Silent Rivers Design + Build, Clive, Iowa, silentrivers.com
Project name: Basement Mixology
Location: West Des Moines, Iowa
Square footage: 1,100
Cost: $180,000
The clients wanted to create a 1,000-bottle wine cel-
lar and a home theater room while creating a space they
could share with friends and family. The project grew into
a connected series of spaces. Linkages and sight lines, as well as
sensitive use of color and material, helped promote interaction.
The plan centers around a redefined hearth room. A new fireplace
subdivides the once cavernous room into useful proportions. The
theater room is highlighted by a valance evocative of a theater
marquee, which continues across the bar transition and becomes
an arch that leads the eye into the wine tasting room and beyond
to the wine cellar. Double-frame walls, furring, foam insulation
and sound isolation gypsum board work together on all sides of
the theater for sound isolation.
SILVER: Daniel Contelmo Architects,
Poughkeepsie, N.Y., dtcarchitects.com,
BRONZE: Finished Basement Co., Minneapolis,
finishedbasement.com
BRONZE: Foster Remodeling, Lorton, Va.,
fosterremodeling.com
GOLD
Finished Basement
Photo: Silent Rivers Design + Build
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