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Article: Basement system adds living space in a hurry
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- December 26, 2004
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Basements are hot. And a lot of homeowners are cool with that.
All across the "basement belt" -- from Boston to Atlanta and on
west to Kansas City -- families are finding basements are the
solution in the hunt for a few hundred square feet of extra living
space.
One family life researcher says that basement re-dos offer
consumers the best of several worlds -- more living space and a place
for the family (especially teenagers) to find privacy.
"Parents don't want or need to be in their kids' faces all the
time, but they can't let kids go unsupervised," says Stephanie
Coontz, director of research for the New York-based Council for
Contemporary Families. "Basements are part of the answer for ...