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Basement Finishing Use Colorado Style Posted: 01 Jun 2014 11:37 AM PDT  The basement is one of the most suitable rooms used as a space to relax with family members. Basement is in underground so that your privacy and your family privacy very awake when conducting activity in the basement. A few decades ago, the use of basements as living room still limited among Americans, especially in urban areas. Use of the basement based on a reason to save the land because the land price in the city is very expensive. When building or renovating a basement, of course you want to have a unique, interesting and convenient basement. Now you can build or renovate a basement with adopt Colorado style. Colorado style almost akin to a classic style, but expressed simple, lifestyle and appreciation of art combined with a touch of the exotic traditional ornaments. Colorado’s style is usually applied to the basement when finishing stage, because the finishing process that determines the appearance of the basement after renovation. Basement finishing stage that use Colorado style can be seen from the use of the building’s distinctive elements such as doors and windows with double leaves, outside windows leaves and inside window leaves which made from glass. Although basements are underground, you can still make the window in the basement. You can put the window at basement walls that located in above ground. This window is very important as natural lighting during the morning and afternoon. Other typical elements of Colorado’s style are also a decorative profile that decorates the walls and windows. When you organize inside the basement, you can apply interior classic American-style which has decorative ornament simpler than European classical style. The Interior of the basement is also dominated by the composition of the color Brown and off white monochromatic that presents a warm and homey atmosphere that is supported with good lighting. Referring to the principles of classical style interiors, you can combine motifs of floral motifs with stripes as seen on the use of wallpaper and soft furnishings in the basement. At Colorado furniture style, characteristic of the classical style can be seen on a curved shape and a touch of golden color that give the impression of luxury and attractive. Thus, the set up of furniture is not only fulfilling the rooms function but also serves as an art work in combination with other interior accessories such as floor upholstery, curtains and lamps. Art collection home owners also play an important role in creating a basement that describes the personality of its owner. You can also use the color yellow and brown as the dominant color blending in your basement. Apply yellow on the walls to give a touch of warm and charming impression. Yellow color also can you apply to furniture such as a sofa and a single chair. While brown is better to apply on the floor, table, storage, or wooden picture frame. However we recommend you choose the basement wall color based on the style of the house. If your House is a federal style, classical, or Greece style, you can use pastel color like colors such as white, off-white, buff, pale yellow or gray soft very. Basement with Colorado Style is simpler compared to Victorian style. Craftsmanship of Victorian style design is complicated and extensive because there are many complex ornament details.  Since the basement is below ground, it gets a lot of coolness and moisture, so you need to warm it up. Put down a vapor barrier to protect the space between the wood and the cement. Next, lay 2x4s and frame it every 16 inches. Lay a strip, and between the 2x4s, place an insulation board and a piece of 3/4″ plywood on top. This type of floor is giving and resilient, and it’s warm enough that you can walk barefoot on it.

Basement Design Pictures Posted: 31 May 2014 11:37 PM PDT The imbalance between needs of dwelling and land which available, makes us have to think how to increase space when we require new spaces. Moreover, land prices always grew so we must think smart to look for the best alternative. This condition forces us to use of the existing land. The addition of space requirements for the activity can be done in vertical to the top or to the bottom. Space that has floor lower than land surface is called the basement. In tall buildings, basements are often utilized as a parking area and warehouse. In addition to functioning as a parking area and a storeroom, the existence of the basement also gave the advantage structurally as supporter to make the buildings become sturdy and pawed in the ground. Basement Design Pictures Basement at private homes often utilized for secondary spaces function as barn, workshop place, laundry room, toilets as well as spaces that require special requirements such as home theatre, music room or studio. The advantage of using the basement when doing activities is you can hide personal events from supervision of other parties as well as can maximize the function of untapped space. Before you build your basement, you need to create a basement designs pictures as a guide when working on the construction of a basement. To build a basement in your home, there are several things that you should watch out for when creating a basement designs pictures, namely: Pay attention to the border line of building. At the time of going to start designing your basement designs pictures, note the position of the boundary lines of the basement. Usually the position of the boundary lines of the basement is bit forward than the boundary lines of the building and approached the border of fence. Pay attention to the conditions around the construction area of the basement. When building a basement, you need to know the conditions that exist in the ground floor, because it is often used for underground utility lines such as plumbing, electrical networks and telephone networks. In addition to utility buildings, note also the environment around the construction of a basement. In the basement there is a stick on one of the neighbor's wall, and then you can use the sheet pile. Sheet pile is generally made of steel or concrete that serves as the retaining wall. Retaining wall is useful for holding soil and water pressure load. When the neighbor’s house next door to the basement area has two floors, the safest way is to make the distance of about 1.5 meters with the neighbor's wall. The anticipation of the ground water. In the design of basement, plumbing utility planning should be assisted with mechanical tools. For example in the basement will be built a bathroom or toilet, then the wastewater from the bathroom must be pumped up to be expelled through a channel of water in the ground floor. Another way to release the wastewater is making a septic tank lower than the basement floor. In anticipation the damage of mechanics on the pump, it is recommended to provide backup pump. To make the utility system become easier, usually made the waterways around the basement for serving the wastewater flow into the shelter. From the shelter’s water, water is pumped into the water flow in the ground floor. The basement walls. Wall in the basement must be designed to be sturdy and strong, because its function as a retaining wall or anchoring the load pressure on land and water. Concrete basement wall thickness ranges between 15cm up to 17.5cm, depending on the depth of the basement floor. While to anticipate the presence of water seepage, the walls should be given a layer of waterproofing. Materials to build the basement. The main problem that often appears in the basement area is humidity, as it is under the ground and not too much exposed to the sunlight. Problems of groundwater that is not addressed properly and thoroughly during the basement construction will also cause damp conditions. In addition to unhealthy, damp conditions can damage the room and the objects inside the basement. The walls of the basement tend to be humid and wet resulting in staining process cannot perfectly and make the paint becomes uneven. Therefore, you should use a waterproof paint to coat the walls of the basement. You should also not put pieces of furniture made of wood space if your basement is very humid conditions.

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