Basement Full Remodel

Here is a full basement remodel. The space was very awkward and not useful. It was two small rooms that didn’t seem to have a specific use. The room that had the fireplace didn’t orient in a specific way and made for a strange walk through to the other room. The second room that has a very small attached bathroom, was not really big enough for a bedroom and kind of strange to be used as a closet or an office. Not to mention the terrible bead board plywood on the walls and terrible paint in the bathroom.

What the job entailed was a full gut and total rework to make it a genuinely functional space. This was achieved by removing the fire place. It would have been nice to keep but was in a weird place, so we got rid of it. Next came getting rid of the dividing wall. It was built very wrong and for a wall that should have been holding up the floor above it that stressed me out. Thankfully it’s actually a pretty short span so a couple of temporary walls to hold while we took it out and a massive new girder put in and we were able to greatly strengthen the space and open it up at the same time.

Next to make make that space useful we built a new dividing wall creating a new master bedroom and what will be an office space. And as you always need, a closet on the new wall. The room was too big for it to be just one room. The whole house is only 1300 square feet so there is no need to have a 500 square foot room (total guess I don’t actually remember the size of the total basement). After getting that framed wired and drywalled it came time to start on the bathroom. This involved getting rid of the hot water heater (installing a tankless one elsewhere) knocking out a wall to double the size of the bathroom and moving all sorts of stuff around. It turned out great though. Having a shower with two heads and plenty of space for two people was a great change from a bathroom that barely fit a single person before.

The tile work took a while but turned out great, and the engineered hardwood floors throughout the rest of the basement look fantastic. Overall the whole basement became much more useable and created a great master suite that the house was lacking. The office built in will be done when there is some free budget in the mean time it has a desk table and some other things. Hope you enjoy the pictures of this little remodel. The last two are the finished look of the bedroom with the bed and one of the dogs posing beautifully. I didn’t even ask her to do that. The bed and side tables you can see better photos of by checking out Hidden Mountain Woodworks.