https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:38:33 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-basement-finished-1#post-1113123 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 11:07:32 +0000 PurplePeony 1113123@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ABCmrs: @looch: It is interesting! Here in the northwest, they call the style of house we all have a "rambler with walkout basement" (or usually just a rambler because almost all of them around here have basements). I don't remember seeing any split-levels when we were looking at houses so I don't know if there's a different term for them...I don't think they're very common here! The other one that confuses me is "duplex" -- where I'm from, a duplex is stacked units and a twin is side-by-side units, but elsewhere it seems people call any 2-unit home a duplex, regardless of configuration. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-basement-finished-1#post-1113004 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:47:16 +0000 looch 1113004@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ABCmrs: me neither! It's really interesting, isn't it!</p> <p>I am in the Northeast. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-basement-finished-1#post-1113002 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:46:45 +0000 HeartAbandoned 1113002@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@looch: Perhaps that's what I call a "tri-level" - not three full stories, one-on-top-of-the-other, but three distinct levels. I have never really thought about the terminology being different in different parts of the country! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-basement-finished-1#post-1112999 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:46:17 +0000 artsyfartsy 1112999@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We don't have a basement! Unless you count the dirty crawl space where we store the lawn mower a basement. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-basement-finished-1#post-1112992 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:44:35 +0000 yellowbird 1112992@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ours is fully finished with a full bath, but we never go down there. We haven't bought any furniture for it yet! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-basement-finished-1#post-1112990 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:44:29 +0000 HeartAbandoned 1112990@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@PurplePeony: Yep - sounds almost exactly the same! Our bath down there is just a half bath, though. It gets pretty cold in our basement, too, so we sometimes will take a space heater down there to watch movies in the winter (that's where our only TV is). We are sure to unplug it when we're done, though :happy: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-basement-finished-1#post-1112989 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:43:59 +0000 looch 1112989@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ABCmrs: Split is defined differently where I live, that's where you kind of have three levels, a main and a second that is on top of the lower level, if that makes any sense! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-basement-finished-1#post-1112978 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:42:44 +0000 HeartAbandoned 1112978@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@looch: There are steps (just 6 or 8) going up to the front door, but once you walk inside, there are only steps down to the basement. Our basement is a walkout, but our laundry room is pretty much completely underground based on the way our lot slopes. </p> <p>I think I usually call a house like yours a split level, where you have to either walk up or down once you come in the front door. I'm from TN, so maybe it's a regional term? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-basement-finished-1#post-1112970 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:41:40 +0000 PurplePeony 1112970@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ABCmrs: this sounds exactly like ours, down to your description of the rooms! We also have a 3/4 bath down there. The only problem with ours is that there's really no insulation, so it gets drafty on the exposed side (the front is built into a hill but the back looks/walks out onto our backyard). So we tend not to spend a lot of time down there once it gets cold out. We'll fix it someday but we have other priorities first. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-basement-finished-1#post-1112958 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:39:13 +0000 looch 1112958@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ABCmrs: It must be very similar, I had to google it!</p> <p>When you enter your home through the front door, are there steps going up to the main level and down into the play area? That is how ours is and I don't consider the play area a basement, because it's walk out. The house is built on a slab. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-basement-finished-1#post-1112947 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:37:16 +0000 HeartAbandoned 1112947@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@looch: I'm not sure! I'm not familiar with a raised rancher, but it may be the same thing! I've always thought of a basement rancher as having the majority of the living space (bedrooms, kitchen) upstairs, and extra space downstairs, but not completely underground. Our basement is sort of half-underground, because our lot slopes sort of from the front left corner to the back right corner. You can walk out of the back of our basement onto a patio, but the front of the basement is underground. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-basement-finished-1#post-1112934 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:33:40 +0000 looch 1112934@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ABCmrs: is it similar to a raised ranch? I have never heard of basement rancher, but it seems similar to a raised ranch, like we have. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-basement-finished-1#post-1112922 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:31:03 +0000 HeartAbandoned 1112922@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our house is a "basement rancher" so yes - and we love it! Our garage is down there, as is the laundry room, a big great room, and "the music room". Not a lot going on down there, but it does double the square footage of our house. And it's always way cooler down there in the summer, so it's a great place to hang out! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-basement-finished-1#post-1112824 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:11:54 +0000 yin 1112824@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not finished and don't plan on finishing it until we need the space. I just worry about the possible issues that come along with a finished basement. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-basement-finished-1#post-1112781 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:04:22 +0000 littlek 1112781@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrsjyw: Yay!!!</p> <p>Our basement is 90% complete. We have one area we use as storage which we are planning on splitting in half. So, half will be a workout room and the other half will be storage. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-basement-finished-1#post-1112771 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:00:54 +0000 looch 1112771@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our current house is on a slab, but a finished basement is low on my priority list, like not even on it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-basement-finished-1#post-1112760 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 09:59:05 +0000 Sunshine1810 1112760@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No, but we hope to finish it off someday. It won't be for a while though! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-basement-finished-1#post-1112756 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 09:58:13 +0000 BabyBoecksMom 1112756@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No basement... I wish we had one so we had *somewhere* to store stuff </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-basement-finished-1#post-1112646 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 09:32:53 +0000 lemondrop 1112646@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Basements are rare in Arizona, we've never had one. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-basement-finished-1#post-1112617 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 09:29:09 +0000 heartonastring 1112617@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope, but we're planning to finish it sometime within the next 8-12 months. I am so pumped for the extra space..we need it so badly now that DD is here. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-basement-finished-1#post-1112606 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 09:27:07 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 1112606@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We don't have a basement. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-basement-finished-1#post-1112600 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 09:26:17 +0000 CottonCandy 1112600@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@blackbird: Ahh not tooo bad then! Thanks :happy: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-basement-finished-1#post-1112572 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 09:22:25 +0000 blackbird 1112572@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@cottoncandy, it's not too bad depending on how big it is. 10-20K? But that's from a rough-in </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-basement-finished-1#post-1112548 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 09:19:01 +0000 doodlepoodle 1112548@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@swurlygurl: YESSSSS!!!! &lt;3 </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-basement-finished-1#post-1112529 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 09:16:02 +0000 MrsBrewer 1112529@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@loveisstrange: I think ours was finished around the same time, but instead of the wall paper, we have all wood paneling :-) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-basement-finished-1#post-1112523 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 09:14:41 +0000 CottonCandy 1112523@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>1/2 finished...How much does it even cost to finish a basement? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-basement-finished-1#post-1112518 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 09:13:55 +0000 swurlygurl 1112518@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@babyjmama: Is this in your *new* house?! :)</p> <p>Not finished... it is a dungeon of death right now. We are doing sooo many house projects, so we put off finishing it until we're done fixing our house, since we make quite a mess down there. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-basement-finished-1#post-1112514 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 09:12:05 +0000 Mrs. Champagne 1112514@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not yet. Working on getting quotes though! Hopefully finished in the next few months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-basement-finished-1#post-1112512 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 09:11:47 +0000 blackbird 1112512@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes buuuuut it has paneling, lol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-basement-finished-1#post-1112510 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 09:11:34 +0000 purrpletulips 1112510@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>no basement, our house is built on a slab but the basement in my dream home will be. </p>