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There’s a New Menace Stalking Suburbia. Meet the McBasement.

Posted on 10/16/22 at 9:25 pm
Posted by hikingfan
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Posted on 10/16/22 at 9:25 pm
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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.

L?imited by zoning above ground, Ms. 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.

“I love a basement,” says Ms. McDavid, who ultimately blew out her parents’ basement to more than double its size. “When you walk into a home, if all the magic is just within the first few steps, that’s no fun.”

Wealthy Londoners have long built basements reaching two, three, and even four stories below ground. Now, there is a cellars market in the U.S. among property owners facing restrictions on mansion sizes above ground. The McBasements of today have bars, bowling alleys, pools, climbing walls and whiskey-tasting rooms. To sidestep subterranean gloom, builders usher in natural light via grand staircases or skylights cut into the ground above.

“Down is the new up,” says Randy Correll, partner at Robert A.M. Stern Architects, who designs basements with luxe finishes. “Twenty years ago, basements were the ‘B word.’”

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Ms. 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. 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. “You feel like you’re in a luxury cave.”

She says the prior owner, by contrast, had done little to maximize the basement, which was “absolutely heinous.” (“It had wine storage, not to be confused with a wine cellar,” she says.)

Still, some towns have cracked down on the chic crypts, worried about unsettling topography and having truckloads of excavated dirt roll through residential streets. In Aspen, a resident sued the city for permitting a neighbor’s two-story basement, alleging excessive noise and dust. Aspen now limits basements to one level. And the Beverly Hills Planning Commission is now mired in a down-and-dirty basement brouhaha.

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Posted by frequent flyer
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Member since Jul 2021
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Posted on 10/16/22 at 9:27 pm to
Like an ant hill.
Posted by Earnest_P
Member since Aug 2021
3520 posts
Posted on 10/16/22 at 9:28 pm to
This is clearly apocalypse prep.
Posted by Oates Mustache
Member since Oct 2011
22073 posts
Posted on 10/16/22 at 9:29 pm to
Do that in Louisiana, drown.
Posted by Jyrdis
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Posted on 10/16/22 at 9:32 pm to
quote:

David McDavid


Posted by TigerIron
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Posted on 10/16/22 at 9:32 pm to
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This post was edited on 11/18/22 at 11:20 am
Posted by Kafka
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Member since Jul 2007
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Posted on 10/16/22 at 9:36 pm to
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former college track star Stacie McDavid, and David McDavid, a former owner of the Dallas Mavericks and car-dealership mogul
they IDed him as a tycoon and felt they had to ID her too, b/c equity. All they could come up with was "former college track star"
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Sterling McDavid
Who names their daughter Sterling?

Were they preparirng her for the stripper pole?
Posted by Shiftyplus1
Regret nothing that made you smile
Member since Oct 2005
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Posted on 10/16/22 at 9:37 pm to
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She says the prior owner, by contrast, had done little to maximize the basement, which was “absolutely heinous.” (“It had wine storage, not to be confused with a wine cellar,” she says.)


I'll bet she loves to speak with the manager
Posted by LSUFanHouston
NOLA
Member since Jul 2009
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Posted on 10/16/22 at 9:37 pm to
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there is a cellars marke


Upvote
Posted by East Coast Band
Member since Nov 2010
62806 posts
Posted on 10/16/22 at 9:45 pm to
You'd figure the green folks would not object to multi level basements.
You barely have to heat and cool them at any point of the year. Massive power savings
Posted by Auburn80
Backwater, TN
Member since Nov 2017
7527 posts
Posted on 10/16/22 at 9:45 pm to
So, 9000 sq ft was not enough to fit her parents in?
Posted by SlapahoeTribe
Tiger Nation
Member since Jul 2012
12104 posts
Posted on 10/16/22 at 9:45 pm to
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In Aspen, a resident sued the city for permitting a neighbor’s two-story basement, alleging excessive noise and dust. Aspen now limits basements to one level.

frick all that.

It’s a basement, you can’t even see the fricker and people want to tell you that it’s not allowed.

People these days.

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having truckloads of excavated dirt roll through residential streets.
Funny how people always seem to bring this shite up after they’ve built their homes.
This post was edited on 10/16/22 at 9:47 pm
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
124323 posts
Posted on 10/16/22 at 9:47 pm to
Basements are cool as hell. I’ve always loved them. Shame we can’t have them down here.
Posted by BuckyCheese
Member since Jan 2015
49443 posts
Posted on 10/16/22 at 9:47 pm to
Seeing as Aspen in the mountains, they probably need to practically blast that basement out of solid rock so I can kinda see the complaints if that is the case.
Posted by Zappas Stache
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Member since Apr 2009
38723 posts
Posted on 10/16/22 at 9:50 pm to
Stacie McDavid, pretty hot for being in her mid 60s

Posted by teke184
Zachary, LA
Member since Jan 2007
95781 posts
Posted on 10/16/22 at 9:52 pm to
I think they have been playing a bit too much Fallout Shelter.

They need to be careful of mole rat attacks.
Posted by sqerty
AP
Member since May 2022
5013 posts
Posted on 10/16/22 at 10:53 pm to
9k sq/ft = OT Tiny House
Posted by SuperOcean
Member since Jun 2022
3243 posts
Posted on 10/17/22 at 6:44 am to
Go to Jekyll Island and many of the houses ( of the Barron's of the day) have basements . With a 5 to 6 ft water table. The houses were designed by their architects in ..Chi NYC
Posted by Lone Wolf McQuade
Member since Sep 2022
207 posts
Posted on 10/17/22 at 6:46 am to
That way the kids never move out.
Posted by AUCE05
Member since Dec 2009
42568 posts
Posted on 10/17/22 at 6:47 am to
There is nothing cookie cutter about a 9000 sf home.
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