ours is not, but the contractors are starting next week!
so excited for the extra space
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No basements in Texas
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Yup! Full, finished and partial daylight. I LOVE it!!!
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Half finished when we moved in, the other half DH is working on.
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@mrsjyw: eee yay! playroom? office?
Our basement (in our rental house) is sort of half-finished. Half of the space is blocked off with a door (the hot water heater, etc are back there) and we use that space for storage as does our landlord. The other half is "finished". There is a carpet on the floor and three walls are finished, and there's recessed lighting. One wall is only partly finished. And under the carpet you can feel that the floor is not level or flat. But it's great as a playroom and storage space. It's a walk-out basement and the door goes straight out to the parking area behind the house, which is convenient.
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Yep! I wouldn't have bought a house without a finished basement.
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Yes, but it was finished in the 70s, so it is STYLISH. Faux plaster, red and gold wallpaper and metallic linoleum. Me-ow.
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Yep, ours has a laundry area, an office, play area and bathroom.
I really regret not getting heated floors!!
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Nope. It was at one point, but the precious owners ripped it out to redo it and then never did. There is a finished bathroom so we won't have to deal with that. I can't wait to finish it, not we just need the money. It is huge!
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no basement, our house is built on a slab but the basement in my dream home will be.
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Yes buuuuut it has paneling, lol.
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Not yet. Working on getting quotes though! Hopefully finished in the next few months.
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@babyjmama: Is this in your *new* house?!
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.
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1/2 finished...How much does it even cost to finish a basement?
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@loveisstrange: I think ours was finished around the same time, but instead of the wall paper, we have all wood paneling
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@swurlygurl: YESSSSS!!!!
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@cottoncandy, it's not too bad depending on how big it is. 10-20K? But that's from a rough-in
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@blackbird: Ahh not tooo bad then! Thanks
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We don't have a basement.
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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.
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Basements are rare in Arizona, we've never had one.
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No basement... I wish we had one so we had *somewhere* to store stuff
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No, but we hope to finish it off someday. It won't be for a while though!
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Our current house is on a slab, but a finished basement is low on my priority list, like not even on it.
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@mrsjyw: Yay!!!
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.
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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.
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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!
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@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.
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@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.
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@ABCmrs: It must be very similar, I had to google it!
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.
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@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.
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@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.
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?
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@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!
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@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
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Ours is fully finished with a full bath, but we never go down there. We haven't bought any furniture for it yet!
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We don't have a basement! Unless you count the dirty crawl space where we store the lawn mower a basement.
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@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!
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@ABCmrs: me neither! It's really interesting, isn't it!
I am in the Northeast.
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@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.
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