Basement Window

At last you big project of basement remodeling is over, after months of labor and heavy withdrawals from the bank! With your hands on your hips you survey the whole area, slowly taking a complete round and absorb every detail. For long you have been waiting to cherish this moment.

You seem to be grinning ear to ear and taking pride in your achievements, yet there is that feeling of something amiss or gone wrong somewhere. Something has definitely been overlooked?

The uncomfortable feeling is what could have gone wrong after you labored for so long and spent huge amounts. Whether you did it all by yourself or hired a professional, there is one last detail–the proverbial icing on the cake–that needs to be accomplished to get that feel that your basement remodeling is really over.

Yes! You have a big good looking cake with inviting flavor that lacks the final icing. You already completed all this:

- Walls: drywall, texture, and paint.

- Ceiling: new ceiling tiles or paint.

- Floors: new floor coverings.

- Trim: new baseboards, window molding, and new doors.

- Built-ins: new cabinets and a bar.

- Bathroom: new fixtures.

- Conveniences: new refrigerator, wine cooler, bar sink.

- Fun décor items: gas fireplace, can lights, decorative pendant lights.

Everything looks superb. You were meticulous in your planning, right from choosing the color scheme; lighting and that wood trim so aesthetically adding nice warmth to the space along with the fireplace. You just fail to realize what you forgot…till you turn towards the windows.

Those galvanized metal window wells invite a frown on your face. All the while you were happy with those metal window wells because they would fill your basement with natural light. And the safety factor associated with these egress windows can’t be overlooked. But those metal window wells are simply beyond you, too ugly!

The idea of finishing those window wells never occurred to you simply because they are out of your home. But not any more, as everything is finished indoors, those wells become an eyesore, and mange to get your attention all the time, wherever you are in the basement.

You hate to cover your basement windows with blinds, curtains or shades as that affects the amount of light entering your den to brighten it up. So, how do you mask that unsightly metal?

Perhaps you could paint the metal–but you lack that artistic talent. You might build something additional in the well and cover the metal, but that may reduce the area, making it difficult to escape in an hour of emergency.

Here’s a solution. You get a decorative ready to use solution in the market that allows you to attach a thin scenic liner straight on to the curved metal window well. It’s made from durable, weatherproof, waterproof styrene, a flexible plastic, which remains unaffected by extremes of weather, hot or cold. It’s easy to apply onto the window well and gets attached to the metal.

The provision of the scenic liner allows the room to remain flooded with daylight and brightens the colors. As the image is curved, you get grand 3-D effect on viewing it. With this kind of a scenic background, you can decorate the foreground whichever way you like. You may just provide river rock or any other landscape material, or continue with your theme of artificial plants and other landscape pieces like driftwood, sculptures, figures, or suchlike materials. And, earn the credit of personal original creation.

Such like images make your den like it’s in the woods, next to a lake or a river, may be some mountain when you view thru the window. You might as well make it look like a golf course. Maybe you like its being tranquil – go for a waterfall! You like getting a feel of being in paradise, consider beach, the ocean with rows upon rows of palm trees, or whatever be your imagination for heavens.

That completes the icing on your cake. It’s the finishing touches that matter most in transforming an ordinary window to a heavenly place while you are in there.