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===English basement=== [[File:brownstonebasement.jpg|thumb|[[Townhouse]]s with [[English basement]]s]] An [[English basement]], also known as a daylight basement or lower ground floor, is contained in a house where at least part of the floor goes above ground to provide reasonably-sized windows. Generally, the floor's ceiling should be enough above ground to provide nearly full-size windows. Some daylight basements are located on slopes, such that one portion of the floor is at-grade with the land. A walk-out basement almost always results from this. Most daylight basements naturally result from raised bungalows and at-grade walk-out basements. However, there are instances where the terrain dips enough from one side to another to allow for 3/4 to full-size windows, with the actual floor remaining below grade. In most parts of North America, it is legal to set up apartments and bedrooms in daylight basements, whether or not the entire basement is above grade. Daylight basements can be used for several purposes—as a [[Garage (house)|garage]], as maintenance rooms, or as living space. The buried portion is often used for storage, [[laundry room]], hot water tanks, and [[HVAC]]. Daylight basement homes typically appraise higher than standard-basement homes, since they include more viable living spaces. In some parts of the US, however, the appraisal for daylight basement space is half that of ground and above ground level square footage. Designs accommodated include split-foyer and [[split-level home]]s. Garages on both levels are sometimes possible. As with any multilevel home, there are savings on roofing and foundations.<ref>Woodson, R. Dodge. Build Your Dream Home for Less. Cincinnati: Betterway Books, 1985, pp 60–61.</ref><ref>Zeller, Dirk. Success as a Real Estate Agent for Dummies. Wiley, 2006, p. 209</ref>
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