Goomba38 wrote:
> jmcquown wrote:
>
>>> Atlanta homes often come with basements. But they're rare in my
>>> area, as well as in Virginia Beach where the water table was too
>>> high.
>> Some of the houses (circa 1900 through the 1930's) in midtown Memphis
>> have basements. Most houses built post WWII in that area don't.
>>
> In Atlanta new homes have even nicer basements than the older ones. I
> would kill to have some of them I've been in....
>
One set of grandparents had a great basement. When grandma remodeled her
kitchen some time in the late 1950's grandpa moved the entire old kitchen
down there. So she had two kitchens. She used the one in the basement for
canning and for cooking anything that was messy He also added a bathroom
with a shower stall so she couldn't complain when he came inside dirty from
working in the yard. The space was all finished; they could have used it as
a 2nd family room but never got around to furnishing it. (Come to think of
it, with the 2nd kitchen and bath it could have been an "apartment".)

Jill