Best Small Man Cave Ideas

Sewing Room-Make low ceilings appear higher with customized built-ins that maximize vertical space.

This sewing, craft and gift-wrap channel was designed into a nook of a basement laundry room. The plans included built-in cabinets which provide lots of storage to organize supplies and seasonal products. Simple Ikea boxes flip the open shelves into a clean screen and white paint keeps it fresh and glowing. The durable slate floor is practical and elevates the decoration.

Playful Home Office - Embrace brick walls rather than drywalling over them.

A red accent wall adds the look of depth to this room and feels daring and cheerful compared to the cellar 's easy black and white plot. The gallery wall includes original drawings from designer Theresa Casey and her husband, Robert Gray.

Work with plumbing.

Placing this bath beside the plumbing shaft left room for a freestanding sink at the little bathroom. New pipes was inserted from the laundry room, along with the HVAC ducts were increased to the ceiling joists to allow for as much headroom as possible.

Craft Area-Plan for multiuse corners to maximize functionality in a little basement.

This laundry area doubles as a storage space, craft area and wrapping centre. Cabinetry constructed along the walls opposite the appliances retains lightbulbs, batteries, additional garbage bags and other household supplies. A pegboard equipped with dangling containers and tiny sticks keeps craft and wrap materials organized while an adjoining corkboard displays inspirational photographs for craft and reno projects. Open shelves have been put high on the walls to add storage space without creating the little room feel closed in; baskets and bins are used here in order to store modest items corralled.

Hidden Guest Bed

Incorporate a guest mattress into your existing layout instead of putting up new partitions to get another bedroom. This Murphy bed employs a suspension system which makes it possible to lift one finger. On both sides of the queen-size bed, a market in the wall functions as a side table and can be wired using a reading light. After the bed is folded upward, homeowners Barbara and Michael Purdy utilize the freed-up space as a work out area.

Toilet Vanity Makeover-Give a big-box store locate a luxury look with a coat of paint.

Interior's director Meg Crossley altered her dingy basement toilet with a cheap washstand she discovered in Canadian Tire. She painted it the exact same powdery light blue color as the panel molding, which was set up to liven up the little space by covering the first dark tile. A painted faade for the side of the ugly old tub, at precisely the same shade of blue, spared Meg the cost of installing a new tub. A black framed mirror, flanked with easy black alloy and milk glass sconces, adds comparison to all the blue.