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Basements

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Unique Tile

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Stair design

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Wine bar with pass thru to family room

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Concrete tile 4 colors Emser Erosion

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Under the stairs

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Laura Gaskill
Laura Gaskill

Your Clutter-Clearing Plan for the New Year

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Stair rails and under stairs

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Bench in low under stairs area

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Stair rail + stairs

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LEGO storage

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Bookshelves + stairs

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Angled stair rails

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Clever arrangement

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Love this painting and plant.

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Like the whole desk and the designer picture.

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Dal tile is the floor tile. Creative use of hiding supports and then a plus put the tv on it. Wood strips make it eye appealing.

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Stairway from basement to back yard

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Walk out for basement

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Wood slats

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Stairs with storage

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Great stairs

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Lighted stairs

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Black metal

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Clear glass instead of iron rails

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Similar

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Skylight above the stairwell. Striking wood stairs ascend to the loft, where the ceiling was raised to make way for a multipurpose room.

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Such a classy wet bar love the sparkle

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Hidden drawers

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Beautiful tile + bar

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Cabinet & shelf nook

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Nook bar corner

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Fred Press

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Roll out bar storage shelves

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Great idea for a bookshelf bar

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Basement bar

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Basement next to stairs bar

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Walnut bar & marble

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Bar area

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Backlit

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Basement bar!

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Under the stairs bar

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Wood tv credenzas

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Long storage and tv over

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Base stairs open

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Glass enclosed stairs

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Music room

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Simple room and the album wall is great

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Perfect for that tiny room. Put on some kind of doors or a hidden wall.

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Music

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The layout is similar

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Love the color and layout

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The high table behind the sectional great idea with a pool table

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8. Reduce noise. Your newly finished basement has the potential to affect the rest of your house with noise, particularly if you create a media or play room. Installing sound insulation into the basement ceiling can help. Higuera also suggests using RC channel, which is a long piece of metal shaped like a hat when viewed from the end. Without a sound break, sound travels through the wood right into the drywall. The RC channel is installed across the joists before the drywall. When it’s time for the drywall to be attached, it rests on the RC channel instead of the wood joists, reducing noise transmission. Another option? Surface-mount lights versus can lights. “Can lights tend to carry noise, so use surface-mount lights if your ceiling is high enough,” Higuera says.

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Pizazz gray shimmer by Daltile cool basement 12 x 24

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Nice basement configuration

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7 rooms! The staircase is original and required only refinishing the treads and a coat of fresh white paint. But what the stairs led to underwent a major transformation. Formerly, the lower level was “a totally unfinished basement. I mean totally,” Peggi says. Now it is a spacious daylight basement with a family room, a guest bedroom, two kids’ bedrooms, a laundry, a full bath and a playroom.

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Split level plan lower

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Split level plan upper

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Perfect plan of what to go for. Here is a plan to give you an idea of how things are laid out.

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