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2016-10-27 15:12:08
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Moreover, as I said, I am not a fan of basements. I just don’t like the feeling and don’t feel comfortable in basements.
Me neither. My first house had a basement, not even a coal cellar... But I was reluctant to go down – that atmosphere feels suffocating. I tried to make everything nice, yet I hardly used the storage cabinets. Boxes that went down were never opened again. Besides, I am lazy and dreaded every trip down the stairs.
By the way, a basement doesn’t protect against cluttering the garage. As several people here have already said: it’s simply a matter of personality, some tend to clutter, others don’t. And those who tend to clutter don’t stop at the garage, even if there is a basement.
Well said!
I also admit to currently having a garage, in front of which my husband’s car is parked. But that’s due to having to store something in the medium term. That will disappear again in due course, so the car will have space again. There is a difference in that a garage can occasionally be repurposed to store bulky waste etc. – with a basement you can’t do that in reverse, unless a garage was integrated into it; but that’s not the topic here. I don’t know anyone who tidies up a cluttered basement from time to time: whatever is brought down stays there until moving out.
If an active family with several members uses a basement to gain extra rooms, I find a basement completely fine. But to keep extra rooms just for storing put-away things – I can’t understand that.
And when you’re older, you also like having the washing machine and vacuum cleaner within a few steps.