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Basements, Water Management
5 Things to Consider When Waterproofing A Finished Basement Finishing a basement is excellent for expanding your living quarters, preventing potential foundation issues, and improving the value of your St. Louis home. Such a significant job requires a licensed...
Basements, Basements, Design & Remodeling, Designer Talk, Personal Spaces
How to Brighten Your Basement If you are considering finishing your basement or a basement remodel, you should first think about how you’d like the space to look and feel overall. While many homeowners choose to create a cave-like basement for movie viewing or...
Basements, Home Makeovers, Kitchens, Outdoor Living, Personal Spaces, Remodeling, Trends
Fall is almost here, and many St. Louisans are gearing up for chili cookoffs, outdoor bonfires, and all the pumpkin-filled porch decor imaginable. This time of year, many homeowners begin making a wishlist of things that would make their home that much cozier in the...
Basements, Basements, Design & Remodeling, Personal Spaces
Recently, many of us have had the opportunity to be home more than ever. This has us all thinking about improvements we could make around the house. Many of our clients are interested in expanding their living space either outside the home via patios and porches, or...
Basements, Basements, Designer Talk, Personal Spaces, Remodeling
Our basements are a wonderland of possibilities, with all that space waiting to take care of our basic needs like storage or our fondest dreams of an arts and crafts studio, media room, home theater or teenage escape. It can be anything you desire, and this is why...
Basements, Mosby Tour, Remodeling
When a Wentzville, MO family built a brand new home they purposely left the walk-out basement unfinished so they could learn what they wanted from that space. Two years later they knew the basement should serve as a multi-tasking lower level. Mosby Building Arts...
Basements, Before & After, Garages & Driveways, Remodeling
A split-level mid-century modern home in Webster Groves, MO had a basement that multi-tasked as a one-car garage, recreation area and laundry room, with access to the backyard. The family wanted this high-traffic space to be a more functional and beautiful lower...
Basements, Design & Remodeling, Personal Spaces
We love playing games at home, and instinctively create spaces to recreate. For example, a certain chair across from a certain TV that’s regularly used to play video games is a dedicated recreation space. As the games get bigger, like pinball or table tennis, it...
Basements, Q & A, Repairs & Advice
Question We just repaired a bad water leak that completely covered one wall in the finished basement. It’s dry wall with a vapor barrier and insulation behind it. The only moisture I can feel is in the corners of the drywall at the base but I know the insulation is...