Scout
2019-12-20 14:37:59
- #1
Well, with a recessed top floor and if being lazy about stairs (2 floors are probably enough), I would turn necessity into a virtue: a two-story "Tuscan villa" and make the usually common hipped roof attic into a shed roof, which might be set back a bit so that the recessed top floor requirement is met. Up there would then be the basement replacement rooms (storage, connections, heating, guest room). A roof is needed anyway, and a shed roof is generally the most cost-effective version of such. And there remains enough space for these rather rarely used rooms, which are also better lit than in a relatively expensive basement. Win-win.