Designer Andrew Kotchen, a principal at Workshop/APD, is working on a 5,000-square-foot Nantucket abode that will have a 10,000-square-foot basement with a basketball court, garage, bedrooms and a wellness space. “The possibilities are endless,” says Stephen Cheney, owner of Cheney Custom Homes, who is currently constructing a roughly 16,000-square-foot home and guest home with a 5,600-square-foot “bunker” below for a bowling alley, 3-D golf simulator, and spa.īasements can dwarf homes above. Some areas allow a footprint covering only 2 percent of the property. The island of Nantucket, just 14 miles long and 3.5 miles wide, limits home sizes with more than 20 zoning districts. And the Beverly Hills Planning Commission is now mired in a down-and-dirty basement brouhaha. In Aspen, a resident sued the city for permitting a neighbour’s two-story basement, alleging excessive noise and dust. Still, some towns have cracked down on the chic crypts, worried about unsettling topography and having truckloads of excavated dirt roll through residential streets. She says the prior owner, by contrast, had done little to maximise the basement, which was “absolutely heinous.” (“It had wine storage, not to be confused with a wine cellar,” she says.) The resulting basement has guest suites, a gym with white oak floors, a 12-person hot tub and an “absurdly large” steam room, she says. McDavid says the excavation for her parent’s 4,000-square-foot Aspen basement added about a year to the three-year renovation, since workers dug underneath the home and into a mountainside. “Twenty years ago, basements were the ‘B word.’” Stern Architects, who designs basements with luxe finishes. “Down is the new up,” says Randy Correll, partner at Robert A.M. To sidestep subterranean gloom, builders usher in natural light via grand staircases or skylights cut into the ground above. The McBasements of today have bars, bowling alleys, pools, climbing walls and whiskey-tasting rooms. among property owners facing restrictions on mansion sizes above ground. Now, there is a cellars market in the U.S. Wealthy Londoners have long built basements reaching two, three, and even four stories below ground. “When you walk into a home, if all the magic is just within the first few steps, that’s no fun.” McDavid, who ultimately blew out her parents’ basement to more than double its size. McDavid, who led the renovation, envisioned an expansive basement with a world-class gym, guest suites and hotel-caliber spa for her parents, former college track star Stacie McDavid, and David McDavid, a former owner of the Dallas Mavericks and car-dealership mogul. When Sterling McDavid’s parents bought a roughly 9,000-square-foot home on Aspen’s Red Mountain, the 33-year-old interior designer directed the architect and contractors to start digging.
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