Basement
... now you don't! When entertaining, the clients can draw full-height, in-line sliding doors across the children's craft and homework area and across the desk, leaving everything as cluttered as can be, with no one the wiser. The doors, made by German company Hafele, stack and disappear into closets at either end when open. There are also bolts in the floor so that the mom can lock up her computer when the kids have sleepovers. The doors are covered in a custom lacquer that reflects the light.
To create the illusion of a full window, Zaeske purchased an off-the-shelf woven Roman shade; separated the top valance portion and installed it at ceiling height; hung the bottom portion of the shade beneath the window, simulating a top-down window shade; and framed the windows with her inspiration fabric
AFTER: Pace started by opening up the ceiling. He removed the existing ceiling structure to expose the main floor’s original floor joists and brought the ceiling height up to around 7 feet. The team considered finishing the soot-covered joists but ultimately just sanded them, retaining a link to the building’s history and saving some money.
AFTER: "When it comes to basements, you can never have too many lights or too many ways to control it with dimmers and switches," Moore says. The pot lights in front of the cabinet doors add ambience. He also used some clever tricks to give the illusion of natural light. If you look closely at this picture, you'll see that the only real window is the small one to the left of the built-ins (there is one more small window on the other side of the built-ins). However, using glass on the cabinet doors and a windowpane mirror lends the illusion of natural light in the underground space. In truth, the ground is just 6 inches below the bottom of the exterior window, and the glass door leads to a new laundry room
8. Reduce noise. Your newly finished basement has the potential to affect the rest of your house with noise, particularly if you create a media or play room. Installing sound insulation into the basement ceiling can help. Higuera also suggests using RC channel, which is a long piece of metal shaped like a hat when viewed from the end. Without a sound break, sound travels through the wood right into the drywall. The RC channel is installed across the joists before the drywall. When it’s time for the drywall to be attached, it rests on the RC channel instead of the wood joists, reducing noise transmission. Another option? Surface-mount lights versus can lights. “Can lights tend to carry noise, so use surface-mount lights if your ceiling is high enough,” Higuera says.
AFTER: The metallic tile from the hallway and wet bar room extend into the bathroom, and newly smoothed white walls bounce the light around
AFTER: "I upholstered the mattress on the daybed to give it more of a sofa look," Lord says. She also lightened up the walls and added new window treatments, new carpeting and a new desk.
Without room for nightstands, Lord designed the bed to have a shelf behind the top of the headboard for reading lamps, books and glasses. "I designed a heavily tufted headboard to balance out the sleekness of the room," Lord says.
AFTER: Two built-in wardrobes on either side of the headboard take the place of the closet. Drawers underneath the platform bed provide plenty of storage for linens. Now there is also enough room to walk around the bed
Wet bar, fridge in drawers
Retro éclairage
Miroir
Miroir
Traitement mur fenêtre
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