Where are the windows?

cp, in a typical northeast full basement (not walk-out) the best you get are very small windows high up on the walls. I only see one above the toilet. The emergency egress is a bulkhead on the top left corner.

If budget and set backs allow, I would do a large lightwell to bring some daylight into the basement. A windowless dark basement is not the best place to spend time in ... works well for a home theater, but I wouldn't want my study to be windowless.

Yes only the one small window in the bathroom. Top left shows a walkout to the backyard/garden. Not really sure whether I would use that room for a study. Thinking of maybe moving the home theater where the study is; and the bar with it. Then having the space where the current home theater is for study/games area e.g. Ping pong, Pool. What do you think?

I think that you are hung up on a part of the whole, not realizing that the whole is designed all together. You design all three floors together at one, along with the exterior. It all interlocks, and you are focused on one small part. An architect can think of the ramifications of a basement design choice with the second floor bathroom. You need that guy or you're going to big yourself down in all of the trees without ever seeing the forest.

An Architect thinks in 3D and works out the whole project as if it is one integrated unit........Not one space at a time.........Hire your Architect now.........

What LWO and Lampert Dias said.

A good first floor/house proper comes before, or along side of, the basement. The only things I'd set in stone (concrete) about it was that it would be walk out, and that the root cellar will be in a back corner, because that's where they have the least temperature fluctuations.

Hi all - FYI; architect has already done plans for ground and 1st floors. I asked him to also do basement plans, even though I am not planning on completing the basement after the house is completed, but am trying to plan for the future when I do complete it. This is so that they can build the foundation with the basement in mind.

Where's the pool table go?