It's easy to find advice on decorating almost every inch of your home: kitchens, living rooms, bedrooms, baths. Even mudrooms and closets get attention. But the lowly basement gets short shrift. These ...

It's easy to find advice on decorating nearly every inch of your home. Kitchens, living rooms, bedrooms, baths -- even mudrooms and closets get attention. But the lowly basement gets short shrift.

It's easy to find advice on decorating nearly every inch of your home. Kitchens, living rooms, bedrooms, baths even mudrooms and closets get attention. But the lowly basement gets short shrift. These ...

I understand the problem of a cold basement. When the ground freezes, a great deal of heat is lost through the basement walls. If possible, I would first dig a trench a few feet down around the ...

It’s easy to find advice on decorating nearly every inch of your home. Kitchens, living rooms, bedrooms, baths – even mudrooms and closets get attention. But the lowly basement gets short shrift.

Q: I live in a townhouse in Gaithersburg, Maryland, built in the early 1980s. It has a finished basement with a small egress window with a rounded well outside. During heavy rainstorms, which we had ...