Work: Creative Design Solutions for your Home

by Peter Jeswald

How do you turn your basement into the place to be? You transform it from a cramped, musty space to terrific rooms your family members will want to be in. No more dreaded trips to put in a load of laundry in a dark, dank locale or retrieve something from gloomy, cavernous storage. Instead, you'll enter a warm, welcome family room, a cozy home office, or a slick gym.

For the motivation to pull these basement renovations off, look to Basement Ideas That Work . Filled with practical and budget-friendly advice, Basement Ideas That Work not only helps you to get more enjoyment from your home, but increases its value in a single leap -- a finished basement reportedly earns an average of 90% of its remodeling cost back at resale.

184 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2007

Reviews

[Brianna · Rating 2 out of 5]

Outdated but for structural stuff it's still worth a browse and consideration.

[Sean Camoni · Rating 2 out of 5]

For a book written in 2007, the photos are pretty dated. Some good ideas, raises some good food for thought when planning a basement remodel, but not nearly as useful as it could be. The pictures are all staged "better homes & gardens" type shots, so the rooms look perfect, but don't help all that much to see what it would really be like to live with those rooms in my house. And some of these just don't look like basements, they're lower levels of palaces. There doesn't seem to be a ceiling under 9 feet high in any of these rooms. Got some ideas about how to deal with beams and posts, but not much practical value here.

[kougra_27 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some great ideas in here that we plan to incorporate into our own basement remodel. Lots of pictures :)