Bonus rooms offer the chance to do a little something different, not just with the functionality of your home but also with its design. To ensure your space feels like a fun departure from the rest of ...

"Bonus room" is a term in the real estate business coined in the early '90s. Although debate is still going on as to what it actually means, usually the phrase describes an extra space which can't be ...

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The home office, it seems, is going the way of the fax machine. Interior designers say families are finding more inventive uses for their homes' extra little rooms - optimistically called "bonus rooms ...

Turning an unfinished basement or bonus room (such as the attic) into a living area is a major remodeling project that involves hundreds of details. Before you get started, take stock of the space and ...

Now becoming the new norm, bonus rooms are typically a space in the home that is — as we say in Louisiana — lagniappe. Most new builds have incorporated the bonus room phenomena with an ...

Much like technology, home design targeted at the mass consumer really didn’t evolve until the end of the last century. “It was around the late ’90s that bonus rooms really started to become a major ...

You’d be hard pressed today to find a newer home in Williamson County that doesn’t have a bonus room. The lofty space usually tucked away upstairs or over the garage is wonderful additional square ...

A study of developers’ designs found changes in several areas of luxury homes in the past several years. Only 1 to 2 percent of buyers choose new construction each year, and fewer than 6 percent of ...

On Tuesday, a developer presented a change to the Meridian City Council — he hoped to add a bonus room to one-third of new homes in a retirement community. The neighbors turned out to protest. The ...

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