Hello everyone,
let’s be honest! When building your dream home, did you make an irreversible, serious mistake by skipping the basement and now regret it? I’m looking for your experiences and reasons why that is, so I don’t make the same mistake myself, as I’m currently deciding whether to build with or without a basement.
let’s be honest! When building your dream home, did you make an irreversible, serious mistake by skipping the basement and now regret it? I’m looking for your experiences and reasons why that is, so I don’t make the same mistake myself, as I’m currently deciding whether to build with or without a basement.
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nasenmann15 Oct 2015 14:08f-pNo schrieb:
Do I miss having a basement? Sometimes – especially when I see our overcrowded utility room (currently still storing bags of concrete and equipment for the irrigation system).
However, I think this will change over the next 2 years. Once we have our garden shed, things like patio furniture, bicycles, the large gas grill and small charcoal grill, plant trays, future lawn mower, etc., can be stored there over the winter.These are just temporary items that will be sorted out over time. I bet if you had a basement, the bags of concrete and so on would be there now and forever. Nothing lasts longer than temporary solutions. Always.
My utility room looked like Dresden in 1945 at first. No garden shed yet and the garage still unfinished. By now, it’s all manageable.
nasenmann schrieb:
They are only temporary things that will eventually be gone. I bet if you had a basement, the concrete bags and so on would be stored there now and forever. I agree – the utility room has already cleared out a bit over the past two weeks. No, the concrete bags are not meant to be stored there indefinitely. I need the concrete for setting fence posts (fence as fall protection), and this should (hopefully) be used up this year. In fact, I still need to buy quite a bit more.
Since I have an existing building with a basement, I didn’t have to make that decision. But I’m not really sure where I would sensibly store and operate my tools and the more than 10 small DIY machines I’ve accumulated over time (from a rotary hammer to a circular saw). The basement also includes the following rooms: laundry room, boiler room plus space for the oil tanks, storage cellar (mainly for beverage crates and empties, some extra garden chairs that are only needed when guests come in larger numbers, Christmas decorations, etc.). One room is actually still unused; the previous owner had planned it as a party basement but never converted it. Maybe I’ll turn it into a larger workshop, which would free up the smaller room I’m currently using for that purpose. I’m sure I’ll find a use for that one as well.
A colleague told me today about a friend who, as a single person, built a house without a basement. Now he’s with a partner, and the house has become so full that it’s almost impossible to get to the desk in the office because of all the books. And they don’t have children!
One of my brothers is also currently building a new house with a basement. There are two larger rooms with living space quality, and the rest is planned for heating, ventilation system, laundry room, and a storage room.
A colleague told me today about a friend who, as a single person, built a house without a basement. Now he’s with a partner, and the house has become so full that it’s almost impossible to get to the desk in the office because of all the books. And they don’t have children!
One of my brothers is also currently building a new house with a basement. There are two larger rooms with living space quality, and the rest is planned for heating, ventilation system, laundry room, and a storage room.
FrankH schrieb:
The more than 10 small DIY power tools we have accumulated over time (from rotary hammers to circular saws)
--> are stored in the garage/extension, because those tools create dust and dirt that we don’t want inside the house anyway.
Laundry room,
--> The washing machine goes in the bathroom, the dryer goes in the walk-in closet if there is space.
I already feel frustrated thinking about having to keep the washing machine in the basement starting in January at the rental house, and having to carry dirty and clean laundry up and down two floors every time.
Storage cellar (mainly for crates of drinks and empty bottles),
---> I really wouldn’t want to have to go down there all the time. I can already imagine bottles piling up over half a year because nobody ever remembers to bring them up before grocery shopping.
A colleague told me today about a friend who, as a single person, built a house without a basement. Now he is living with a partner, and the house is suddenly so full that you can barely reach the desk in the office because of all the books.
---> When two households become one, it inevitably gets cluttered. If no one wants to part with anything, it gets even more crowded.S
Sebastian7915 Oct 2015 17:43You can justify anything – even the absence of a basement.
Bautraum201515 Oct 2015 17:43To me, this argument against having a basement sounds very much like a defense of a decision not to include one.
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