To think the layout of this house (especially downstairs) is a bit odd?

[TheCunnyFunt]

The hall leads straight into the kitchen, and the stairs are in the kitchen so all the cooking smells will go upstairs. I'm surprised that in a house of this size there isn't a 'central' hall that has lots of doors leading into all the rooms. There is no family bathroom, 4 en suites and a downstairs loo. And I wouldn't have put the internal door to the garage in the study, I would've put it in the utility room myself.

The study won't necessarily be a study. It'll be a spare room of some sort labelled as a study for the floor plan. Looks better than "junk room" or tool room or something if they use the garage just for cars. They have doors on the landing for the kitchen smells too.

I like it! Someone lend me the money

I can't see how those stairs comply with the building regs - where is the protected route out . It must have a sprinkler system built in or no building regs approval.

Sorry, that's all I can think about!

This house is very close to where I live... I know it. I remember it being built.

The village of Kexby is nice, sleepy and quiet.

No sorry- far too many ugly features for me. Pretty from the outside, but a bit too Peter stringfellow for me.

The kitchen looks like an autopsy room, hate the units and floor- I couldn't live with the stairs, Chinese slate ( floor tiles?) as a fireplace, horrible circular shower, very badly landscaped garden.

Has already dated badly.

Porch leading to kitchen sounds great. Everything good happens in the kitchen. Smells going upstairs wouldn't happen with a strong fan. I agree about bathrooms though I'm not a fan of ensuites.

The stairs being in the kitchen wouldn't be a huge issue as it's clearly the dining part of the kitchen. It's not like they're in between the cooker & the fridge .

I really don't like the ultra modern look of either the stairs/dining area or kitchen however. It's really cold and impersonal.

I could live with only en-suites, as there is a downstairs loo too.

Upstairs it's a nice house. Downstairs it's meh.

I don't like the lack of family bathroom.

Also loads of halogen ceiling lights- was the house designed by someone older?

Thenightsky you're not far from me then, I am in Gainsborough!

We only have en-suite bathrooms, with a loo in the bootroom for guests. The house was built by an American, maybe it's an American thing?

When we were house-hunting, one house had a completely baffling layout. Practically my entire office was to be found over my shoulder craning to work out where the actual fuck the front door was and why on earth was the hall there?!

We went to view it just so we could scratch the itch.

And then we bought it.

It confuses newcomers but it's brilliant to live in.

BOOK A VIEWING.

That house is seriously fugly. Loads of space an' all, but can you imagine, if you have either DC or dogs, the hours of your life you would spend wiping sticky marks off the glass down the sides of the stairs?

I grew up in a house that did have open plan stairs (wooden) ...
All the crumbs/bits/dust stick to your feet (especially from hard floors) and then walk up the stairs and fall through the gaps and coat whatever is underneath - so that plant underneath will get filthy...
You can't really have anything underneath - unless you are a domestic goddess or have a daily cleaner - a nightmare to keep clean.
After a few years my dad blocked the back of the steps to try and stop the falling debris. A few years later he boxed them in altogether to make an under stairs cupboard -which was more useful than the space...guess they have a utility though -although I am a great believer in you can never have too much storage ...(cupboards to hide away clutter)
Actually thinking about it if you were gardening/or had DCs playing in the garden etc they would have to go round to the front to come in through the garage/front door ...or you would have a pile of mucky shoes next to the kitchen doors...
It is a weird layout ...

Those hard floors look clattery and, in some places, absolutely lethal.

The placement of the stairs is rubbish. I'm not a fan of stairs going into the livingroom, but how can you do surreptitious early morning or late night cooking/baking without attracting the attention of the kids, upstairs?

I really like it and it would work well for us as a family. I think an on suite for each bedroom is a great idea. Great garden.

God that's fugly. And why is there a massive patch a mud in the garden (and more perplexingly, a close up photo of it) ?

Hundreds of bathrooms and a glass staircase just mean you have a cleaner who hates you. I'd rather not

Oh! It's a veg patch? Where are the paths? And why did I write 'patch a mud'? Perhaps I'm in Little House on the Prairie and I hadn't realised ...

If I had the money I'd buy it just to put it right

The porch needs to stand out more as the entrance and does the utility room really need an outside door?

There is not enough contrast in the colours used on the exterior.

Inside is a complete waste of a lovely amount of space.

The slightest bit of liquid on that kitchen floor and you'd slip over.

Not my style at all.

And I've spotted the snag with each of the rooms having an ensuite - only one of them has a bath in it.

I actually quite like that layout. Would suit us quite well. DH could come in from a soggy dog walk, leave said grubby hound in the utility room to dry off while keeping it company/working in the study and pausing occasionally to go and polish his other woman motorbike in the adjacent garage.

It's definitely odd. I wonder if it's built in the footprint of the original house on the site. I take it they are not really gardeners - what's with all the pots on bricks?

YouTheCat

You can get books with house plans in them? Any titles you'd recommend? Actually serious.

YouTheCat for a second there you had me worried. I thought 'an en suite fetish' was some kind of conveniently located sex dungeon.