Do you have a basement or an attic ?

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It's a common thing around here to have a basement . In our old house , we had an attic of sorts , you had to walk in it bent over it was so short. This house has a big walk in attic - with a few upgrades , it could be an apartment. Now it's just a catch all for my "stuff" ...LOL I don't know what I'd do without that storage space. Our basement has the washer ,dryer and furnace with a pretty nice workshop .

I always wondered about houses in different parts of the country or world. How's your basement /attic/storage situation ?
 

Attic.....not tall enough to stand completely straight up in.

I always wanted a house with a finished basement, pool table and wet bar......maybe in my next life.
 

We had both an attic & basement in the house up north I grew up in. Here in the south now, I only have an attic. I just cleaned everything out of it last weekend, in fact. Empty now. If the attic is not climate controlled and then with temps reaching in the 100's, it's pretty useless to store anything up there.
 
In CNY it's common to have a basement and also an attic in older homes.

These days the attic in new homes has been replaced by a FROG - finished room over garage.

When I was little we lived in my grandmother's big old farmhouse and the cellar walls were flat stones with no mortar between them and it had a dirt floor, a very scary place for a little country bumpkin.

Now I live in an apartment with no additional storage, I'm beginning to see that as a blessing.
 
No basement for us. Florida and basements don't go well together. The only attic we have is over the garage area and it's more one that you just stick your head into and stuff something up there. The rest of the house has vaulted ceilings.

The house in which I grew up had a very scary basement, like something out of a cheap horror movie. Mom kept all the veggies and fruits she canned in mason jars down there on shelves and going down to get a jar of green beans was not a chore I wanted.
 
Both. A bright basement and an dark attic.
It is partially finished. The family room with a wood stove is finished but the laundry room and workshop aren’t. The attic is nothing worth mentioning. Lol
 
For the most part Hawaii homes do not have basements in the sense that mainland homes do, just because it's really difficult digging through hard lava.
 
We have a full basement, which we just use basically for storage. I did partition about 30' of it off shortly after moving here for a large garage, but the other 45+ft. is just shelving and my home gym, etc. One of the granddaughters is in the process of remodeling and moving into an older house, and they brought all their "excess" over here to store until their house is finished.
 
No basements in Houston; water table is too high. Most homes are on concrete slabs. We have a huge, walk-around attic. It could be another living area since it has two big dormer windows. But it's just storage and the HVAC stuff.
 
Basement? Attic?
Hell, I'm happy to have a main floor
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No basement and no attic, but in Los Angeles the weather is mild enough that a lot of people (us included) use our garages for storage and park our cars in the driveways.
 
Of course, no basement here in Texas or in Louisiana where I used to live. No attics here in the condos but when I lived in a regular house we had attics and used for atorage.
 
Some very old stone homes in Australia have cellars ,that were used to keep,foods preserved / Cool in summer months .
Ive seen a few including one that was in a old limestone farm house I lived in for 10 years but all,the ones I’ve seen were only very small
just guessing about 8-9 foot square
The one that was in the home I lived in was used to,store jars of jams and preserved fruits .it was very musty
 
No, sadly, they're not common in Southern California. I always envied my sister when she lived in Yakima, Washington, she had a large basement and it was the center of activity in her house. I suppose, living in earthquake country, basements aren't a really good idea? We also don't have an attic per se. I guess it's more like a crawl space. Oh well, the price one pays to be snow free :cool:. Don...
 
Macfan said:
No, sadly, they're not common in Southern California. I always envied my sister when she lived in Yakima, Washington, she had a large basement and it was the center of activity in her house. I suppose, living in earthquake country, basements aren't a really good idea? We also don't have an attic per se. I guess it's more like a crawl space. Oh well, the price one pays to be snow free :cool:. Don...
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Same here in Fresno...no basement and not really an attic but that is where my HVAC system is.

My water heater is in the garage bolted to the wall.
 
When my siblings and I were growing up,our house had both an attic and basement.
I live in a co-op apt building complex,the basement in our building has seperate lockers for residents.My locker space isn't big,2 people standing in it would be tight. Sue
 
We have a full cellar and small attic. Our home was built by my grandfather in 1921. When it had the old cold fired furnace furnace there was also a section of the basement sectioned off for the coal bin. Guy used to open the cellar window, stick in a chute and dump the coal directly from his truck. Used to raise a bit of dust . haha

Some of my toys from when I was a young child are still in the attic where by mother put them in boxes. I've looked at them a few over my life but always return them to their boxes. Had some electric trains up there as well but passed them along to our son.
 
This is our 9th home in 4 states that we have owned, None have had basements. In one house the attic was not high enough to crawl, I had to slither on my belly. It was a chore installing a ceiling fan in that one.
 
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