The basement rec room was a postwar middle-class status symbol that emerged from the suburban housing boom of the 1950s and 60s. These spaces served double duty as unsupervised teen territory on ...

We gave interior designers Sasha Bikoff, Becky Carter, and Courtney McLeod a photo of the same basement rec room—then asked each of them to create a new design for it in their particular style, ...

The common theme for these first basement rec rooms was dark and rustic with macho sports overtones. Although women and children were welcome, there was a masculine aura about the place. A few decades ...

Can anyone point me in the direction of easy-to-understand requirements for a staircase leading from a first floor apartment to a basement rec room. We live on the first floor of a 4-family building ...

The Times takes a look at the practice of making condos more marketable by including “rec rooms,” or basement space that the city considers uninhabitable but which people often use as bedrooms. Cases ...

The 3-bedroom home with about 1,580 sq. ft. of living space sits on an irregular lot with large side yards that are surrounded by a wrought-iron fence. At the front, a covered front porch provided ...