Westmorland
The Halvorsen basement
A guest suite, office, and library built into a basement that first spent a month learning not to be damp.
The Halvorsens needed a guest suite for visiting parents and an office that was not the dining table. The basement had the space and a moisture problem, so the project started outside: regraded beds, new gutters, and an interior drain tile run before a single stud went up.
The finished level does not feel like a basement, which was the assignment: a shop-built oak desk wall and library, an egress window that reads as a real window, and a guest bath with the same tile standards as upstairs.
Reviews
Rated 4.9 stars across 116+ reviews
★★★★★
“The island panels shifted over the winter, exactly like they warned us they might. They came back in February and fixed it without being asked twice. Who does that?”
★★★★★
“We interviewed four firms. Fourlakes was the only one that told us our budget would not cover our wish list, then showed us which two-thirds of it mattered.”
★★★★★
“Friday, 4pm, every week: photos and a plan. I never once called to ask what was happening in my own house.”
★★★★★
“Standing in their shop next to our half-built cabinets was the moment this stopped feeling like a leap of faith.”
★★★★★
“The addition matches so well that our neighbor of nine years asked if we had repainted. That is it. That is the review.”
★★★★★
“Their first estimate and the final invoice were the same number. In this industry that fact alone deserves five stars.”
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