Finishing Your Basement

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Finishing your basement could mean adding hundreds of square feet of living space to your home.

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Dave Lupberger on finishing a basement: Every year, people are proving that basements are more than just a place to put things you'll never use again. Hi, I'm David Lupberger with ServiceMagic.com... the nation's leading online source for homeowners looking for prescreened contractors. If you're tired of using one of the biggest rooms in your house for storage, then you should think of your basement as a blank canvas... ready for you to put the finishing touches on it.

Lupberger: Your junior high school yearbook... an old computer monitor that may or may not function... and an old gaming system that surprisingly does... all doing something you're not... spending time in a room that could be so much more than what it is. An empty basement is one of the most popular rooms in the house to finish or remodel. Transforming one into a dark area used for storage... into a usable living space could very well increase the value of your home... and will definitely add to your enjoyment of it.

Stacey Chapman/Homeowner: There was no way we were gonna have three kids without having a finished basement because otherwise the toys are everywhere.

Lupberger: Stacey Chapman and her family just finished their basement... and they already have a plan for it.

Stacey Chapman/Homeowner: This part over here is gonna be where we set up the TV. It will go along this wall and a tv watching area over there. And then this area will be a rec/play area. Right now it will just be all toys, but when the kids get older I'm sure it will be a ping-pong table or something like that over here.

Lupberger: Finishing a basement yourself means you can almost always build it to fit the needs of your family... It can be a spare bedroom, a poker room for the man of the house, or a TV room big enough for the whole family... and then some.

Brevan Adams/Accent Design Build: Most of our initial consults with the customers are involving most of the family because everybody's got a say on what's important to them to get into that space.

Lupberger: Brevan Adams from Denver's Accent Design Build is a prescreened ServiceMagic professional who says most of his clients come to him because they want to tap into their homes unused square footage.

Brevan Adams/Accent Design Build: They bring a lot of flexibility in terms of where the family can come together and do those kinds of family activities that they don't want to do any more in their living room or their dining room. It allows them to leave their stuff laid out, be a family, have some playroom and not have to clean it up so much at the end of the day... just close the door of the basement and it's done.

Stacey Chapman/Homeowner: It's really opening up the rest of the house to be more of a grown-up area because now we can set that up for adults and this can be the family/kid area, so it's a huge difference.

Lupberger: Finishing your basement can mean you're finally unlocking your home's full potential... It can also mean creating a great living space for you and your family. To find your next prescreened home service professional for your basement, or any other home improvement project - check out ServiceMagic.com. Home Improvement, Hassle-Free.