Beyond Basements

My wife and I had our basement finished by Beyond Basements a few years ago and absolutely love the results. David is a very low pressure kind of guy, which is refreshing in this industry (some of the other basement finishing companies out there made us feel like we were at a high pressure time share presentation when getting quotes). He worked with us to customize our basement to be exactly the way we wanted it. For example, we wanted high ceilings, but our low hanging duct work prevented that. He came up with the idea to move the ducts to be suspended in the trusses, allowing our ceiling height to be over 7 feet. A great idea that the competitors didn’t think of. He also built a custom cover for our sump pump so that we didn’t have to build a closet around it (it really helps the room feel bigger). As for his finishing system, we went with the hybrid of the MGO panels on the bottom half of our walls (so that they won’t need to be replaced if our basement floods again) and the acoustic paneling on the top half of the wall. I’m a musician, and the sound control of the paneling works so well that I can play late into the night when my wife and son are sleeping, and they don’t hear a thing. My favorite part of bringing someone into our basement is seeing the look on their face when I tell them the walls are covered in stretched fabric, and not painted drywall. They look that great. You really have to see David’s system. Highly recommended!

We had decided that drywall was not the way to go with our basement. So after doing some research we called Beyond-​Basements up. The owner, David, personally came out and all he did was talk about our design and his ideas. What a change from those other systems! All they did was try to get you to sign a contract. David left without even giving us a price. In fact it wasn’t until after many more meetings and design changes that he put together a final contract. Even then, at our request, he even emailed it to us. Talk about low pressure. Needless to say his designs were spot on and his workmanship is second to none. Our basement is (well was, see below) a beautiful, sound controlled, mold free basement that looks better than every other room in our house. This was 5 years ago. I just recently called him up to ask a question about a bath remodel I am doing (I live in Texas now so David can’t do it unfortunately and we have no basements here otherwise I would fly his company out to do it). His passion is so great and his willingness to share his knowledge is unsurpassed. He has another company Middlebrook Design/​Build (I hope I spelled the name right David!) that does regular construction work. We had some questions about our current contractor and wanted David’s opinion. He said he just recently decided to get on the social media bandwagon and asked if we would write a review of our experience with his Beyond-​Basements company. We were only too eager. So a few years late but better late than never.
George and Sandy
Austin TX, formerly Darien, IL

I have a very attractive soft wall fabric basement system from Beyond Basements in my house; installed by the previous owners. We need to make some changes to the system and the beyond basements crew were more than helpful in accommodating us even though some materials had become hard to find since they were installed years ago. The owner went out of his way to help us.