Sharing wireless in a three story old house in SF.

So I have a lot of networking equipment, and I just moved into the bottom floor of a Flat in San Francisco. The modem is sitting in a closet on my level, and it immediately hits a switch, and a couple ethernet cables go upstairs to levels two and three (who we knowingly share the connection with).
On floor two and three, they each have their own wireless routers..
Since this is really one connection, and we're all using laptops, seems to me it makes better senses to setup wireless distribution with repeaters or hi gain antennas as needed rather than three disconnected wireless routers on three floors all pulling their connection from a single cable modem.
Was hoping to get some topology advice on what the best way to setup wifi is in a San Fran multi level flat setup..
I have plenty of non apple routers, and I know the routers upstairs are airports of some variety.. I also own a belkin repeater and dlink hi gain antenna, all sitting boxed from previous living situations.

Since you have Ethernet available on all three levels, my suggestion is to use your 802.11n AirPort Extreme Base Station (AEBSn) as the main Internet router connected directly to the modem. In turn, connect the Ethernet cables for both the 2nd & 3rd floor to the LAN ports on the AEBSn.
On both the 2nd & 3rd floors place a wireless router or access point and connect them to the Ethernet cables coming from your AEBSn. Be sure to configure each of these routers as bridges and if all routers will be operating in the 2.4 GHz radio band, set them at least 3-5 channels apart.
If you don't want to "roam" between floors, have each router create a wireless network with a unique Network Name/SSID and use different passwords for wireless encryption.
The primary drawback of this network configuration is that the entire network is on the same subnet. That would mean that if file/printer sharing is enabled on any computer connected to any of these router they will be able to "see" each other. So unless you have any issue with that, this would most likely be the simplest solution with the best bandwidth possible.

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