I want to raise part of the floor in the main area of my finished basement. I own a small brownstone in Carroll Gardens. The basement was finished before I bought the house this past spring. The ...

Q–Help! We are very eager to finish the basement of our 26-year-old house and make it into a family room. However, we have two cracks that run from ceiling to floor in our cement walls. When it rains, ...

Like many houses with raised basements, the first floor in Lindsey and Pinky Rohm's Uptown home served for years mainly as a catch-all for unneeded items. It was just a "dark mess with a pool table ...