A basement is usually the last part of a house to get any real attention. It holds the furnace, the boxes nobody has opened in years, and a washing machine that gets visited twice a week. Yet it often represents a third of the total floor area of the home, sitting there unused while the family upstairs runs short of ...

Not many people pay attention while constructing their basements, because it mostly houses utilitarian aspects of the house like wiring or the plumbing and isn’t considered to be a place for social activity, recreation and general living. But when you begin to understand the value of such a space, and start to put some intentionality into the design, you can ...