In 2005 when Marc and Kristin Faecher moved into a newly constructed center-hall colonial in Berkeley Heights, the spacious unfinished basement was a godsend for a couple with three young boys.

An unfinished basement in Bedford was transformed into a 2,200-square-foot family retreat at a fraction of the cost of a similar-sized addition. “It is far cheaper to heat and cool a basement than ...

When John Bradfield’s clients said they wanted to convert the basement of their Newton Colonial into a series of fun and functional finished rooms, he had to first divide the sprawling space. To ...