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Los Angeles Times / Mark Boster
Shaun Bornstein works in the airy kitchen. The stairs lead from the kitchen up to the master suite.

SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- Consider all the potential architectural solutions for modern living, and the split-level house hardly seems an obvious candidate -- not to the average person who summons the image of some postwar dwelling that appears half-sunken in quicksand, its tiny basement windows barely poking aboveground, the front door opening to dual sets of stairs and the immediate puzzle: Do I go up? Or do I go down?