With a limited amount of severance pay available to her, Dori needed to get her new business up and running in a hurry. “Luckily, I’d been thinking about going on my own as a consultant for a while,” she said. “So I knew what I wanted to do. But where was I going to do it?”  Office space rents in the Boston area were enough to give Dori heart palpitations. “There’s no way I was ready to commit to that type of expense – especially when they’re talking a year lease or even longer! – without knowing for certain my business was going to be successful.”

Dori decided to look closer to home for her office space. “Finishing the basement was one of those things I’d always meant to do, but I never really got around to it,” Dori said. “Now that I had a reason  and needed that office space, I started looking for a Scituate basement renovation contractor.”

“My new office didn’t have to be luxurious, but I definitely wanted it to be comfortable,” Dori said. “I was thrilled with the basement finishing systems that are available: it makes it so simple to get a really nice space in a very efficient manner. Picking out what the walls and flooring would look like was fun, and the contractor really paid attention to the fact I needed a lot of light – when you do as much paperwork as I plan to be doing, being able to see is a top priority.”

“Having my basement turned into a home office was one of the easiest and most satisfying part of starting my own business,” Dori said. “If everything else goes this well, the future will be bright indeed.”

Shirley had two goals with her basement renovation. “I want a nice open space where I can do my work,” she said, “but more important than that is storage.” The fabric, notions, and other materials Shirley uses in her tailoring business take up a lot of space, and finding one particular item amongst all the rest was difficult because her materials weren’t organized.

Your Scituate basement finishing company can work with you to create smart storage solutions for your family. There are many shelving, rack and cabinetry options that can be customized to your exact specifications.  “We found that by bringing some stuff down here, it really opened up a lot of the storage space that was being used upstairs,” Shirley explained. “All of a sudden, we had a place for the kids to put their coats and book bags again: it’s wonderful how adding storage in the basement creates open space upstairs.”

Holiday decorations, sports gear, paperwork and records, lawn furniture and other similar seasonal use items often clutter up garages. “But when you have smart storage in your basement,” Shirley explained, “you can put other things in your garage – like a car!”