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AIBU?

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

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TheCunnyFunt · 22/09/2015 20:59

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.

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highkickindandy · 23/09/2015 03:22

The kitchen looks like an autopsy room - brilliant goblinhat - not going round there for dinner then!

I don't like the stairs, I don't like the layout downstairs. Interesting though.

CheerfulYank · 23/09/2015 03:38

It's...well. Not my style at all.

Brioche201 · 23/09/2015 05:40

It looks very cheap for the size and spec although I don't know the area.

chocolatemademefat · 23/09/2015 08:27

Oooh I love it! I want it! Waaay cleaner than my house!

DisappointedOne · 23/09/2015 09:07

Utterly hideous and way too close to the outlaws for my liking I'll stick with mine.

Oakmaiden · 23/09/2015 09:41

Now, this one has the front door going into the kitchen as well, as far as I can tell. But is much more the thing.

Don't suppose anyone has £300K I could borrow?

MinecraftWonder · 23/09/2015 10:43

My stairs are in the kitchen, which didn't even register with us when we bought.

But yes, food smells do rise and so does the heat when we're cooking so the upstairs landing window gets constantly steamed up. It's a PITA and I wouldn't buy another house with stairs in the kitchen.

It looks very odd to me and I would really struggle with not having a family bathroom. On a few occasions over the past couple of years, a friend or family member has used my shower when not staying with us (bff just before she was trying a new dress on at mine as she'd come from the gym, MIL when she was having her bathroom refitted etc) and it would be a bit awkward to have to traipse them through someones bedroom to do so.

hellsbellsmelons · 23/09/2015 12:05

Jeez that's cheap.
I need to move from the South East!
That would be around £800K plus here!
I love it!

TooExtraImmatureCheddar · 23/09/2015 12:17

DH used to live in a shared house with a tiny downstairs loo and 2 ensuite bathrooms. There were 4 bedrooms and he didn't have one of the ensuite rooms. I think for a bunch of blokes who knew each other well it was ok, but for the female house-guest who had to get up earlier than the guys in the ensuite rooms it was infuriating. I used to do a sponge wash in the tiny basin downstairs, and wash my hair in it as well continually soaking the floor.

MyballsareSandy · 23/09/2015 12:21

I really like it, and can't believe how cheap it is. Can barely get a little two up, two down terrace round here for that money.

LovelyFriend · 23/09/2015 12:22

I find it strange that the garage connects to the study but not the utility room.

susiella · 23/09/2015 12:27

Oooh! Cunny I keep looking at this house on Rightmove! You must be near me, I'm in Beckingham!! 'waves'

susiella · 23/09/2015 12:28

Not that I could ever afford it, mind you.............

Boosiehs · 23/09/2015 12:36

Hideous!

Not my taste at all. Yuck.

PegsPigs · 23/09/2015 12:46

Oakmaiden that's another terrible layout too! Bedrooms off the lounge so you can't watch TV particularly loudly? And only 1 bedroom upstairs but a massive bathroom and landing? Bizarre.

bungmean · 23/09/2015 13:58

Well if you don't like my house, don't buy it then.

We like the kitchen stairs.

That is all.

derxa · 23/09/2015 14:03

Gosh bungmean, are you the owner?

CrapBag · 23/09/2015 14:05

Is it really yours bungmean or are you on the wind up? If it is then why are you selling seeing as you like it? (Genuine question, not sarcasm).

bungmean · 23/09/2015 14:15

Wind up? Moi?

Yes I am

bungmean · 23/09/2015 14:16

Yes I am on the wind up, not yes I am the owner.

I mean, great big glassy stairs in the kitchen? WTF?

derxa · 23/09/2015 14:32

bungmean You little tinker

Hoppinggreen · 23/09/2015 14:53

We are planning something similar and a neighbour has just done it, although we both have quite a large porch on the front and a downstairs loo.
Basically downstairs we will have a lounge and then ( apart from the loo and utility) one big room. We stayed in a holiday cottage with that arrangement once and it worked really well

CrapBag · 23/09/2015 14:58

Damn. That would have been good.

PassiveAgressiveQueen · 23/09/2015 15:57

oh they are so proud of their kitchen, don't want to hide it all all.

TremoloGreen · 23/09/2015 16:01

The decor is pretty bizzare. You could rejig the layout if you wanted a project, although I bet the price doesn't reflect that (no ideas about prices round there, although that house would be pretty cheap if it was in york, which I do know slightly more about).

Those stairs, though!!

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