Finished basement in West Chester, PA with a wet bar, dark cabinets, shiplap wall, and drum chandeliers

Basement Finishing

Basement bars and kitchenettes in Lancaster and Chester County, PA

The bar is the reason a lot of basements get finished in the first place. A wet bar with a sink, a beverage refrigerator, cabinets with glass doors and lights, a stone counter with stools, and a wall behind it that makes it a place: shiplap, tile, stone. We have built them in West Chester and the Poconos.

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What Goes Into a Basement Bar

Base cabinets with a sink and a faucet, the drain tied into the basement bath’s line or an ejector pit.
A beverage refrigerator, a wine cooler, an ice maker if there is a drain, each on its own circuit.
Upper cabinets with glass doors and interior lighting, or open shelves, and a tile or stone backsplash.
A counter in quartz or stone, at bar height with an overhang for stools, or at counter height to match a kitchen.
Lighting: pendants over the bar, under-cabinet lights, and a dimmer.
The wall behind it: shiplap, a stone veneer, a mirror, or open shelves for the bottles.

Bar or Kitchenette

A bar has a sink and cold storage. A kitchenette adds a cooktop or a range and a full-size refrigerator, and that turns the basement into a suite, with the zoning questions a suite raises, which our in-law suite page covers. We build both and we ask early which one it is.

Bars We Have Built

The West Chester bar below is dark cabinets under a white shiplap wall with drum chandeliers over the counter, beside a full bath. The Poconos bar is gray-brown cabinets with lighted glass uppers, a marble-tile backsplash, and a black built-in with gold mesh doors across the room.

Projects

Bars We Have Built

Finished basement in West Chester PA with a wet bar, dark cabinets, shiplap wall, wood-look floor, and drum chandeliers

Finished basement with wet bar and bathroomWest Chester, PA

Finished basement in Frazer PA with a built-in wall unit around the TV, lit display cabinets, and a sectional sofa

Finished basement with built-in wall unitFrazer, PA

Kitchen bar in Chester Springs PA with a gray cabinet, hanging stemware rack, wine cooler, and multicolor tile backsplash

Kitchen bar, foyer ceiling, and mudroom lockersChester Springs, PA

Questions

Questions We Get

Does a basement bar sink need an ejector pump?

If the sewer line leaves the house above the slab, yes, and the sink drains to the same pit as a basement bath. If there is a gravity line, it drains like any sink. We find out on the first visit.

Can a bar have an ice maker?

Yes, with a water line and a drain. It is the appliance people are gladdest they added.

Bar height or counter height?

Bar height with stools is the social answer and hides the sink. Counter height matches a kitchenette and works with regular chairs. The room usually decides.

Process

How We Work

We visit, measure, and talk through the scope before anything is priced.
You get a written proposal, and we build to it.
Where the work needs a permit, we walk you through it every step: the application, the drawings the township asks for, and the inspections.
We are on site from the first day to the last, and the house stays clean while we work.
We walk the finished job with you, fix anything on the list, and clean up.

Basement Finishing

More Kinds of Basements

Basement Family Rooms and Media RoomsThe big room downstairs: framed, insulated, lit, and finished to the same standard as upstairs, with the TV wall built in.Basement BathroomsA full bath downstairs, with the drain solved: a gravity line, an ejector pit, or a macerating toilet, chosen by the house.Basement Bedrooms, Offices, and GymsA bedroom with its egress window, a quiet office, a gym with the right floor, framed into the basement plan.Walkout and Daylight BasementsA basement with a door to the yard or full-size windows is a floor of the house waiting to be finished, and the ones we most want to build.Partial and Small Basement FinishesOne room done right, with the rest left for storage and the mechanicals, when the whole basement is more than you need.All basement finishingThe service page, with the full scope and every project.

Service area

Where We Work

Based in Christiana, we work across Lancaster County and Chester County.

Lancaster County

Christiana
Gap
Quarryville
Strasburg
Lancaster

Chester County

Parkesburg
Coatesville
West Chester
Kennett Square
Downingtown
Malvern
Chester Springs
Frazer

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