Super basements proliferate in Silicon Valley
MENLO PARK, CALIF.
When architect Roger Kohler began designing them years ago, basements weren't luxury statements.
He would tuck a subterranean guest room here, a mechanical room there. The lighting was only adequate, the ceilings sometimes just 7 feet high. You practically had to stoop while walking through: "It was grim," he said.
But it's dank and dark no more.
"You see the light in here? It's incredible," Kohler said, walking through a client's sunny - yes, sunny - basement, all 2,200 square feet of it, airy with 9 1/2-foot ceilings. There's a fitness center with a row of exercise machines, flat-screen TV and plush armchairs for hanging out. There's a window-lined living room and a spacious bedroom with glass doors opening onto a European-style courtyard that sits at the base of a 12-foot whitewashed retention wall.
Dig, dig, dig.
There was a time when California houses often sat on concrete slabs. Now basements are everywhere as land values skyrocket in Silicon Valley and around the Bay Area.
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