3 Changes That Will Help You Add Space to Your Basement

These are three changes that can do the trick:

1. Basement Underpinning

If you literally want to add more space to your basement, you should consider underpinning it. This is a major home improvement that will lower the bottom floor, increasing the height of the basement-level rooms.

Basement underpinning is a multi-step job that involves contractors digging out the floor underneath your basement, pouring in new concrete and installing underpins — these add strength and integrity to your home’s structure.

Then, the contractors excavate the soil around the foundation to augment the overall height.

Does this sound exciting? Find out how you can arrange for basement underpinning this year so that you can increase the size of your basement without putting your home’s structure at risk. You’ll be wowed by the difference.

2. Decluttering

If you’re using your basement as a junk storage facility, it’s going to feel cramped and cluttered beyond all reason. You have boxes covering the floor.

There is a cluster of gym equipment sitting untouched in the corner. There are piles of gardening tools, seasonal clothes, holiday decorations and broken knick-knacks everywhere. It’s a disaster.

Giving your basement a deep clean and eliminating the clutter will help you uncover a lot of space. You might be surprised about how big the area is when it’s tidied up.

How do you get this done? If you’re not sure how to get started on your junk purge, look to the organizational experts for advice.

Famous home organizer Marie Kondo recommends that you only keep items that “spark joy.” So, something that’s unnecessary and that doesn’t make you happy needs to go in the donation pile or in the garbage.

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Or you can follow The Minimalists’ 90/90 rule which asks you to ditch items that you haven’t used in the previous 90 days and that you’re not sure you will use in the next 90 days.

Obviously, this doesn’t apply to important seasonal items like winter coats or beach towels. It’s meant to stop old, dusty and untouched items from taking up precious real estate in your basement.

3. Using Vertical Storage

You can increase your floorspace by utilizing vertical storage. Only your essential furniture should be sitting on the floor. Everything else can be moved against the walls.

These are some ways that you could implement vertical storage in your basement:

• Hang up pegboards to organize workshop tools.
• Use coatracks and hooks to hang up coats, bags and other accessories.
• Hang fabric shoe organizers off of doors.
• Put up floating shelves to organize books, family albums and hobby collections.
• Frame and hang posters, records and artwork on the walls.

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With all of your stuff pushed up against the walls, your basement will feel so much bigger and brighter than before.

You don’t have to live with a cramped basement forever. These three changes could give you the space that you’re looking for.

Image credit: add space to your basement by twenty20.com

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