It’s estimated that up to 98 percent of all basements in the United States will eventually experience some type of water damage during the lifetime of a home. It’s not a huge surprise – after all, the ...

While some people take their basement for granted, others have never seen a basement in their life. But why aren't basements attached to every home? The primary factors that explain why some houses ...

Basement conversions have a habit of looking deceptively simple on paper. You already own the space, the footprint isn’t changing, and from the outside very little may appear different. This ...

For as long as Joyce Jones and her partner Floyd Brown have lived in their Capitol Hill rowhouse, they have talked about needing more space. Seventeen years and many buckets of dirt later, they are ...