For a teenaged boy, an unfinished basement is like uncharted territory ready to be claimed. This is space that the rest of the household has decided not to colonize, using it instead as a storehouse for all that is unfit … Continue reading
Basements are the mausoleums of well-intentioned projects left to the wayside. How many of us have stashed a desk chair that’s down a wheel with the good intention of repairing this otherwise perfectly good item? And what did you do? I’ll … Continue reading
The view looking down the staircase is often a daunting one. Dark, damp, unknown conditions lurk below. Mouldering possessions cast their musty scent as a thick cloud of rot. Animals may scurry to perceived safety. The basement is the last … Continue reading
While I was living in Costa Rica, my local friends would wonder at the concept of the basement. With a perma-spring climate and high water table, nobody in that country had one. “Anyway, what would you use one for,” one … Continue reading
