How to Build a Nightclub in Your Basement

She would attend events like Burning Man and Ondalinda with friends and party through the night, but upon returning home she kept running into the same issue. “Everything closes just when you feel like you’re about to have a great, long evening out,” she says. “And things can get messy during the wee hours of the morning at clubs — if they’re even open.” The only solution, naturally, was to design a private nightclub in her own home.

It’s not the first project of its kind that she’s been involved with recent...