Best Basement Ideas

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The first thing you have to do is define the space. Read the following to get you started.

• Be brave and say what the space should be for. Maybe you can’t articulate it in words, but say it by expressing what you want the space for. Don’t go for superficiality, and take time making your decision. The right decision could have glorious results. The wrong decision could be a waste of your money if it doesn’t measure up to your requirements.
• Use your small basement as a hospitality room. As it is not large you have to think carefully how you will furnish it. It is not a grand dwelling, but also not an unreasonable size; you can still create something wonderful.
• If you want to convert it to a guest room for your mother’s yearly visit, you can dress up this simple room with an earthen pot and green shrubby plants and an array of framed photographs on the small dresser. Don’t use this space for a large clumsy refrigerator. A bed, a dresser, an earthen pot and the grand children’s photographs is just right.
• If you love music and movies you can convert this basement space to a home theater or entertainment room where the whole family can entertain themselves. Children who spend time with their parents having fun, have healthy attitudes and are much more likely to be easier to deal with. Have a plasma tv on the wall, and two comfortable couches. Leave this space open and without doors.
• If you are Muslim or Hindu or Buddhist, you may wish to retreat to a prayer room where you are away from the noise of the family to do your devotions. It may be nothing more than sitting quietly, thinking, or meditating.
• A hobby room is also an idea, where kids can play Scrabble or chess, or do jigsaw puzzles, or any other board game they wish to play.
• If you like sewing and making clothes for the kids, this is an ideal room for your sewing machine and a trestle table where you can cut patterns. If you are sewing and designing dresses for people, you will have a little place downstairs where they can come for their fittings.

A home office or a study room is a great idea if you have a small business and need to do your work on a computer and write invoices and make calls. This is also a place where a child can come to find peace and quiet to concentrate on his studies. Arrange green and blue-purple color lights which improve mental concentration without causing eye strain.