{"id":2099,"date":"2010-08-11T10:46:10","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T17:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/?p=2099"},"modified":"2014-12-21T10:28:57","modified_gmt":"2014-12-21T15:28:57","slug":"basement-plans-offer-flexibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/basement-plans-offer-flexibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Basement Plans Offer Flexibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The benefits of choosing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/\" title=\"house plan\">house plan<\/a> that includes a full basement foundation are endless. You can create a private retreat like a recreation room, media room, home office, wine cellar, second kitchen, wet bar or additional bedrooms. It&#8217;s a great way to give your children a fun and flexible place to hang out with their friends, watch movies and store all their toys, games and electronics. If you&#8217;re creating a large living space in your basement, be sure to include at least a half bathroom into your basement design and a small kitchen or wet bar. You&#8217;ll be glad you did, when the time comes for entertaining and containing your children to one area of the house. A finished basement also adds to the value (in many cases you&#8217;re almost doubling your square footage) and efficiency of your new home. Check out some really cool basement floor plans in the latest issue of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/dreamdesigns\/issue273\/\">Dream Designs<\/a> like this game room and wet bar from the Traverse House Plan:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/plan_details.asp?plannum=1900\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Game Room\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/images\/plans\/APS\/APS-207288%20Web%20Version\/Game%20Room.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"395\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/plan_details.asp?plannum=1900\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Wet Bar\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/images\/plans\/APS\/APS-207288%20Web%20Version\/Wet%20Bar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The benefits of choosing a house plan that includes a full basement foundation are endless. You can create a private retreat like a recreation room, media room, home office, wine cellar, second kitchen, wet bar or additional bedrooms. It&#8217;s a great way to give your children a fun and flexible place to hang out with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,2],"tags":[378,146,276,138,45,373],"class_list":["post-2099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-floor-plans","category-houseplans","tag-basement-floor-plans","tag-dream-designs","tag-game-room","tag-home-building","tag-house-plans","tag-wet-bar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9226,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions\/9226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}