Basement Finishing in Taylorsville
Split-levels, ramblers, and tri-levels from the 70s and 80s: Taylorsville's housing has more 'lower level' variety than almost anywhere in the valley.
Taylorsville filled out in the split-level era, which means many homes here don't have one basement; they have layers. A daylight lower family room, a true basement below that, sometimes both half-finished by different owners in different decades.
Multi-level homes reward a whole-house plan. Instead of treating each level as a separate project, we design the stack: which level hosts bedrooms, which takes the family room, where laundry serves best, and how light reaches each layer. Then we scope and build it as one coherent job.
Taylorsville projects
- Split-level lower-family-room rebuilds. The daylight level stripped of 1979 and rebuilt bright, open, and current.
- Deep-level conversions. Bottom floors turned into bedrooms with real egress, gyms, or serious storage.
- Whole-stack refinishes. Both lower levels planned and finished as one project, one style, one schedule.
- Wiring-era corrections. Bringing 70s-80s electrical up to modern capacity and code as part of the finish.
Split-level strategy
The split-level's gift is its daylight lower level: half-above-grade, real windows, natural family-room territory. Its challenge is the deepest level, which is often dim and underused. The winning pattern puts living space where the windows are, sleeping and utility below with egress and lighting engineered to compensate, and finishes that unify levels instead of letting each floor feel like a different house. We've got the playbook, and it was practically written for this city.
Taylorsville planning notes
Split-era homes get their vintage checked: panel capacity and wiring, egress in below-grade rooms, and the moisture story at the deepest level. We map the levels during the walkthrough and scope the stack as a system. City permits and inspections are coordinated inside the schedule.
Nearby communities we also serve
Murray , West Valley City , West Jordan , Kearns and the rest of our Salt Lake County service area. Full service details live on the basement finishing page.
Taylorsville basement questions
Our split-level's bottom floor feels like a cave. Fixable?
Usually, and dramatically. The formula: maximize the existing windows, add egress-sized wells where bedrooms go, layer recessed lighting in zones, choose light-reflective finishes, and open the stair sightlines where structure allows. Caves are a lighting-and-layout problem, and both are solvable.
The two lower levels were finished by different owners and clash badly. Options?
A unifying refinish: one flooring family, one trim standard, one paint palette, one lighting logic across both levels. Where budget forces phasing, we set the standard now and let the second level join it later on plan.
Is 1970s wiring something to worry about?
It's something to verify. Capacity, grounding, and connection quality vary by era and by who's touched it since. Our scoping includes an electrical review, and corrections get priced up front, because modern basements ask far more of circuits than 1975 imagined.
Can the lower family room handle a big screen and real sound?
The daylight level is made for it. We plan the media wall against sightlines and glare, run conduit and dedicated circuits before drywall, and treat the ceiling for sound so the bedrooms above stay peaceful. Movie night is a legitimate design goal.
Make every level earn its keep
Split, tri, or rambler: tell us what the lower floors do now, and we'll plan what they could.