ATTICS AND BASEMENTS
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Attic and basement improvement main focus:
- Change basement to rec. room
- Finish basement
- Repair flooding damage
- Make handicap accessible
- Update old features
- Enlarge area
- Rearrange layout
- Waterproofing
Addition or remodel features that can be done by construction and renovation experts:
- Bath
- Ceiling
- Countertops
- Doors
- Electrical Wiring
- Faucets and Fixture Accessories
- Fireplace/Woodstove
- Flooring/Carpeting
- Lightning
- Shower
- Sinks
- Tile
- Toilet
- Walls
- Windows
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Attics and basements can be the ideal space for a remodeling project. Many households want to incorporate a game room, entertaining area, or even an apartment for a college age student into their current home. An attic or basement can provide such an area, usually more inexpensively than adding onto the home. With a home addition, you will need a new foundation and a new roof. An attic or basement is already within the foundation and roofing of your current home, so up-fitting the interior is typically all that is needed. An attic remodeling will typically involve closing in an area between beams and rafters. You will need a permanent staircase to the lower level. Generally, a contractor can pull off or your existing plumbing, electricity, heating and cooling for renovating the attic. The same can be true for a basement, usually with less work involved. Basements already have the four perimeter walls, and some feature roughed in areas that are load bearing walls. If you are remodeling your entire basement you may have room for a media room, game room, exercise room, kitchenette, bathroom and even bedroom. This is a perfect layout for an apartment or gathering area for your children and their friends.
Life Below Ground
Once the domain of spiders, old wallboard, forgotten trophies, banners and an unused wet bar the basement living area is bouncing back with a vengeance not seen since the shag carpet was put down in 1974. The bar has been freshened up, but better yet, this misused area is now going through a rebirth.
Remodeling designers are now treating the secondary space with the respect and decency that used to be handed out to bathrooms and kitchen areas. New lighting techniques have made the subterranean room a reclaimed space where everyone in the family can meet their recreational and entertainment needs.
Why is this area being rejuvenated? There are two words: bonus space. The basement is space in the home that is already there. You don't have to tear out the back wall and go into the yard ten feet or rip off the roof and go up for a new and large living space.
The ideas for this area are endless. Traditional uses are still in vogue: entertainment areas, game rooms, hobby room, home theater, basement apartment and family room. There are also the newer and more diverse ideas for the basement renovation: guest room with ensuite, gymnasium, home office and spa.
But get ready for the newest uses: nightclub with dance floors, dark room, sound studio, huge clothes closet areas for storing off-season apparel, wine room and gardening rooms with attached greenhouse. People who are into sports ports are putting in climbing walls, basement bowling alleys and even firing ranges.
So next time you are down in the cellar let your mind wander.
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