Tile the Walls for Easy Care

Subway tiles employed over drywall up to plate-rail height make durable, easy-to-maintain walls for a basement laundry room.

Perk Up with Plywood

Paint some of the plywood squares using chalkboard paint to make a message centre at Finished Basement.

A Vibrant, Beautiful, Budget End

A thrifty solution to completing a basement laundry room is to paint everything white–concrete-block walls in addition to the exposed floor joists and ducts overhead–and conceal the walls with curtains.

Mask Block Wall with Paint

In case your concrete-block basement walls are dry and free of efflorescence or mould, you can seal them using a masonry sealer or all-purpose water-base primer-sealer and paint with a high-quality latex paint.

A Unique Wainscot Steps Up

Old yardsticks attached to the wall involving 1×4 dividers produce a dense and intriguing texture on a cellar wall. Try this on a point wall or some short space divider–the range will determine how wide each segment between the dividers ought to be.

Cover the Wall with Pegboard

Panels of white-painted pegboard add amazing texture into the wall of this retro-style basement. With the help of hanging hardware you can decorate the wall with baskets, photos in addition to for magazines and DVDs.

Brighten with Color

Painting adjacent walls bright white tames the orange and reflects light, eliminating any threat of basement gloom.

Leave Brick Exposed for an Urban Look

If your house’s foundation walls are brick instead of the more common poured concrete or concrete block, then leave them vulnerable for a chic loft look in the basement. This cellar office will get light out of windows. In their natural state the brick walls are for fashionable urban style and the wood flooring joists overhead are vulnerable.

Lines and Color Insert Orientation

A picture-frame motif repeats in the board insets on the walls and carpet squares onto the floor within this basement living room. The geometry is highlighted with a bold colour scheme. The wall panels are created from picture-frame molding.