Basement bedroom layout access dilemma
MacKenzie
5 years ago
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Comments (29)I know you will hate me for this, but please understand my view point. I am an old house LOVER! I also spent twenty years as a banker trying to talk people into understanding that their future home purchase had to be about love....and practicality. When you are in love with a house you think that the fact that it slapped around the last owners was likely because they were bad owners...they probably deserved it because they didn't do the maintenance you would do to keep it in check. You justify the little issues like the third eye as something minor instead of realizing that a third eye is not actually a normal thing and will require some seriously expensive custom lenses. You turn a wet basement into a couple puddles.... Ten years,..no lets make it five if you get the house....if you find that my pessimistic attitude was totally incorrect and your home turned out to be perfect beyond compare...please tell me I am wrong so I can learn a lesson. But if on the other hand my gazillion years of trying to make people understand that they should buy a home they love....but should equally involve their brains and heart in the equation turns out to make some sense in your potential chris brown like situation.....well be sure to share that valuable experience as well so that others can learn from you...and make light of your experience because "that will never happen to them". I tried to buy the egg and I farm as a young wife ohhhhh so many years ago thinking that a house with walls falling down and a tree growing in the living room just needed our tender and inexperienced care to bring it back.....the bank laughed...thank god!...See MoreBasement layout - narrow and dark access coming down the steps?
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Comments (5)It’s funny because when I my best friend visited with my god children a few years ago he put the small one to bed in the basement because he said if she wakes up and hears us she will not go back to bed and it will be a long night so she does better far away from us. So certainly needs vary even with kiddos. I know digging is definately an expense. Therein lies the problem…the ceiling is only about 74 inches. It’s certainly fine for sub 6 foot folks… the egress window will probably help the overall feel of the room A lot but the room won’t be very big.… just big enough for a queen and small dresser. I could see it being claustrophobic for more than an occasional use guest but I have seen kids rooms of similar size. If we do it will likely put a day bed. if I was a teenager I would 100% take a small basement room with en-suite over a larger bedroom upstairs. In my case this room would likely be where mom stays since it would be near the media room and she likes her privacy....See MoreMacKenzie
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Cheryl Smith
5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoYou need egress windows in all bedrooms to actually be called bedrooms. Contact your city to get their current code. For fire safety a fireman needs to be able to access the bedrooms in full gear, it's not just a way out. Our old house basically had the same layout. I'll try drawing up what we did. We had a kitchen by the stairs, 2 bedrooms, bath/laundry and living area. We added the egress windows by cutting the windows that were already there lower. my husband did all the work. The jog in the living room area is the closet for that bedroom. I know these rooms aren't everyone's taste but the all wood bedroom was the only room done in the basement along with the center load bearing wall. That wood was from a local lumber mill and Original to the house. We live in Montana and are collectors. The house was built in 1959.
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5 years agoCheryl Smith
5 years agoThis is a rough drawing of our old house basement. The left back bedroom was already in place along with the central furnace and toilet but it was open to the rest of the space. We had the same problem of dealing with making decent size bedrooms and decided that a jog was the only way to deal with what we had to work with, without moving the furnace. I only mentioned egress because of the age of your house and you just said you had windows. We had the original basement windows just cut down and didn't change their location. We also left the smaller basement windows where the were. It doesn't really feel like a basement at all. Our egress windows are on the south side of the house. We made a common planting garden with landscape timbers incorporating steps instead of using window wells. I wanted to look at something nicer.
Cheryl Smith
5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoegress and view from inside we dug the area deep and just dropped the cement cutout from the windows into that space covered with rock
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