A legal bedroom needs two proper forms of egress where are Windows in your plan?

Yes absolutely. The basement has two smaller windows the location is indicated on the sketch. One is above the laundry tub. The other is along 23' 2" wall which is the back wall of the home. We will be either installing a new window or enlarging an existing one to meet the Local Egress Requirements for Ontario.

See image above for rough location of windows. Neither are egress.

Pay a Professional Designer or architect. This is beyond asking about a paint color or drapes. You will need professional drawings for proper permitting.

Who is the bedroom for?

@Marij

Yes I realize that a professional designer will be involved. Im just trying to get a few ideas that we go into designer mode with a few options in hand.

Everything you have there is in the wrong place. The window which you will be making a bedroom it is in the wrong place. The existing bathroom you have also in the wrong place if you want to have a 36x60" shower. By the time you put a bedroom and a closet and frame your bathroom out, you left with a little space in front of your utility room. By the time this is done and over with you will end up with a cramped up bedroom and everything else.

We just finished the layout stage of our basement renovation. Our basement is almost exact the same size as yours so I'm very interested in seeing your progress!

We chewed on plans and ideas for more than a year. We only came up with a layout we both feel good with once we finally figured out what we really want to use the basement for and what should be possible in the future.

Our house is one bedroom short for our family so we really need a bedroom or sleeping area in the basement. Our house only has one bathroom (one toilet) for 5 people so we need an extra bathroom too. We have an exit to the garden in the basement so we wanted to have some kind of mudroom, laundry and mechanical room needed to stay downstairs too.

First we thought of making a bedroom for or oldest son. But the square footage we have to work with is not big and making a bedroom, bathroom, mudroom and mechanical room would divide the space in a lot of little rooms and a hallway which takes in space as well. Furthermore, in this area basements are typically used for recreational functions. So we fear the resale value of our house might decrease with no obvious recreational space down there.

We decided to turn the basement into an open concept bedroom/office for ourselves and have the bathroom for ourselves too. This way the basement will be our own little studio, the kids will each have a bedroom and one bathroom upstairs. When the time comes that our kids move out, we can simply take our bed out of the basement and replace it with a couch or two to turn it into a recreation room.

I hope this can help in some way! Maybe you too can combine the functions of the rooms you want, like: bathroom/laundry or recreation room/guestroom ?

This is roughly the new layout of our basement, the dimensions of stairs and doors are a bit off but you'll get the idea :)

What did you end up doing with your basement?