If you’re going to remodel the basement, put a door in.
My husband had been doing a lot of talk about remodeling the basement and putting a game room down there for the children.
I thought that was an excellent idea, especially with the summer coming.
We got a lot of terrible storms during the summer, and it would be nice to have the storm shelter feeling more like a living room than a dungeon. Since the game room was taking up the back half of the basement, I asked him if he could put another door into the front of the basement. He asked me what I had in mind? I told him that since he was going to remodel anyway, I would like to have a door on the other half of the basement so that I could put in a yoga studio. Instead of needing to rent a space for my yoga studio, we could save the rental, and use our basement for my yoga studio. We had plenty of space where my clients could park the cars, and by having a door, we would not be interrupting the family in the game room or my husband by going through the house. He wanted to figure out if he could put a door in the basement. The way they built our house, to go into the basement, you had to go down steps and open the door. That was the area where he was planning on putting the game room. It was our storm shelter for years, and now it would also be the game room. He measured out the space and told me that once he enclosed the HVAC system, it would be easy to put in a door so I could have a private yoga studio.