Basements : Your Guide to Planning and Remodeling

Bys: Better Homes and Gardens Editors and John Riha

This guide helps readers assess the remodelling potential of their basement or cellar. Tips are offered for planning space effectively, costing improvements, and overcoming common problems. A template... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0696208970
• ISBN13: 9780696208973
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Better Homes & Gardens Books
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Great planning book--but not a how-to

This book covers the main points to consider in planning a basement renovation, and has lots of ideas, including good color pictures. If you need a book to tell you how to frame the walls and put up drywall, go buy one of those instead--there are a lot of those available. This book is a great guide to planning (just like the title says)!

Great

You will save a lot of money on redoing Your basement with thisbook.

Handsome and helpful new book

When we first decided to have our basement finished off,we called two contractors who arrived with an array of ideas that were not very creative at all. Then we found this new book and took over the planning process ourselves. This book covers all the basics with good information as well as great color photos of handsome basements. Thanks to this book, my wife and I have nearly finished planning how we want our unfinished basement to look and function.We know where we want the walls and even how we will arrange the furniture. The book helped us come up with something that really fits our life-style and taste.

This is the basements book I was looking for

Finally! An idea-filled book about redecorating and remodeling basements. I love the gorgeous photography and all the planning tips. I think the previous reviewer misunderstood the book -- obviously,this is not a do-it-yourself "build-a-wall" kind of book. (There is plenty of that at the bookstore already.) This book is helping me see all the options and plan how we want our basement to look and function. It's even giving me tips on finding a contractor who will do the work. And my husband loves the specific projectg ideas with actual COSTS included so we can figure out if the estimates we get are reasonable or not. Love the room arranging kit that comes in the book, too. (Can you tell I love this book?)

Good for ideas. light on specifics.

Shows many excellent basements, which are inspiring for what can be achieved. However, that glosses over the fact that most people want to add a room or two without spending $20,000 or more. Does not have enough info if you are a DIYer.