David and Kerstin Adelman often have her family from overseas visiting for long periods, so they want to remodel their unfinished basement creating additional living space as a guest suite and family room. Host Chip Wade and crew have a design challenge at hand so that David, an avid homebrewer, will not have to sacrifice an area for his hobby in the process. When Level One was asked to partner in another episode, Thom and Brian, who are craft beer lovers, jumped on the opportunity to lend their skills to execute and manage this remodeling project. It’s hard to decide on whether the state of the art, electric brewing kitchen or massive glass-panel projection TV window added to open the space up is their favorite design feature in this spectacular project. Custom milled wood paneling throughout adds warmth to this modern and vibrantly designed basement.

Back from a 6-year stay in Alaska, Beth, Patrick, and their four children had become accustomed to open space and have outgrown their segmented floor plan. Host Chip Wade and design crew want to give Beth a great room where she can oversee the kids from her kitchen, “the command center.” All partition walls were removed within the living space, which required structural modifications. Level One tackled the most substantial beam they’d ever worked with before. The kitchen is repositioned to face both the living room and the study. A custom fire pizza oven has walls flanked with reclaimed wood from an old barn to give it a sense of warmth and history.