How to use the basement profitably. Several life hacks from Sweden

Sweden is not famous for the architecture of the housing stock, its buildings can be called mediocre and typical rather than unusual.

Most Swedes live in prefabricated apartment buildings, which we are used to seeing in the sleeping areas of Russian cities. But even living in an apartment allows them to have their own laundry, gym and storage space.

All thanks to their amazing ability to plan absolutely everything in their life and the unspoken Yante law, which says that everyone is equal and to stand out, to exalt oneself over others is bad. Hence the rational and equitable use of basements.

In the basements of apartment buildings, the Swedes organize laundries for the whole house and pay for the electricity together.

It is necessary to make an appointment for washing in advance (planning them in the blood, well, you remember) about a week in advance. To record, it is enough to rearrange the lock cylinder with the apartment number to the desired date. Each wash takes 3 hours.

In addition to laundries, the Swedes organize places for seasonal storage of sports equipment, gyms. Most often, bicycles are stored in basements.

And they do it in the following way: whoever uses it more often puts it closer to the exit, and they do not have cases of thefts and conflicts (this is the national mentality).

In addition to places for the so-called common use, residents of the house have individual storerooms, which outwardly resemble lockers in changing rooms, but with a lattice door where they store conservation, tools, summer tires, in general, everything that we usually store on balconies and mezzanines.