ᐅ House with a basement or without?

So close together? That just makes your head spin, feeling neurotic, gloomy, and all that. In the end, there will still be people living there who buy stocks instead of the gas grill for the terrace... I wouldn’t want to build there.

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That’s why I wrote, for example,
whether it’s 10 x 10 or 8 x 12... I actually prefer the latter in the form of a mobile home, since I’m definitely not a fan of 10 x 10 city villas [emoji87]

ypg schrieb:
Although a sloped plot does not require creating a dark basement for additional storage space,

I wasn’t referring to a dark storage basement; it can certainly be a livable lower ground floor. My point is that you wouldn’t simply build stilts under a ground floor that, on the valley side, is elevated one story above the terrain. Instead, you would construct solid walls beneath it, creating usable space between them—regardless of how that space is used.

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11ant schrieb:
I wasn’t referring to a dark storage basement; it can definitely be a livable lower ground floor. The point is that on the valley side, where the ground floor is elevated one story above the terrain, you wouldn’t just set stilts under it—you’d have solid walls, between which you create (however used) actual rooms.

So, is that a basement or a lower ground floor?
(Always good to keep an eye on the thread title!)

Regards, Yvonne

ypg schrieb:
Well, is it a cellar or a basement?

It is unclear how important this distinction is to the original poster, as elsewhere they refer to a "souterrain" as a high cellar. I believe that in everyday language within the forum community, a basement is often called a cellar, just as a knee wall is called a dwarf wall, or a cross gable is referred to as a dormer.

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I see a clear tendency here towards building a basement (> 60%). That's less than my original estimate of 80%, but still a significant majority.

What I’m curious about is whether those who built without a basement are happy with their decision or if they later regretted it. And conversely, those who built with a basement—are they satisfied, or do they feel in hindsight that it was actually a waste of money?