Space. We all need more of it in our homes. Especially now, since we’re spending more time in our houses. Keith Early felt the same way.

Earlier this year he decided to take matters into his own hands. He found a way to change his home’s ugly, wasted basement space into a retreat for family and friends. And, he leaned heavily on products from Ornamental Moulding & Millwork to help create the change.

Decorative Millwork To The Rescue

To start with, Early’s basement had lots of traditional, round white steel structural posts. Decent lighting was available in the basement, but that’s where the basics stopped.

 With a unique vision, Early set out to create a comfortable big screen TV viewing section, a designated pool table area plus a new bar and wine room. He started with the ceiling. To meet the challenge of breaking the room apart visually he added Maple 5” Faux Wood Beams to a portion of the ceiling over the TV area. These were accented with Black Faux Beam Metal Brackets.

Moving downwards from the ceiling he next tackled the round white steel posts. He surrounded each one with Decorative Boards in Black to create a “box look” for each post. This created a visually enclosed area for the wooden pool table.

Leaning toward a wood, cream and gray mixture in the room, Early next fashioned the bar area by using Maple 3” Faux Wood Beams as island legs both ends of the bar. He also used Rustic Maple Boards along the front.

 As a finishing touch, Early installed the same Rustic Maple Boards in a two-step design on the entry area wall to the wine room. The visual connection serves to pull the basement together. Not finished yet, Early added White Oak Decorative Boards to create the wine racks on the wall.

 Now complete, the basement retreat serves as a showcase to friends and family proving that creativity, mixed in with the right millwork and moulding can transform a basement into more comfortable living space in a home.

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