Hello,
My partner and I are need to move and our budget is very tight. The town we would like to live in tends to be very expensive but if we live there we can get rid of our car which will help the budget a lot. Yesterday we went to look at a place which is in a perfect location, right opposite a lovely plaground, moor and other nice areas to play and walk, five minutes walk from a very good nursery and with a little garden. In some ways it's ideal but it's just very tiny - a two up, two down old-fashioned cottage (but refurbished). The kitchen is much smaller than I thought but we could fit a drop-leaf table in and eat there. The fridge-freezer is in the (small) living room) because there just isn't space in the kitchen. The bathroom is soo small - a narrow bath and the room itself just has enough space next to the bath to get in, pretty much! It has a good size main bedroom and a really small second bedroom. Other than that there's the front room which again is small but manageably so.
My question really is, is 580 sq feet with such tiny rooms going to be enough for a family of three? My partner and I will both be working so we won't be there all the time although I do have the school holidays off work. It's within our budget in the area we want and the garden, although also very small, is a bonus. I can see some positives about living small-scale but this really is quite tiny! If we don't go for it soon I suspect it will be gone but I'm having trouble deciding. It's not quite what we want long-term but for renting for a year or two maybe it's ok? Has anybody got experience living somewhere like this as a family, could it work? I'm leaning towards yes simplly because on our budget there's bound to be some doenside but keep having doubts.
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Tiny cottage 580 sq ft - too small for two adults plus toddler?
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Moominmamma86 · 13/05/2015 09:16
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