We have a sort of cellar; it's a big area (at least 25 x 15 feet) but only about 4 feet high, so a bit tricky to do anything useful with - we've got the Christmas tree and decorations down there but that's basically it.
Having converted our loft we are really short of storage space and I would love to make the basement into a big storage room with power and light where I could perhaps put a bigger freezer and a tumble dryer as well as lots of shelving.
Has anyone done anything like this? I don't want to do a full 'grand designs' living space; it doesn't need any windows and only needs to be about 8ft (if that) ceilings. But the hatch is tiny and I wonder how all the rubble etc would come out. We could run stairs down through our under-stairs cupboard (as we wouldn't need it any more with all that storage
).
I tend to hear about basements costing much more than lofts and if it's £100k it would never be worth it (though I think that's more the price for the fancy living space type ones). I presume we'd need party wall agreements. We could work around the pillars that are down there but they'd presumably need to be lengthened to get to the required ceiling height. If it was £20k I'd be right in there. I keep thinking "but it's half way there already"... am I being unrealistic?