Ashlyn is one of Forbes Home's in-house writers and a former civil engineer-turned content writer with over six years experience. Until recently, Ashlyn focused on creating content for Forbes Home as ...

Geraldine has over a decade of experience writing within the home improvement sector. Additionally, she has unique first-hand renovation experience as the previous owner of a house-flipping business.

When is a basement not really a basement? When it`s a walkout basement. Instead of a dark, dingy room below ground level, a basement with doors and standard-size windows can be a bright, sunny room ...