A storey (British English)[1] or story (American English)[2] is any level part of a building with a floor

that could be used by people (for living, work, storage, recreation, etc.). Plurals for the word are
storeys (UK) and stories (US).

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A two-storey house or home extension is sometimes referred to as double storey in the UK,[4] while
one storey is referred to as single storey.[5]

Overview

Houses commonly have only one or two floors, although three and four storey houses also exist.
Buildings are often classified as low-rise, mid-rise and high-rise according to how many levels they
contain, but these categories are not well-defined. A single-storey house is often referred to,
particularly in the United Kingdom, as a bungalow. The tallest skyscraper in the world, the Burj
Khalifa, also has the greatest number of storeys with 163.[6]

The height of each storey is based on the ceiling height of the rooms plus the thickness of the floors
between each pane. Generally this is around 4.3 m (14 ft) total;[citation needed] however, it varies
widely from just under this figure to well over it. Storeys within a building need not be all the same
height—often the lobby is taller, for example. One review of tall buildings suggests that residential
towers may have 3.1 m (10 ft 2 in) floor height for apartments, while a commercial building may have
floor height of 3.9 m (12 ft 9.5 in) for the storeys leased to tenants. In such tall buildings (60 or more
storeys), there may be utility floors of greater height.[7]

Additionally, higher levels may have less floor area than the ones beneath them (e.g., the Willis
Tower).

In English the principal floor or main floor of a house is the floor that contains the chief apartments;
it is usually the ground floor, or the floor above. In Italy the main floor of a home was traditionally
above the ground level and was called the piano nobile ("noble floor").

The attic or loft is a storey just below the roof of the building; its ceiling is often pitched and/or at a
different height from that of other floors. A penthouse is a luxury apartment on the topmost storey
of a building. A basement is a storey below the main or ground floor; the first (or only) basement of a
home is also called the lower ground floor.
Split-level homes have floors that are offset from each other by less than the height of a full storey. A
mezzanine, in particular, is typically a floor halfway between.

Numbering

Countries numbering floor system

European scheme

North American scheme

Both schemes

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Floor numbering is the numbering scheme used for a building's floors. There are two major schemes
in use across the world. In the first system, used in such countries as the United States, Canada,
China, Japan, Norway, Russia, states, the number of floors is counted literally; that is, when one
enters a building through the ground-level front door, one walks quite literally on the first floor; the
storey above it therefore counts as the second floor.[8] In the other system, used in the majority of
European co at ground level is elevation), the first basemen continues sequentially as