New Year, New Space! If one of your resolutions is to finally turn your basement from creepy to creative, from hollow to holistic, or from a dungeon to a dance floor, we've scoured Pinterest (our inspiration station) to compile some of our favorite basement ideas that'll help you upgrade and finally renovate to a retreat.

Whether you want to turn your basement into a theater, a gym, a playroom for the kids, an at home office, or a bar, one thing stays consistent - you have to take the stairs to get there. Here's a couple of ways you can get creative with the path downstairs...

1. Follow the Reader: Turn your staircase into a bookshelf.

2. Never whine about space to put your wine: Turn your staircase into a wine rack.

3. And this is probably our favorite... Why step down when you can slide down? Turn your stairs into a slide like this!

or like this...

or sweet swirling trap doors, like this!

4. Like the idea of secret doors? Hide your furnace with a bookshelf...

5. Or hey, go big and hide an entire room with a bookshelf...

6. Build a hideaway room to zen out...

7. Have lots of guests? Create an extra room by adding a pull-out bed below your basement office...

8. Thinking more about a downstairs bar? Build it with reclaimed wood...

9. Use wine cork to touch up the bar with a dartboard that won't end with holes in your wall...

10. Now that we have you in play mode... slide into this basement game room...

11. Jump the playfulness up to trampoline floor (more for the kids, but come on you'd use it too right?)

12. Skate park anyone?

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