A lot of time, when people are decorating their homes, the basement is a forgotten left over.  This is a shame because it is often one of the larger rooms and a house.  More often than not it is left to its utilitarian purpose without any kind of thought put into its decorating scheme.  Personally, it is one of those projects that I have chosen to put off repeatedly.  I don’t know why.  It just sort of happens as other things come up one after another.

If people were to take the time to make the very most of that space, it could still be functional but also an area to be proud of when people come to visit.  Depending on your individual circumstances, you may or may not need a lot of work done.  I know that in my circumstance, I have been thinking about doing some light remodeling, with a major portion of the work being the floor.  We have been considering strand woven bamboo flooring for our upstairs, because we like the way it looks and its durability, but in our basement, we are not sure what we will do yet.

Our overall goal is to make a full conversion into a game room, but there is the problem of forcing ourselves to not use the basement as a storage area.  It could definitely be worse.  Our first house was most definitely much more of a fixer-upper.  Absolutely nothing had ever been done to make the basement anything like an entertainment area and we had moisture issues until we spent over four thousand dollars getting things fixed so that we could sell the house.  Live and learn.  I would never purchase a home with known water issues again.  Fighting the mildew is a losing battle until you break down and pay to get things fixed.  It is definitely not recommended by me.