Built without a basement & regretted?

1. I would like to have the recipe for the baked apple jam! 2. The decision to have a basement or not is something everyone has to decide for themselves! Our sauna is in the main bathroom, the utility room is big enough for us BUT our children are grown up and almost ready to leave the nest. How does your decision look now, D3N7S? There have been enough arguments to read here.

I will try to summarize what I have read.

In my opinion, there are several factors that play a role in making a decision for or against a basement:
- Land prices (the more you pay per square meter, the more the additional costs for the basement are relativized - ergo: the higher the land price, the more sense "vertical" building makes)
- Soil condition/soil moisture (here the costs can possibly explode (white tank, etc.))
- Slope location - can possibly create additional living space from the basement - in particular you have to include the slope in the planning anyway (note: different regulations apply for a residential basement than for a utility basement)
- Use of basement rooms 1 - those who have a specific use for the rooms (office/sauna/fitness) and actually implement it accordingly in the end (not just going into the fitness room once a month) can benefit from a basement
- Use of basement rooms 2 - a workshop or similar always brings noise and dirt. If you want something like that, you outsource it (e.g. behind the garage) or move it to the basement - however, here too a regular use applies rather than the "one-time" turning of screws.
- Storage options are, in my opinion, only secondary - sure you have a lot of space but over time you might also clutter it up (I have the space, so I don’t have to dispose of it) - but if I actually have space for it, I can store things like wheels, bicycles, ski equipment or even canned goods (greetings ), etc. there

So far my list of decision factors.

Looking at this, the following reasons result for me regarding our decision against a basement:
- Land price - ambitious, but would not have been decisive
- Soil condition - we would have needed a white tank
- Slope location - yes, but we had a 50/50 plot and built on the flat part - saved us the costs for excavation + disposal/deposit fees
- Use of basement rooms 1 - office/guest room is upstairs, sauna not planned, fitness would be nice (but how often would I actually use it?)
- Use of basement rooms 2 - workshop - I am, was and will never be a big tinkerer (that also fits my career choice )
- Storage options - certainly it would be nice if, but here the cost/benefit ratio would no longer fit. Once we have the garden shed, this problem should be solved. I mostly move such storage to the attic now. Only the 40 euros per year per car storage fee for tires bothers me a bit - but I no longer have to lug the tires around for the change (my back thanks me)

Unfortunately, we don't like pumpkins...
But I can gladly give you the recipe for the baked apple jam... This is eaten here by the spoonful most of all...

I’d gladly take the recipe.

We love pumpkin – pumpkin puree or pumpkin soup.
But who could have expected that 6 pumpkin seeds from the previous year would actually become 6 plants. And that these plants would bring countless flowers and pumpkins. The neighbor had a small, puny Hokkaido pumpkin on her plant .

But pumpkin can be stored. So we’ll always have something delicious on hand for the next while .

Only the 40 euros p.a. per car storage fee for the tires bothers me a bit - but I no longer have to lug the tires around for the conversion (my back thanks me)

Hehe, I started storing my wheels at the appropriate workshop when I moved into a house with a basement: for me and also my husband, this schlepping of dirty 235s on alloy rims was simply unreasonable. I got myself a garden shed for the bicycles and the lawn mower... the garden soil is also too heavy for carrying up and down stairs...

But pumpkin is storable.

Yes, and even without a basement

Pumpkin does not need to be stored, it simply has to be disposed of in the [Bio-Tonne]! D

I have also been pondering for a long time whether with or without. For me, there are no pros / cons. Of course, the points raised by f-pNo are by no means to be dismissed. Nevertheless, many people are probably like me, and it depends solely on the financial aspect. I currently cannot even estimate the costs, so I make it dependent on whether it exceeds my legal limit or not. (despite the slope and possibly the option for a basement). If it is not enough for a basement, then despite (only about 800m² plot size), the house will simply have 180m² living space instead of 160m².