Welcome to Making a Bar, where I give my dungeon-esque downstairs a DIY glow-up. First up: What a difference a little color makes.

Basement floor paint is one of the easiest and most affordable options for renovating the basement. Oil-based paints create a hard, shiny finish that covers slight surface imperfections and can be ...

If not, just giving them a coat of fresh paint can be life-changing. Hildreth recalls painting the basement laundry room floor of one of his first places after college in red, and taking the red ...