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Evening Standard
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Martin Robinson

Comment: 'The air building trend brings hope to us basement dwellers'

We are vampires. My young family sleeps in the basement rooms of our flat, which takes up the bottom two floors of a Victorian terrace.

Down in the basement it is cool and dark, which is lovely in “summer” but horrid in winter. It is quiet, though; womb-like often. Dehumidifiers and air filters ward off worries of damp and mould down there, but I do worry if sleeping in the basement is psychologically disturbing.

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