The external basement stairs don’t actually need the bend; the planner probably thought nicely: that it has its exit covered and from there you can comfortably branch off either towards the car or towards the garden. The trees in the planned street have their gap elsewhere than in your plan where the carport has its driveway. Parking one behind the other is inconvenient – unless the second car is purely to not be tied to the house when the first car is away, as you wrote 11ant. If, however, you have a She car and a He car, that leads to constant maneuvering.
That’s exactly how it is planned, we only have one car and actually do not want a second one in the long run (if at all, only in an emergency as you write 11ant), the building area is located so that there is a bus/tram connection to the city (about 20 minutes to downtown), shopping facilities available, school, daycare, etc. all reachable by public transport. We don’t want to play the classic taxi driver for the kids.
I would put the planning with a basement to the test.
Actually, you want 4 bedrooms upstairs + bathroom. Plus guest room + guest shower and a family room. The rooms in the basement are being re-planned out of desperation into normal rooms – slope or no slope, they remain dark and the conversion of the basement to living space is probably not included in the price.
That’s not true, we always definitely wanted a basement because we don’t like the storage option being just in a utility room on the ground floor; furthermore, my husband wants a small workshop in the basement. Maybe I expressed myself poorly in my initial post.
Sure, if the plot were bigger and there was enough space for a shed, etc., we might have reconsidered it, but as it is, we want to invest the part we save on the plot into our dream of a house with a basement (not to mention a higher resale value should it ever become necessary).
Overall, you are of course right, the basement entails extra effort and extra costs, but we appreciate it because it provides more space, which in the end means more outdoor space for a garden/terrace, etc.
The eaves height is also not yet fully used, or do I have a distortion in my vision?
I’m with Katja.
The basement is a last resort that actually was not really wanted that way.
I would exploit above ground what is possible. Knee wall, roof pitch, somewhat bigger.
That’s true, there is still room for improvement, the roof pitch is already at 38°, which is the maximum allowed by the development plan. We have already agreed on raising the knee wall with the building authority (but as mentioned, this is still missing in the first draft plan).
And as I said, for us the basement is actually not a last resort but a dream that we would like to fulfill and also know that it entails immense additional costs.