When framing your basement, you may be wondering how to cover those basement poles? Basement poles are also referred to as "lally columns", especially in the UK. Hey, laugh if you want to, its always a basement pole to me.
Deciding what to do with those support poles can be a tricky decision. Today I want share with you how I framed the support poles in my basement. Hopefully this will give you some ideas and prevent any future "pole regret".
In my case I had two basement support poles to design around. One was right smack in the middle of what was going to be my living room area and the other was just inside the doorway of my soon to be work-shop / hobby room. [Read more...]