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Basement renovation: Stunner down under

Basement renovation: Stunner down under

A lack luster basement gets a chic update. Author: Ashley Capp

Basement

Basement renovation: Stunner down under

Who says basements have to be afterthoughts? Sure, they can be cold and lack light, but that didn’t hold back design blogger Christine Dovey. Here’s how she made her lowest level one of the top attractions in her home.

With two small children, a baby on the way and a teenager heading off to university, Christine Dovey had to do some serious shuffling last year to create a space in her Oakville, Ont., home that would work for the whole family. “I really needed an adult-friendly common area that could also offer storage for toys and serve as a crash pad for my eldest daughter, Natasha, when she’s home from school (and doesn’t want to see her mom before noon),” says the design blogger.

The only answer was the basement, a dark and dingy storage space-slash-makeshift playroom where “the kids would go, but no grown-up would ever spend time,” says Christine. The 1,000-square-foot basement had ancient wall-to-wall stained beige carpeting, a bathroom with a plastic shower and a laundry “hole” (as Christine puts it) concealed behind a curtain.

 “I wanted it to feel clean and glamorous, but still accessible; put together, but not stuffy. And thus our small flooring project snowballed into a full reno to create a basement that’s modern, urban and main-floor worthy.”

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Basement renovation: Stunner down under

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The 1,000-square-foot basement desperately required a makeover, with its ancient wall-to-wall stained beige carpeting and a bathroom with a plastic shower and a laundry “hole” (as Christine puts it) concealed behind a curtain.

Image by: Style at Home By: Rosemary Counter Source: Ashley Capp

 

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