Price for single-family house or semi-detached house - experiences?

Preferences are just that different. I wouldn't want to build without a basement. Especially with small children, I'm glad when vacuum cleaners, cleaning supplies ... are out of reach. We previously had an apartment with an unusable basement. Children's clothes, baby carrier ..., things saved for the second child, "cluttered" the children's room, drink crates piled up in the kitchen, cleaning supplies were stored in the bathroom within immediate reach of the little ones...

By the way, a basement is not necessarily just pure storage space for some junk. For example, in addition to a storage room (for food, tools, freezer, etc.) and the utility room, we also set up a music room as well as a book and fitness room. Things you can surely store elsewhere, but that would have unnecessarily cramped the above-ground living space in our case.

Regarding the "little ailments," I certainly agree with you. In this case, however, a bungalow would be the most comfortable. :-)

Always the same discussion. Can the basement opponents also stop sometimes, something like "basements are objectively nonsense" is just nonsense. Everyone likes what they like. I also built with a basement and am happy about the space. There are technical rooms, a large hobby and workshop, party and storage rooms. This way I have space in the rest of the house to store frequently used items and optimize walking paths. Apart from that, the basement was not more expensive per sqm than upstairs. Nevertheless, I also have an attic, a garage extension, and soon a hut in the garden.

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... I have only met people so far who couldn’t afford the basement, but none who consciously chose to do without it. It is and remains a matter of budget!

That is not correct.

There are people who consciously decide for and also consciously against a basement. However, it is true that the people who built basements in earlier times used them differently than is the case today. Most had kitchen gardens, and the fruits of the garden had to be stored to diversify the midday meal throughout the winter. It would never have occurred to them to misuse this valuable pantry.

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Always the same discussion. Can the basement opponents also stop saying things like "the basement is objectively nonsense"? That's just rubbish. Each to their own. I also built with a basement and am happy about the space. There are technical rooms, a large hobby and workshop, party and storage rooms. Because of that, I have space in the rest of the house to store frequently used items and optimize walking routes. Per square meter, the basement was not more expensive than upstairs. Nevertheless, I also have an attic, garage extension and soon a hut in the garden.

Yes exactly. Always the same discussion - that can't be avoided if you read along here for longer than two years. But the OP has only been here since the day before yesterday - so please a little tolerance : every few weeks the same topics are discussed again and again, that's just how it is when new members keep asking their questions! But fine that you still expressed your opinion. However, it doesn't help the OP to plan better with the costs...

Exactly, that's what I'm saying: the basement discussion, which is currently not started every few weeks but every day, does not help. You can tell someone the costs, but please do not try to talk someone out of such a fundamental decision.

Daily is probably a stretch now...
Doesn't matter. I have never participated in any basement discussions (only the alternative storage space question).

We deliberately decided against a basement. Why? The additional planned storage rooms (basement replacement) on the ground floor, upper floor, and attic would have been lost. The 3 children would probably have gotten smaller rooms, or one would have had to sleep in the basement – terrible!

So we have a pantry, broom closet, and utility room on the ground floor. – by the way, cleaning supplies are finally out of reach – but for me, it's more about "out of sight." Currently, everything is lying around somewhere because it is needed several times a day, and I certainly don't want to run down to the basement every time! Even though everything is lying around, my 3 children never wanted to know about it! A pity, actually.

On the upper floor, besides the dressing room, we also have a built-in closet in the hallway for 2 vacuum cleaners, cleaning supplies, spare toilet paper, etc. The sauna fits in the bathroom. We would never have used it in the basement! There is also an 18 sqm universal room on the upper floor: guest, office, hobby, etc.

And in the attic, we have a storage room in addition to the 2 children's rooms with their own bathroom.

The double garage, planned for 1 car, children's fleet, workbench, etc., also still exists.

Currently, we have a basement – despite a large area in one room, it doesn’t provide nearly as much quality of life. We probably spent as much on the additional replacement rooms, but we get much more out of it!