Hm yes, well, I was thinking about good accessibility because without a basement, something inevitably moves up to the attic. And hauling a Life Fitness cross trainer (not some thing from the hardware store) up there isn’t that easy.. Or maybe I’m just worrying too much about it..
Of course, you are right when you think about good connection to the upper floor. That’s what a staircase is for. And I am not a fan of this staircase either. But you also have to look at the proportionality: if you build yourself a palace where the staircase is also supposed to have a show effect. Then it has a minimum width of 1.20 meters and stands impressively in the hallway, impossible to overlook. Maybe with a landing or an imposing spiral... Or you build for 5 people who all have their bedrooms upstairs and therefore also use the staircase several times a day. Then it may run straight and also have at least one meter width. Then there are those who need to go from the upper floor to the basement, so they have to use two staircases, for example when doing laundry, and that several times a day. The same applies as in the previous example. To save space, a spiral may be given at the start or end, because then it integrates better into the floor plan. Those who have even less space to spare take the double spiral, which can of course be designed individually wider or longer. There are calculators for this or, as an example for minimum requirements, Kerstin’s ( ) drawing here:
And then there are those who use that staircase twice a week because they actually built a bungalow to avoid stairs altogether. If there is no large storage space on the ground floor, then a fixed staircase in the bungalow is an option, like Karsten ( ) has. He or his wife can quickly grab the thick jacket or garden chair from above and doesn’t burden themselves. It doesn’t matter whether it leads to the basement or the attic: the only rule is that the attic must be built anyway, the basement costs extra.
Where you or your family see yourselves now, you have to balance. At least it should be clear to you that the staircase, even if your child will walk it daily at some point or you constantly forget something upstairs, will play a subordinate role, because life can be lived entirely on the main level ground floor.
I would also advise against planning a moving plan already with the house construction. The current children’s room usually cannot replace the sports room and vice versa. In a bungalow, you can wonderfully create two zonings for parents/children. Added to that is a living area (kitchen, dining, living room) and a utility area (hobby, sports, office and utility room/freezer).
For your bungalow, I would see something like this or similar: To enter in Google: nurda studiohaus 2002 Danwood perfekt 135 danwood perfekt 166 danwood brave 176 so a bungalow where a small area upstairs is still expanded and this is also basically planned right from the start, so that you can fall back on a roof shape that, with a third gable, also offers cheap and full-fledged windows as well as pleasant walls upstairs.
Regarding the cross trainer, regardless of how expensive it is, I can only ask: how long have you had it? How often do you use it? How often will you (still) use it in the house? I’m not telling anyone anything new when I say: a sports device is more perishable than the unnecessary pounds are burned off. An exception: you have been training with it for years for specific athletic performances because the weather outside is too bad for running or cycling. There are more effective sports exercises that you can do on a small yoga mat with your own weight and dynamics, possibly additionally with small dumbbells... but that is probably a topic for another forum.
Well, we have the thing and it has to go somewhere.. It’s also used incidentally. And if only as a clothes rack - lol..
Of course, you can also build the house around a perishable item. Once the house is built, the item certainly will not move along. Let go!!!! One has to anyway... “one” doesn’t move with unnecessary stuff.