His solution was to move the inside
stairs that led down to the
basement to the back of the house, incorporating a lower
landing area that's level with the yard.
You see we had a raised bungalow home, the kind where you when you enter the home, you enter on a
landing and then there are five
stairs that go up to the main floor and five
stairs that go down into the
basement (which is only half in - ground).