Basements

The Room You Need Is Already Downstairs

Your basement already has its foundation, walls and roof, which can make it the most valuable unfinished square footage in the house. We turn it into the guest suite, theater, playroom or office your home is missing, with moisture and code settled first and the price fixed before construction begins.

A finished basement living room with leather sofas and built-in shelves, open to the kitchen of a Ridgefield, CT in-law suite

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Stone steps down to the bluestone walk-out patio and French doors of a finished basement in Ridgefield, CT

It Starts Below the Carpet

Finishing a basement isn’t simply a matter of adding carpet and drywall. A basement asks its own questions, and we settle them on the drawings before the finishes are chosen:

  • Moisture and drainage, addressed before the finished space goes in
  • Ceiling height
  • Egress for any room meant for sleeping
  • Insulation, heating and cooling
  • Stairs and natural light
  • Wiring

Everything is decided before construction, and if it’s in the plans, it’s in the price. Our conversion of a 1970s indoor pool into a lower-level playroom and guest quarters in New Canaan won a HOBI Award for Best Conversion.

What Will Your Basement Be?

Start with what you’re missing. Many basements can be updated to include two or three of these at once.

Before and After

Two lower levels, each with a problem solved first: a humid indoor pool, and a brook that came indoors.

Why Finish the Basement?

  1. Space You Already Own

    The foundation, walls and roof are already there, so finishing a basement usually costs less than building an addition. It is also the answer when the lot leaves no room to add on.

  2. Problems Found Before the Drywall

    Moisture, egress, insulation and wiring are worked out before the finished space goes in. That is how you avoid the hidden issues that surface down the road.

  3. A Room That Changes With You

    Today’s playroom can be tomorrow’s teen hideout, guest room or office, if it is planned that way from the start. In New Canaan, French doors let the guest quarters become an office or workout room later.

  4. Less Disruption Upstairs

    When a basement has its own exterior door, we can sometimes finish it while the main levels of the house are barely touched. That matters when you are living at home through the project.

Put the Space Downstairs to Work

Tell us what your home is missing and we’ll show you what your basement could become, with a fixed price before we build.

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