Tips For Brightening Up Your Basement

Sometimes basements become neglected in the home decorating process. When you are ready to brighten up your basement and make it feel like home, here are 5 tips to help inspire your decorating process. 

Artwork

Paintings and other creative forms of artwork make perfect additions to walls in bedrooms, living rooms, and even basements. Instead of leaving your basement unfinished, take the time to finish it, and with those new walls in place, you'll have a great blank slate for creativity,

Paint

One of the more obvious ways to make your basement brighter is by painting the wells with a bright color palette. Vibrant shades of red, yellow, and orange can give the room an energetic and warm atmosphere that a cooler color palette won't.

Window Wells

Installing window wells is an easy and effective way of bringing natural sunlight from the outside down into your basement. With window wells in place, if you turn the basement into an entertainment room and fall asleep watching a movie, you'll wake up to the warm glow of sunlight instead of the typical dank darkness of an empty basement.

Mirrors

One of the easiest and most beloved ways to brighten any given room in a house is to place mirrors strategically throughout. Of course, you want to keep that word "strategically" in mind so that you don't go from residential house to funhouse in the span of an afternoon

Flooring

Buying shiny furniture can help capture that reflective nature of mirrors, but one of the most effective ways to implement shiny surfaces is with flooring. A smooth, polished floor made from tile, wood, or even concrete can allow light to bounce across your basement with ease.