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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are all in-law apartments in the basement by definition? [/quote]

No.  I have friends who built an addition to the back of their house.  In their dining room, they had glass patio doors that went out onto a back patio.  They removed the patio and built an addition onto the back.  On the other side of the patio doors was the grandmother's sitting/living room.  On the opposite wall (i.e. furthest from the existing house) were two doors, one went into her  bedroom and one went into her bathroom.  As you were facing her apartment from the dining room, on the right was a small galley kitchen and on the left was the extra wide exterior door that went out to a sidewalk that went around the house to the front driveway.  When they built this, they were moving her out of her apartment because of mobility issues (she was in a wheelchair) and she needed handicapped access to her apartment.  Additionally, they rebuilt the frame of the patio door to be flat so that she could wheel into the dining room to come into the main floor of the house if necessary.  This was a split level house.

I'm also seen in-law suites added to ranch houses, usually in the back.  One house had master bedroom on one side, living space in the middle and additional bedrooms off a hallway on the opposite side.  They built the in-law suite behind the living space.  That way, all living space was central to all of the sleeping/private spaces, but all sleeping/private spaces were somewhat private from each other.  If you wanted privacy you didn't do it in the central living space.[/quote]

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