Basement Makeover with White Ceiling and Vinyl Floor Planks

I am finally sharing our open concept basement makeover with white ceiling and vinyl floor planks! The goal was to make the basement not seem like a basement and feel like the rest of the house. Living with three generations under one roof requires a lot of storage so we decided to create multiple closed storage areas in the basement.

Basement Makeover Before and After

Before:

We started this project right before Christmas last year and then Covid-19 hit which put a halt to everything. Jim did an amazing job converting this basement into a masterpiece with a coastal vibe.

Be sure to check out the first post before Christmas where I share how Jim and I decided to create this fun space!

Wood Plank Basement Ceiling

We installed Armstrong Ceilings WOODHAVEN Planks in a white textured woven finish. The white woven planks are not only gorgeous but so easy to install and helped create the open concept clean look we were going after. If you are trying to create an open concept basement that feels like the rest of your home and not like a basement, I highly recommend these white WOODHAVEN Planks.

Basement Door Ideas – White Barn Sliding Doors

You guys, these barn sliding doors from Horner Millwork are insanely amazing! We have installed a lot of barn doors over the years and these are by far, my favorite. They are not your traditional rustic X-style barn doors. We picked the Masonite Livingston Smooth Collection which are elegant and the black sliding door barn hardware that comes with the doors coordinated perfectly lending to a modern look with a hint of rustic style.

This is the wall before :

In order to create closed storage, we partitioned off the unfinished part of the basement we call my “blog studio.” My dad calls it the junk side of the basement but I would hardly call my Homegoods, Wayfair and various other home decor finds ….Junk!

Here is another shot of the Masonite Livingston Interior door with black hardware. You will notice that we went with the same interior doors throughout the basement. Some on sliding hardware and the others mounted with hinges.

I will share another post showing the new storage areas behind all the Livingston Interior doors.

Funny story about this pantry below. When Covid-19 hit, Jim had an idea to turn this small area at the bottom of the basement stairs into a closet. Well we ended up creating a pantry  and added two double swing Livingston pantry doors.  My dad took over the pantry and filled with canned spam, beans and what he called “war-pantry food” for a stay at home bunker. My grandfather loved spam and would have been proud that our bunker was filled with spam.  Gross!

Aren’t the doors amazing?

DIY Basement Flooring Ideas over Cement

This picture below is one of my favorite pictures of the basement. It shows the Masonite Livingston Doors, the Armstrong Ceiling Planks and the gorgeous Harvest Oak Vinyl Rigid Core Flooring by Select Surfaces.

If you are in the central Massachusetts area and need any remodeling / custom build home work done, Jim is your guy!

Be sure to catch all the basement renovation blog posts

 basement post #1 storage  | basement post #2 framing |  Basement Post #3 flooring | Basment Ceiling #4 | Basement ACCENT WALL #5

Basement Makeover Before and After (this post) #6

I cannot thank my wonderful sponsors enough for participating in this amazing basement makeover transformation. Thank you to Armstrong Ceilings (ceiling and accent wall) , Select Surfaces (flooring), Horner Millwork and Masonite (doors) and Sherwin Williams (paint). This post was sponsored and all opinions are 100% my own.