If you can reshare with all the measurements you will get far more help.

I'm hoping you've got 6 or 10mil plastic under the floor.

What does the person that designed the house suggest?

We need meausrements but honestly in a new build you had the opportunity to design this at the same time as the rest of the house . Is there access to the outside from the basement ? The windows look small why ? To much missing info . The bathroom should have been planned long before now .

Bedroom ... is there a secondary emergency egress door or window?

These should have been part of the design and building plans.

As a recommendation, begin with a sheet of graph paper. Place every fixed element within your basement. Include supporting posts, furnace, water heater, windows and doors. Then allow 6” within the foundation walls for insulation and studs. This is your available space

Using masking tape place rooms. This permits imaginary placement of furnishings and adjusting room size.
Below is a schematic of our former basement and a video link of the finished space. Hope this helps.

https://youtu.be/3FqMEqaf0-I?si=gdw0keWR6rvq1WiH

We will wait for more info and that to scale plan

You do not have freedom of designing anything here. You have multiple limitations. Plumbing locations, and main drain exit location will limit where anything plumbing will go. Egress requirements will limit the sleeping areas. What was done for moisture management on the exterior will limit it all being usable. Then there are electrical panel limitations, other building code limitations, and the biggest limitation of all: THE BUDGET.

You need a paid design professional to create something inside those limitations. The only one that will be able to be exceeded is the budget. And that is a given. It will all cost more than you want to spend.

"We would love some advice for creating a floor plan for the unfinished basement."

Answer questions and supply a lot more information. (Site plan, north arrow, first floor plan, exterior elevations, heating and cooling plans, structural plan, building section, etc.)

Pat, I hope you come back with more info so you can get some ideas. Without really knowing how big the space truly is, it is hard to help. That said I see you have a bathroom roughed in, I assume, based on the plan so that is good. We have a walkout basement that has a lot of what you want and opted for the bedroom to be on one side, bathroom middle kind of like yours, and the rec room the other. We have an air hockey table in ours as well as a TV area and home gym.

Yes dimensions are needed and the bedroom egress is critical. You are now adding a bedroom and bath to the home - are you on septic or town drainage? We would definitely need more specific dimesnions. In my area, the framing for basements has increased to 2 x 6 because of the required insulation value, so whatever you measure will decrease by that amount.

I would want to configure the bathroom first, then decide what size bed you want and configure the bedroom base don egress, then the pool table area. If using a regulation stick, you will need roughly 13 x 16 for a 7ft table and 13 1/2 x 17 for an 8ft table ( you can go smaller if using a short cue ) .

You can draw the basement onto several pieces of graph paper, then cut out pieces to represent the bed, pool table, couch, etc and move them around to see what kind of flow you can come up with.

Good luck!

THanksgiving so we will wait for info now that the week end is almost over please send the paln to scale all measurements clearly marked use graph paper and post here i jpeg format in a comment

Thanks for all of your advice. I understand that it is difficult to come up with a plan with no dimensions. This is a bungalow, the square footage of the main floor is 2690 feet. There is a rough in for the bathroom. The ceilings are 10 feet. We just wanted some general ideas as to what we could do. I like the graph paper idea and will start there.there.

While waiting for measurements and specifics, here are some inspiration photos that show how to use furnisings to create zones in a basement.

TV and eating zone;

Chan Basement · More Info

Family Room, Home Theater and Bar · More Info

If you want exercise equipment to face TV, then create a middle zone between TV and game table area.

Zone for table games and snack/beverage prep. Note budget friendly exposed celing:

Finished Basement · More Info

Or separate zone for playing cards, board games:

Custom Home · More Info

8 days is a long time to wait for measurements that are a must for any help.

Agree with Geyser. Lots of constraints here. Who designed your new build, and why didn't you have them layout this space as part of the overall design?

Pat, it is hard for people to give any kind of feedback without basic measurements. We can’t tell how big anything is to give advice. It is clearly a big space and there is lots that can be done with it but the location of the bathroom kind of makes it tricky as it is right in the middle. You will likely want a guest room to be somewhat near it but that may cut off other areas and make flow funny. But again with some measurements it will be easier to understand

She may be busy working on graph paper countless hours trying to figure out a layout on her own. Watch out for beams, columns and ducts.

Hello everyone, yes I have been busy. Thanks for all of the advice. We move into our new home in April and will live with the space until the next winter. We will hire professionals to complete the job . I just wanted ideas, not plans. Thanks again.

So you do not want help at all but the bonus is you have time to get some stuff in place in that bseamnt before April . Listen to some advice given here as to egress windows any plumbing needs a lot can be done at this stage that will be mega expensive later . Ideas always come with actual facts thta need to be considered . So take the info given or not totally up to you . If you ever post again things like the fact that the house is not built yet would have been helpful. Good luck with the new house BTW

I vote for the wine cellar.

Good idea.

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We just don' t have enough information. Are you looking for suggestions like put the bedroom to the far left and family room as you come down the stairs??? Planning a new build and knowing within a year you will finish the basement by putting in a bathroom and a bedroom w/o the plumbing in place when you poured the foundation and an egress window before landscaping and walls were built makes no sense financially or living with the mess and dust retro fitting into cement this will cause. Having just put in an egress window into a 70s ranch I can tell you its been a PITB. What contractor didn't advise you about footings/gas lines/plumbing hooks ups now save you time/dust/money later??!!