Basement Layout Tip - Open Your Stairwell

Today's best basement finishing designs often involve making the basement feel and look like the rest of the house. A very popular trend is to open up the stairwell going down to the basement as you would typically see with stairwells above grade. A long walled stairway signals that you are going down into a basement. Pictured is a creative way to use Pole-Wrap to open up a wall that commonly contains a structural support column at the bottom of the stairs.