Category Archives: Basement Finishing Resources

How to Prevent Mold in Your Finished Basement

Mold. It’s the word that no homeowner wants to hear. Once it takes hold, mold can spread all over your finished basement without warning. Mold does not just grow on the surface of walls. Mold can run deep within the … Continue reading

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Archways and Raised Ceilings – Features To Put Your Basement Design Over the Top

At Marvelous Basements we pride ourselves on providing our customers with the most unique basement designs. We never use cookie-cutter designs for our client’s remodeled basements. Each basement is designed to fit the customer’s home and even their personality. There … Continue reading

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How to Protect Yourself Against Shady Contractors

You have heard the story a thousand times. You know it all too well. A friend, a neighbor, maybe even a family member wants to get a portion of their house remodeled. They do a little searching, talk to a … Continue reading

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The Importance of a Matching Color Palette in Your Basement Design

Basement design is so important to creating the perfect finished basement pictures that we take when we wrap up a client’s project. There are so many facets within basement design that it would take forever to go through them all … Continue reading

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Dry Wall Selection for Your Basement Bathroom and Wet Bar Area – Make the Right Decision

We see it all the time, bathroom walls damaged and infested with mold, mildew and fungus, completely ruined due over-exposure to moisture.  We don’t blame the walls though, it’s not their fault. The blame rests with the person who decided … Continue reading

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Water Filters – More Important than You Think

In the previous post we looked at how something as little as a shower head can take your basement bathroom design to the next level. Most homeowners forget about these types of details when designing a basement. They are usually … Continue reading

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Choosing The Perfect Basement Bathroom Shower Head

As with most things in life, it’s the little things that count. It’s no different when it comes to  basement bathroom design. Even though it’s cool to have the flashy perks that standout in a basement it’s always good to … Continue reading

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5 Common Basement Finishing Mistakes by DIY Homeowners

Over the years Marvelous Basements has completed many basement projects where we are called in to fix the mistakes or finish a project started by a DIY homeowner. Now don’t get me wrong. I respect anyone who wants to tackle … Continue reading

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The Keys to St. Louis Basement Wetbar Design

One of the best ways to complete an efficient remodeled basement is to create a kitchen or wet bar area in the basement design. For the majority of homeowners, the motivation to remodel their basement comes from the desire to … Continue reading

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How to Winterize Your Basement

It’s getting close to that time of year again: Winter. As the fall temperatures begin to slowly creep lower and lower we are reminded that cold weather is just around the corner and with it comes all the challenges of … Continue reading

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