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Basement Room Addition — Logan, Utah

An unfinished basement turned into a finished bedroom and walk-in closet, in about four weeks.

Where
Logan, Utah
Project
Basement room addition
Scope
Bedroom and walk-in closet
Cost
$13,500
Timeline
About four weeks on site

The owners of this house do not live in Utah. Their kids do — they are at college here in Logan — and with another family member starting school, the house needed one more bedroom.

The space was already there. The basement was unfinished: concrete floor, bare walls, open joists overhead, the furnace and ductwork sitting out in the open. What it did not have was a room.

We framed it out, ran the electrical, insulated, hung and taped the drywall, textured and painted, did the carpentry and trim, set the lighting, tied the new space into the HVAC so it heats and cools like the rest of the house, and laid new carpet. What came out the other side is a bedroom with a walk-in closet, finished to the same standard as the floor above it.

About four weeks on site, framing through carpet.

A note on the number. This was one room inside an unfinished basement — not a full basement finish. A full finish with bedrooms, a bathroom, a kitchenette and a living area runs $120,000 to $180,000 in Cache Valley. Scope is most of what moves the price, and we would rather show you both ends of it.

Start To Finish

Unfinished basement in Logan, Utah before work began, bare concrete floor and exposed floor joistsBefore: unfinished basementUnfinished basement space beside the stairs before the room addition beganBefore: beside the stairsBare concrete corner of the basement before any framing went inBefore: bare concrete cornerUnfinished basement showing the furnace and mechanical area before work startedBefore: furnace and mechanical areaFraming lumber delivered and stacked outside the house on delivery dayLumber delivery dayFirst stud walls going up to form the new basement roomFraming beginsFramed doorway openings for the new bedroom and closetDoorway openings framedFraming showing the layout of the new basement room taking shapeRoom layout takes shapeFramed opening for the walk-in closetWalk-in closet framedCompleted framing with the ceiling rough-in run overheadFraming complete, ceiling rough-inFraming complete with materials staged on the floorMaterials stagedInsulation installed in the framed basement wallsInsulation inElectrical rough-in run through the ceiling joistsElectrical rough-inDrywall going up on the new basement roomDrywall goes upDrywall hung throughout the room and ready for tapingDrywall hungDrywall taped with the ceiling cut in for recessed lightsTaped and cut in for lightsDrywall mudded and sanded, ready for textureMudded and sandedWall texture applied with trim staged for installTexture on, trim stagedRoom painted, before the carpet went downPainted, before carpetCloset doors installed in the finished roomCloset doors inPainted room showing the closet cornerPainted room, closet cornerNew carpet installed through the basement hallwayCarpet through the hallwayCarpeted room looking out through the doorwayCarpet downFinished basement room with recessed lighting and new carpetRecessed lighting inHallway past the mechanical area leading to the new roomHallway past the mechanicalsHallway looking into the finished basement roomLooking in from the hallwayDoorway into the finished basement bedroomDoorway into the finished roomFinished basement bedroom with new carpet and recessed lightingFinished roomFinished bedroom with the walk-in closet openWalk-in closet openFinished basement bedroom looking toward the doorwayFinished room, toward the doorWalk-in closet with shelving installedCloset shelving inThe completed basement room addition in Logan, UtahCompleted

From The Job Site

Short clips filmed as the work went, in build order.

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