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When developing your basement there are considerations you should keep in mind. For rooms that you wish to be allocated as bedrooms, you will require egress in case of an emergency.

You will need a smoke detector located in a central area close to the bedrooms or in a bedroom hall  or basement corridor. In any case a smoke detector should be installed in the basement.

A family or games room is perfect for the basement area, and there is not a teenager alive that does not migrate to the basement to get that much needed 12 hours of sleep between midnight and noon.

Your design can include trim work, cabinetry or even a cozy fireplace with mantel.

Someone in 1970 told your dad and mine that we needed access to the plumbing and heating pipes of the basement level and just in case we needed to run speaker wires and other stuff, we should use a panelized ceiling. If this is true then why do we not have panelized ceiling on the main floor of two story home? In jest I make this statement, the choice should be for other reasons other then access, you will loose 3-5 inches in height, and on a basement with with seven foot eight inch high ceiling that is a lot. Panelized T-bar ceiling have there place and I believe can look as good a anything else, but they do say "office and basement" when a textured drywall ceiling has the feel of a main floor.

Moisture is a villain, So ensure proper procedures are followed before  beginning to develop the space.