What type of house would you never buy?

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Just looking at a thread where properties are being recommended for £750k. One of the houses was completely open plan downstairs which we would hate as a family. Dh likes to sit at the kitchen table and have the radio on (loudly), dc like to game and I like to watch telly in peace. Plus the dishwasher and washing machine on. So we prefer at least a couple of separate rooms. However, I can see open plan could work with small kids but I’d still want private space.

Anything that shares walls with neighbours. Sharing ceilings and floors is my idea of a nightmare.

Thatch.

Open plan.

Near the sewage works.

Shared drive of any kind.

Solid stone over 100 years old. Been there, done that.

Under the take off and landing path of an airport.

Next door to a pub.

So much rubbish being spouted about things people have no understanding of🙄

Definitely not open plan, if one section is untidy then it all looks chaotic. Also multiple narrow levels.

A metal and glass ultra modern 'Grand Designs' type house. Sweet little hamlet here in Cornwall has been taken over with them. It's heart-breaking.

No idea! They just never open them.

They were advised not to because it makes the system work a little bit harder but it’s not detrimental in any way to open them.

Pretty sure it's because they have a whole house ventilation system - that will filter all of the air in the house multiple times an hour. The air quality is amazing - the filters are full of awful stuff you'd breathe in in a normal house. Also no grotty cooking smells etc.

I eould feel bad ripping out at least part of the new kitchen. I am very kitchen particular😂 I would rather buy doer upper. Managed to find that 1 house on the market in my price range where owners were same as me woth kitchen practicalities 😂 Pure luck

Anything not detached - and probably not anything detached but still close to next door. I wouldn't buy anything without it's own parking spaces and a decent sized garden.
I actually love open plan within reason but the house would need to be big enough for extra rooms for when I want peace and quiet.

I would hate to live on one of those estates where they have crammed four bed three bath ‘executive’ detached houses onto teeny tiny plots where you have no garden and you can hear your neighbours fart.

I would also avoid a house in a rural setting on a bend, I would never sleep at night expecting the almost inevitable speeding drunk driver exploding into my sitting room.

I'd offer it for sale! the kitchen I mean. but as i said, the price would have to be right!

A new-build…….not anywhere, under any circumstances! There’s a new development close by and they’re have serious problems with every single occupied property from poorly laid carpets to gardens flooding with sewage! And this appears to be nationwide by all accounts!

However, I’d love to have enough money to have a home built on a higher plot of land, architecturally designed to my own specifications, underground rain water collection tank in the garden, all energy saving mod cons……!

Not likely to happen…….shall I start a Go Fund Me page?? 🤣🤣

It's not looked down upon. If I had no other option, I would probably. But I lived in number off different age terraces and I like peace but also occasionally want to male noise. I heard neigbours clearly in all. And I assume they clearly heard me. None of us were antisocial. Just living noise. In semi there is some escape. Though I am always bit 🙄 at most semis jpiming by maon living areas. Hallways would be better imho.
After decades in terraces, flats and semis, I absolutely sacrificed lots of nice things to push financially for detached, including moving locations.

I'd never buy a home that had only a north facing window in the main living area, no window in the bathroom, was narrow or backed on to a busy railway line.
I'd rather not have a north facing garden, only one loo or an ensuite.

My sister lives in a terraced house that you walk in off the street to the sitting room. No hallway. You can only access the back garden from the street by walking through a passage and then a neighbouring garden. I hate both of these things.

I used to quite like a townhouse arrangement but now I’m a bit older, all that traipsing up and down the stairs would be a pain.

Rural
I can think of few things worse .
As a teen we lived somewhere semi rural where travelling to school, into town, getting the last bus at 9pm maybe a 10pm one limited stops , but they were 45 minutes in between after 6pm.
It gets very wearing very quickly .

Rarely is sadly. Doer uppers around mine which needed approx 50k+ were somehow always only 20k less than good standard houses. Fucking ridiculous. That's why they sat there for months and months, in couple of cases over a year before withdrawn from market. One was 5k less, wasn't touched since 80s and priced 5k under the same build near but fully done up. 🤦 Never sold.
And people say younger people are not willimg to take one doper uppers😂 nah. We not shmucks, that's all.

New kitchen house owners never seem to price for "yeah we messed up and Howdens didn't stop us"

I think the main thing I hate is inconvenience, so miles from shops, places I like to go. So urban or suburban rather than the countryside. Although some suburban parts of London are massively convenient for country life or city life. Still can catch a night bus if you are out very late but the garden centre, country pub, deer park, country walk is on your doorstep.

Also an issue with teenagers as have to drive them everywhere and pick them up. Means that you have interrupted evenings and can’t have a glass of wine.

See for me I'm happy to do that any time of day as I'd rather know where dd is. I think I worry too much.

something was not right there with that heating. nearly 2 years into air to water heating. my electric bills yes are high however when I sat down and compared to electric bills in previous house and added how much I spent on oil and coal aswell currently house has cost me 1500e less that older house previously. plus new house is 1000 square feet bigger. Next year will have solar panels and should be even cheaper

Wouldn’t buy new builds, anything with something shared (like a driveway or access road), anything with restrictions - so listed or similar.

If I were to buy another house it would be detached, I don’t mind open plan as long as there is at least one other separate reception room.

Must have off street parking and a garage or large outbuilding for storage, preferably a double garage.

don’t like stairs in the lounge, I need a hallway. Access to the rear of the house without having to walk through the house.

Has to have some kind of front garden space as I don’t like a door straight onto the pavement.

I have everything I need in my house other than it’s a semi and I’d like a bigger garden. So that would be my next move if I were to go house hunting.

on an estate

no parking

terraced/semi detached (depending on noise sound proofing/insulation).

flat (noise/maintenance charges)

flood area

thatched roof

flat roof

I yearn for a 3 story house with a 1st floor living room. But for practical reasons want a living room with glass doors to the garden.

I would never buy on a main road. Wouldn't want the traffic or the footfall.
Or a village. I like the idea of less people but prefer city.
Or a flat because of too many, possibly noisy neighbours.
Or a kitchen / living room combo. This is my all-time pet hate. Worsened if it has a kitchen island. I loathe those!
No houses with only a downstairs bathroom. They predominate in my area and I spent a year looking for a house with an upstairs bathroom.