Do you need more living space and want to make use of your dark, unfinished basement? Lisa Worth says room adjacency is super important in making your basement work best for you. Room adjacency is all about putting certain rooms next to each other to create a flow to your basement that makes it highly functional. Take a look at the two different plans below and see why Lisa prefers one over the other.

Plan 1 - NOT THE BEST OPTION AND HERE'S WHY:

• Look at the location of the laundry room. When planning your basement renovation, approach it the same way you would your main floor. Think about proximity, relationships and convenience access. For instance, you would not put the kitchen far from the dining room - that is the golden rule of space planning and the first thing interior designers are taught when space planning.
• Now look at the location of the guest bedroom. Again, do you want to have to go through the media area to reach the guest bedroom?
• A nice aspect of the plan is the sense of entry into the space, as it is quite open, but think of the problems with the acoustics.