I know new build photos are aspirational but surely this extreme should be banned?

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www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/123729626

The entrance hall in the photo is practically the size of the living room on the floor plan. I don't know where to start on the image of the kitchen.

Haha, we also have one bathroom between 4 of us. One of my friends once said something to me like “do you remember when we were kids and no one had ensuites!!” I sometimes think it would be handy to have an ensuite but when I’m cleaning the bathroom I glad I only have one of them!

Also, the 4 bedroom house has 3 bathrooms upstairs! I’d much rather have more storage or bedroom space, or an office in today’s wfh world

The show hose has the hallway www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/118058561#/floorplan?activePlan=1&channel=RES_NEW

Very often I've seen those en suites end up becoming inconvenient wardrobe/storage areas with a toilet pan right in the way.

Looking at the floor plan, the £365k semi doesn't have a large hallway at all.

You have to get clever with kallax units! There’s no useable loft in most new builds so you keep clutter to a minimum

I haven't really checked this out but if it is really misleading you could always complain to the Advertising Standards Authority.

www.asa.org.uk/make-a-complaint.html

If only you could get a 2 bed house with garden for 365k in London.

That hallway is from a different house. It does not correlate to the floor plan in any way. They should not be allowed to use photos to sell a house if they are not of the actual house

That's good to know but guessing you meant it for a different thread

I completely agree - what on earth is the point of using photos of a massive, swanky house to advertise a nice enough but fairly bog-standard semi?

That is bloody tiny, no room for wardrobes, no cupboard for the coats and other crap downstairs and why the need for three loo's in a pokey 2 bed ?

When are house designers going to realise that not figuring out what happens when you open a door makes a huge difference to the useable space in a room. Ok sliding doors aren’t perhaps the nicest thing to have in living areas, but nothing wrong with thinking how to use them in bedrooms , bathrooms and en-suites.

@IrisVersicolor sorry but that's a ridiculous thing to say. Move to MK or many other places and stop moaning.

I had a new build house like that. 2.5 bedrooms (one was a small boxroom) but two bathrooms and three loos. It was very efficient with its limited space. My mum's partner called it a "very nice living unit". Damned with faint praise. But it was actually a nice house and it was good having two showers - we only have one in our bigger but older house now. You just couldn't have much stuff. We had a summer house (shed) in the garden which I see from Rightmove the most recent owners have taken away and replaced with a garden office.

I agree. The photos are very obviously of a totally different house (size and layout). I know they use stock photos, but what they've done there is extremely misleading - they could have done some stock photos of one of the smaller houses on the development.

You just couldn't have much stuff. We had a summer house (shed) in the garden

Given that the developers can't even bring themselves to mention the garden, nor to include it in the photos nor the floorplan I'm guessing it's just about big enough for the bin!

(I mean if there was a bit of space in the garden your best bet would be to add value by extending and putting in an additional bathroom )

It's clearly not that house, it's more to show typical fixtures and fittings. I don't agree they should do this at all, although presumably they will have a show home somewhere.

There is no need for more toilets than bedrooms, but that seems to be the norm nowadays . We're in a 5 bed with the same amount of bathrooms as that house. We're extending to a 6 bed and our architect suggested we have 5 bathrooms and a downstairs toilet. I mean, wtf?

I assume there's a shower over the bath, rather than the only shower being in the ensuite.

It's ridiculously expensive for what it is though.

The small house pictured has what I would call a very small porch with a toilet off it, it doesn't have a hallway

If your aspiration is to live in Milton Keynes, your aims in life differ greatly from mine.

I quite enjoy having my wagamamas delivered by a robot, thank you.

MK is OK and easy to get round with all the roundabouts and grid system, there are some strange looking houses though, I saw some the other week with like half a roof, they were higher one side with a roof that sloped towards the back, they just looked a bit strange

2 ensuites is to enable both bedrooms to be rented out (or a couple to have a lodger). Unless sold as a BTL will probably be up for sale again quite quickly when the owners move and realise how impractical it is.

Hanslope is a very nice village on the outskirts.of MK.